Sarin in Fallujah
The Big Trunk at
PowerLine writes about the ampoules of supposed Sarin recently found in Fallujah.
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From The Big Trunk:
bq. Several readers have pointed out to us photograph number 2 in the USA today slide show accessible
here. The photo depicts 40 vials of suspected sarin gas found by Marines while searching a house in Fallujah. The vials were secreted in a briefcase hidden in a truck in the courtyard of the house. Reader Steve Richardson writes: "Note the German and Russian lettering on the middle pouch."
Many places are reporting that these tubes contain actual Sarin toxin but one of Power Line's readers knows differently:
bq.
Reader Dave Keasey writes:
These are what we would call "Draeger Tubes" (a brand name, though several companies manufacture them... Draeger is possibly the biggest) commonly used in industry and other places (the military, too) for measuring airborne gas concentrations. Quite ingeneous little chemical reactors, which progressively change color along their as the chemical to be measured is drawn through the tube. A specified volume of air is sucked through the tube, and the length of the color change tells you what the concentration of the chemical is. They are actually quite accurate, as long as you don't have interferences to deal with.
bq. In other words, no story here, other than the bad guys being prepared to measure gasses that might for some reason be present. Who knows... they might have been dumb enough to think that these tubes actually contained Sarin.
There is also a link to
California Yankee who has some more updates.
Posted by DaveH at November 17, 2004 3:41 PM
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