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To: DavesM who wrote (412701)	6/8/2003 3:30:40 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

DavesM, Re: Can you please tell me were I can find what reaction is supposed to be taking place to make these devices "hydrogen generators"? Perhaps a Google search would be in order. I don't have anything in my bookmarks on this. Good luck. When you come up with the information, perhaps you could post it here. Thanks. *** Re: Can I also find out what the Iraqi government wanted to do with hydrogen? That's a lot easier question. They wanted the hydrogen gas for military purposes. Specifically, for artillery meteorological balloons: observer.co.uk Quote: "Instead The Observer has established that it is increasingly likely that the units were designed to be used for hydrogen production to fill artillery balloons, part of a system originally sold to Saddam by Britain in 1987..... One of those expressing severe doubts about the alleged mobile germ labs is Professor Harry Smith, who chairs the Royal Society's working party on biological weapons. His view is shared by the working group of the Federation of American Scientists and by the CIA, which states: 'Senior Iraqi officials of the al-Kindi Research, Testing, Development, and Engineering facility in Mosul were shown pictures of the mobile production trailers, and they claimed that the trailers were used to chemically produce hydrogen for artillery weather balloons.' Artillery balloons are essentially balloons that are sent up into the atmosphere and relay information on wind direction and speed allowing more accurate artillery fire. Crucially, these systems need to be mobile." HTH, Ray :)