BREAKING: Vials of poison gas were COMMERCIAL SOLVENT (UN)

[doxieone]

Source: CNN

Just on TV.

It was a commercial solvent. Apparently there was paperwork nearby that made them think it was poison gas vials.

No link yet.

No link yet.

[Jacobin]

1. Gee. I'm shocked

Earlier reports said they were some nasty chemical weapons from Iraq in 1996. Apparently Saddam was stockpiling Pinesol.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. That is a chemical weapon

If you are fighting the War Against Dirt. :rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

8. Dirt = Evil

Ergo, evil = republicons in dirty diapers

[Javaman]

11. Why does dirt hate our freedom? nt

[AlCzervik]

3. well i'm moving my windex away from ant killer, i don't want to confuse anyone.

[Tesha]

4. Coming next: Nigerian "Yellow cake" found in toilet room at UN.

Well, based on the "paperwork", anyway.

Tesha

[Donnachaidh]

24. would that be the urinal hockey pucks?

:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

26. every single network was stationed at the UN to cover this fiasco--Jon Mark Karr style

[satya]

30. Can't help but wonder what REAL news we're missing in the meantime. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

34. there is a

missing college girl. MSM is trying to make her THE BIG STORY.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Well, if they had mixed bleach and ammonia, it WOULD HAVE been toxic.

[onehandle]

6. It's Windex! Run for your lives!!! nt

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Oh my, yet another 'terror' scenario turns out to be a fake!

[niceypoo]

9. Six months from now Bush will cite this as proof his wars are working

And the terraists are on the run

[Javaman]

10. You know, I was just in my garage...

and saw a bucket filled with liquid that I couldn't identify, yet nearby it was a pamphlet for DDT.

I was terrified!!! I ran around the room screaming and yelling, flailing my arms in the air!!! What in gods name should I do???

In walks my wife. She looks at me like I'm crazy. I tell her what happened. She looks at the can and from the very obvious streaks of paint on the outside determined that it was paint and the ddt pamphlet was actually an old national geographic from the 1950's.

Whew, was I relieved. My wife however thinks I tend to over react to things. I beg to differ!

:banghead:

it appears as of the fucking idiots that are supposed to keep us safe are looking for any excuse what so ever to find something to do. Can't we just fire these fucking assholes?

[Zodiak]

21. Just so you know

DDT is not very toxic to humans. You have nothing to worry about with handling the DDT. Now, its effect on the ecosystem is devastating because of its effect on the food chain, and THAT is why it is no longer used.

[Hosnon]

12. We're screwed...it seems that Al-Qaida has been training at Hogwarts and can turn

commercial solvent into poison gas.

:yoiks:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. .

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[DBoon]

13. Was it Dr. Bronner's soap?

The drummer for The Germs had some problems with this recently.....


http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/03/dr-bronner-defends-g.html

[BlueJac]

14. I will never buy KaBoom again........

it cleans well but i don't want to be called a terrorist!

[zbdent]

15. I have a bottle of bleach and some ammonia in my basement ...

should I expect the bombing to commence?

[boilinmad]

16. Clearly...

.....Iran had something to do with this :sarcasm:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. And it only took them ten years to figure this out

I feel so safe.

[liberal N proud]

19. But they got the initial Terror shock and awe from the story

That is all they wanted, keep the terror in the minds of millions. Then bury the real story when it comes out.

[HomerRamone]

20. Windex of Mass Destruction

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/windex-of-mass-destruction/?hp
Windex of Mass Destruction
By Mike Nizza

On the same day that nuclear warheads were mistakenly flying across the nation, the Web quaked for Weapons of Mass Destruction news of a different sort: “Nerve gas” was found at the United Nations in the offices of weapons inspectors who searching Iraq.

Minutes later, the story deflated when the substance in question — phosgene — was rightly identified as a chemical agent.

Today, the story deflated almost completely. According to The Daily News, tests have revealed that the liquid is not phosgene either. Rather, it “may be nothing worse than a cleaning solvent.”

Not that household cleaners aren’t dangerous as well. “In case your mom didn’t tell you, mixing bleach and ammonia can kill you,” About.com advises. The combination results in the release of chlorine gas, which causes “acute damage in the upper and lower respiratory tract” when inhaled.

[calimary]

23. Windex of Mass Destruction!?!??!!! Nominated for a DUzy, for sure!

:rofl:

One of the best EVER!!!

::applause:

[calimary]

22. Oh great. Are we going to have to give up Mr. Clean and WD40 now?

Gotta go all out for that good 'ol war on terr.

:eyes:

[soothsayer]

25. lol, same as Saddam's WMDs.

[BluePatriot]

27. LOL, a spare MSDS sheet stuck to some Windex...

...yeah I can see that happening...

[rodeodance]

28. so, they carted SH's solvent over here?

[0007]

29. If it ain't terror its Clinton!

[krispos42]

31. Substance found at United Nations not toxic, police say

Source: CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A substance removed from the United Nations office last week is not a toxic chemical agent, police and a U.N. official told CNN on Thursday.

Tests at a military facility in Maryland identified the substance as a nontoxic commercial solvent, said Paul J. Brown, deputy commissioner of the New York City Police Department.

In late August, U.N. archivists unexpectedly turned up samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant in 1996.

Accompanying paperwork identified the substance as phosgene, a choking agent used in World War I.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/un.solvent/index.html

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So, this is how we got involved in Irag?

"Look! Look! Vats FULL of phosgene! Or Pine-Sol! Phosgene! Pine-Sol! Pine-Sol-scented phosgene!

Yeah, that's it..."

:eyes:

[JohnnyLib2]

32. Kinda fits the script of the whole miserable war.

Big, bold, phony announcements

[Dark]

33. Surprise surprise.n/t

[Igel]

35. When oh when will the insidious, lying, neo-con

conspiracy known as the UN stop lying to us? When can we finally rid ourselves of such a perfidious organization, where they even lie to each other, either intentionally--or, even worse, incompetently--planting false documentation in their files, so that we don't know if we're looking at a cleaner or a toxic agent?

Was Blix involved in this? Perhaps they took the *real* phosgene. Perhaps they have all the WMD that Blix identified as unaccounted for. And it's a vast conspiracy to take over the world, and place it under the Ban. Or maybe it was an Annanal conspiracy, foiled at its source.

"In late August, U.N. archivists unexpectedly turned up samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant in 1996.

"Accompanying paperwork identified the substance as phosgene, a choking agent used in World War I."

Of sourse, perhaps it was a CIA operation? Or maybe an KCIA, an NKCIA, a PNKCIA, or maybe even a--dare we think it--OPNAADNKCIA(b) operation?.

Of course, we can't rule out that the inspectors sniffed actual cleaning agent, confused it with phosphene (some cleaners can be very, very potent), and filed at such.

So perhaps Saddam's true goal was simply to clean our clocks ... and floors and windows?


:sarcasm: