Suicide bombs are a daily occurrence in Iraq. We have nitrate sniffers at airports, so why not make use of such equipment in Iraq? Can they be installed on roving military vehicles? Are they only sensitive at close range? Take for instance those elemental chlorine bottles. They must come from a designated chemical processing location because it's not the same thing as Clorox bleach. There is a significant difference between Sodium Hypochlorite and elemental chlorine.
2007-04-18 17:53:35 · 5 answers · asked by The man that gets the word out 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
There are thousands of tons of explosives in Iraq that weren't secured during our efforts to validate the WMD rationale after we invaded. The Oil Ministry was secured. Saddamn's palaces and the "Green Zone" (which has been turning a little yellow) were secured. The thousands of arms caches were not, because they were all CONVENTIONAL weapons, and didn't matter since we were going to be hailed as liberating heroes anyway.
Now, to answer your question, they know where the stuff is, and we don't, so knowing where to take the swabs and how to trundle the machine around (I don't know how sensitive they are, or how level they have to be, or how much of a vacuum they require) without getting them set on fire is going to pose a problem.
I guess the situation in Iraq is just an order of magnitude more violent than it is here, which is likewise an order of magnitude higher than in most of Europe. We have madmen with two pistols, they have madmen with truck bombs. We have done a little to ban fully-automatic assault weapons, they have the constitutional right to one AK-47 per household.
I bet the chlorine tanks over there are just what we see on our roads every day in the green cylinders. God help us if it ever gets to be like Baghdad in Denver.
2007-04-18 18:08:54 · answer #1 · answered by oimwoomwio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep. Write to GWB and suggest it. Bet you find out it's a system that is in use already.
2007-04-19 00:59:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's Bush's businesses... stay out sorry ;-)
2007-04-19 01:00:39 · answer #3 · answered by Conan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not enough troops and they are outwitted by the bombers
2007-04-19 01:05:51 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
And what have you been sniffing tonight?
2007-04-19 01:21:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋