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To: Ilaine who wrote (41673)	9/3/2002 11:02:54 AM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 281500

That's what my whole town would look like if Al Qaeda got their hands on WMD from Iraq. All of us living in and around major metro areas have these same concerns but they are not the topic of this forum. Thanks, --fl

To: Ilaine who wrote (41673)	9/3/2002 11:39:10 AM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 281500

>That's what my whole town would look like if Al Qaeda got their hands on WMD from Iraq. If you don't like the bull's eye on your forehead, at least you don't have to worry that everybody for miles around has one on their foreheads, too. I am sure you are compassionate enough to not worry about just your own hide.> Al Qaeda did not need a WMD to hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Tim McWeigh made the Oklahoma city bomb out of materials that are easily available. Mustard gas and other nerve gases are such an old technology. The picture you linked reminds me of the thousands of deaths that happened in Bhopal because of a chemical leak from a factory. Attacking Iraq is not going to finish off the supply of potential weapons of destruction. What's the point of talking about WMD? Any nation with a reasonable-sized military has several technologies to kill thousands of civilians in one attack. Whether it is strategically a wise move is another question altogether. Arun