poison gas first came to the media's attention in a big way during World War One when the combatants were using chlorine gas to kill, blind, destroy the lungs, etc., of their fellow human beings. at the time, no one believed white people were capable of doing such terrible things to one another. now, everyone knows people just aren't themselves when in combat.
chlorine, being heavier than air, was perfect for trench warfare as it sank like a blanket into the trenches where the soldiers were hiding, smoking, playing cards, getting diseased and dying, and waiting to kill and be killed.
agent orange wasn't too particular about what it killed and disabled in viet nam, either.
the media forgot all about it until today, when it became necessary to whip up american emotions about saddam hussein, who reputedly has lots of gas (which everyone knows the US couldn't possibly have taught him how to make during the Iran-Iraq war several years ago), bin Laden (who despite having chronic kidney disease has evaded the best US special forces experts) and other objects of official wrath.
the problem with poison chemicals and portable nuclear weapons in the hands of other countries, and other trouble makers, is that they can be smuggled into the US pretty much the same way the CIA smuggles in drugs -- you know, the same drugs that mysteriously wind up in "highly supervised" federal and state prisons being sold to prisoners, as well as on the streets of the USA. the media doesn't talk or think a whole lot about that. and we aren't supposed to either until it's too late.
R
Disturbing scenes of death show capability with chemical gas August 19, 2002 Posted: 1946 GMT
One of the tapes obtained by CNN shows the killing of three dogs with poison gas.
From Nic Robertson CNN http://europe.cnn.com/2002/US/08/19/terror.tape.chemical/index.html
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) – Possibly the saddest and scariest tape of all those included in the archive of 64 al Qaeda tapes obtained by CNN is the one that shows the killing of three dogs.
Coalition intelligence sources who have examined this tape said it appears to be an al Qaeda experiment with lethal chemicals at the terrorist group's former Darunta camp in remote Afghanistan. The coalition sources said no intelligence agency is believed to have seen such poison-gas experiments before this tape, which is part of a large archive that sheds new light on Osama bin Laden's terror network, with images of lessons on making explosives, terrorist training tactics and previously unseen images of bin Laden and his top aides. (Full story)
The disturbing tape begins with several men, some wearing Afghan style sandals, [only available in afghanistan?] rushing from a room, shouting to each other to hurry. A dog is left behind in the enclosure, and after the men leave, a white liquid that gives off a gas is seen seeping from the left. The men's identity is never revealed.
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