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...Speaking seriously, it's worth every cent. That was made clear as sarin gas in a week when, as war loomed in Iraq, the threat of chemical and biological attacks was very much a Hot Zone topic. Not to mention the more conventional terrorist technique of using bullets. Last week's shooting of U.S. accountants in Pakistan ? and who could be more harmless than an accountant? ? was followed by the horrendous machine-gunning of 60 tourists in Luxor, Egypt. The Islamic militants were only trying to take hostages, of course ? or so they...
CHEMICAL Saddam was mass-producing mustard gas and nerve gases before the war and had stockpiled VX, a terrifyingly deadly agent. He had also developed prototype artillery shells, rockets and bombs filled with sarin, which proved its effectiveness in a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. Between 1991 and 1994, the Special Commission supervised the destruction of 690 tons of chemical-warfare agents and more than 3,000 tons of "precursor" chemicals that could be used to make poisons. The inspectors believe Iraq still has hidden as much as 4,000 tons of precursors. They note that...
...opponents of the incinerator, a coalition of environmentalists, parents and former incinerator workers, fear that traces of sarin and mustard gases that are wafting from the stacks could cause health problems years from now. And their protests--waged in court and around military installations--have been fortified by the incinerator's shaky record. Since the test burns began last year, the Army has shut it down seven times for such problems as chemical leaks, a jammed conveyor belt and a broken hydraulic line. So far, three top officials, including the incinerator's manager, have been fired or demoted; each...
...factor in exposing veterans to poison gas during the Gulf War. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses has 60 days to examine the report, made public yesterday. While the Pentagon admitted last year that at least 20,000 troops may have been exposed to sarin, a highly toxic gas, the CIA has kept its advance warning about the chemical weapons in the Kamisiyah storage site under tight wraps since 1991. "It is, in my judgement, a cover-up of major proportions," fumed Senator Jay Rockefeller, a harsh critic of the military's reluctance to look into veterans...
Czech chemical-weapons experts, deployed along the Saudi-Iraqi border, detected sarin and mustard gas on three occasions in the war's opening days. Chemical-weapons alarms sounded in U.S., British and French units at the same time. Tuite's correlation of the detections and of satellite weather photographs taken at the time suggests that the tons of nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain...