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To: combjelly who wrote (790799)6/19/2014 5:12:25 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1584328
 
>> The facility still contains a stockpile of old weapons, but they are contaminated and hard to transport, and officials don’t believe the militants could make a chemical weapon out of them, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion a decade ago, the U.S.-impaneled Iraq Study Group determined that the facility was sufficiently dismantled and that the remaining chemicals were useless.

Sometimes we forget that the objective of terrorism need not be killing people. It is terrorizing them. Killing is a good way of doing that, but possession deployment of even badly degraded chemical weapons even in very small quantities can be just as effective.

See: Anthrax mailed to DC politicians.