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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (575939)	5/17/2004 11:40:32 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sarin Nerve Agent Bomb Explodes in Iraq By CHRIS TORCHIA apnews.myway.com BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. Two people were treated for "minor exposure," but no serious injuries were reported. "The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found," said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq. "The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy. "A detonation occurred before the IED could be rendered inoperable. This produced a very small dispersal of agent," he said. The incident occurred "a couple of days ago," he said. The Iraqi Survey Group is a U.S. organization whose task was to search for weapons of mass destruction after the ouster of Saddam Hussein in last year's invasion. The round was an old 'binary-type' shell in which two chemicals held in separate sections are mixed after firing to produce sarin, Kimmitt said. He said he believed that insurgents who rigged the artillery shell as a bomb didn't know it contained the nerve agent, and that the dispersal of the nerve agent from such a rigged device was very limited. "The former regime had declared all such rounds destroyed before the 1991 Gulf War," Kimmitt said. "Two explosive ordinance team members were treated for minor exposure to nerve agent as a result of the partial detonation of the round." In 1995, Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult unleashed sarin gas in Tokyo's subways, killing 12 people and sickening thousands. In February of this year, Japanese courts convicted the cult's former leader, Shoko Asahara, and sentence him to be executed. Developed in the mid-1930s by Nazi scientists, a single drop of sarin can cause quick, agonizing choking death. There are no known instances of the Nazis actually using the gas. Nerve gases work by inhibiting key enzymes in the nervous system, blocking their transmission. Small exposures can be treated with antidotes, if administered quickly. Antidotes to nerve gases similar to sarin are so effective that top poison gas researchers predict they eventually will cease to be a war threat. * * *

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (575939)	5/17/2004 12:09:57 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"BTW, where is your outcry over the horrific chopping of of that guy's head? Tell me you didn't know about it... Here is the first post that I placed on the Nick Berg beheading. I posted on it before anyone here. Message 20119797 ”The videos of Nick Berg's beheading is being broadcast world wide. Nick Berg is from Philadelphia. He is described as a free spirit who has spent much of his life trecking to trouble spots to help out any way he can. He went to Iraq to help rebuild communication towers and was not affiliated with any particular organization. His executioners interviewed him on camera and promised to multiply this style of behavior and send us coffin after coffin of their executed victims... Prior to this his recent efforts involved going to Ghana to teach people how to make bricks with minimal material. Really horrendous event... I am concerned that this may be a signal to take things to a new level of intensity.” As more information has come out, I have been somewhat struck with questions about Nick Berg. He told his parents he was “looking for work.” I cannot fathom how or why someone would think they can just wander into Iraq right now without connections to some organization on one side or the other and not expect to be apprehended. I am watching to see what comes of our investigation to learn more. Regarding torture in general I have been a defender of the US govt. policy and the US military, while condemning the practice on principle. “The US has unhesitatingly condemned these acts as abhorant and disgusting, even though they were perpetrated under its own porch, by its own sons and daughters. The US remains the best example of a free and noble democracy that stands for freedom and justice for all.” Message 20126391 I have posted dozens of times on primarily left wing threads in defense of our governments leadership in this matter. You seem to think people are bound to left wing/right wing alliances when they post. Some of us just post on principle. Usually that means righteous principle founded on moral rightness and falls right of center. It makes a better filter than how your buds are posting IMO.