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To: combjelly who wrote (790802)6/19/2014 5:24:00 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1584280
 
>> They put the sarin in baggies and used ballpoint pens to punch holes in the baggies. It wasn't particularly effective.

It wasn't particularly effective in terms of deaths -- seems like something like 15 were killed -- but it tremendously effective for scaring the shit out of people, which was the point.

It is not good for potential enemies to come into possession of these chemicals even though degraded.



To: combjelly who wrote (790802)6/19/2014 5:53:18 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Respond to of 1584280
 
I believe what they found was some old canisters of mustard gas, a blistering agent that had degraded and was no longer dangerous.....they had been buried since 1988. Rick Santorum and Peter Doekstra made the claim of finding them. They were quickly discredited...

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