To: TigerPaw who wrote (24738 ) 6/10/2003 6:09:56 AM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) | Respond to One tip-off to the value of the mobile plants, the intelligence officials said, was the fact that one of the trailers was captured while it was being towed by a heavy equipment transporter truck, usually used for moving heavy armored vehicles. The Kurd who was driving the truck, who later escaped, told U.S. troops manning a roadblock in northern Iraq that he'd stolen the rig for the value of the truck and cared nothing about the load it was carrying.The equipment , the intelligence officials said, closely matched that described by a U.S. intelligence source - an Iraqi chemical engineer who managed one of the mobile plants - as early as 1995.The officials strongly suggested that their primary and backup sources weren't affiliated with the Iraqi National Congress, an organization of Iraqi exiles, or with its leader, Ahmad Chalabi, who other intelligence analysts and American diplomats said had provided fabricated, exaggerated and false information to U.S. officials and to media organizations. Sodium azide is the chemical that powers auto crash airbags. It produces a very quick reaction with the primary biproduct of Nitrogen gas. It is a fast and efficient way to a high pressure gas stream that will not burn, explode, or be toxic to the breathers, which is why millions of Americans trust their lives to it every day.
