<HTML>In a message dated 9/11/2002 7:23:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mpollak@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">[I would still like to know how chemical weapons and biological weapons came to be considered weapons of mass destruction.  If one made a list of the number of dead caused by bombing raids, I very seriously doubt Halabja would make the top 1000.  And biological weapons have so far killed not thousands or hundreds but ones.  Some day in the future one could conceive that there might be such a thing as a biological weapon of mass destruction.  But one could also conceive of death rays.  So far, neither exists.] </BLOCKQUOTE> At a peace rally in Washington Square Park last night, Martin Luther King III said that while Bush is focused on Iraq's alleged weapons buildup, the US army is planning to burn unused chemical weapons (rockets equipped with nerve gas) in Anniston, Alabama, a poor black community, this October. It might be the US that raises that biological warfare death tally. Nomi </HTML>