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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (4407)	4/18/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 17770

George, NATO's spokesmen IMO are real "smart-alecks" are they not? Anyone want to wager a guess as to the number of civilian deaths in Yugoslavia so far? The ammonia tanks if hit would be a real disaster- a 20,000 ton ammonia release kills everything living plant or animal that the ammonia cloud passes over- you could potentially expect 100,000+ civilian deaths in Belgrade. Since I work in the energy industry, my guess is that NATO was probably unaware of the potential consequences of bombing the petrochemical portion of a refinery complex. I know of a fertilizer plant near Houston, Texas with two large ammonia tanks. If the tanks failed catastrophically and winds were calm the plant would put out an ammonia cloud five miles wide and seventy miles long, killing everything that it hit. The plant is still there working away by the way..... We can still stop the bombing and help rebuild shattered Albanian lives with the dollars we save....And we can't leave Serbia a destroyed hellhole. That would be a continual source of instability in the region....