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To: Ilaine who wrote (44933)	5/17/2004 4:36:30 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

Do you consider the thwarted WMD attack in Jordan insignificant?

To: Ilaine who wrote (44933)	5/17/2004 5:31:20 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

<<You mean the one rusty ancient shell of Sarin? Don't get your hopes up, Karen, it's not significant.>> Remember when 100s of barrels of chemicals were found in camouflaged bunkers? Tested as sarin but later called pesticides? They were organophosphates that are the main ingredient in sarin gas. I live in the Cornbelt and we don't have organophosphates in the quantity found. Even without making sarin out of the chemical it's still deadly in the concentration found. I knew a farmer who got a little in his eyes in the 60's, before farm safety became an issue. By the time he made it back to the house his eyes were gone. Then if you remember the trucks from Iraq to the Baaka Valley in Syria. Trucks from the Baaka Valley to Jordan. Al-Queida guys getting caught in Jordan with 20 tons of chemical weapons? If they could have lit that one off 80k would have been killed and 160k injured, many blinded. Think if they had smuggled them into Israel and popped the cap. Would Israel gone nuclear?