[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Another Fearless Prediction

[brad haslett]

Roger,

Put me in for a $100 bet with any takers you are one
hundred per cent correct on your prediction and
accurate to within six months on the time frame.  

Brad Haslett
"CoraShen"


--- Roger Pihlaja <cen09402 at centurytel.net> wrote:

> Brad,
> 
> Since your news story seems to have vindicated the
> prediction I made last summer regarding smuggling
> WMD's out of Iraq into Syria & Lebanon, let me make
> another fearless prediction.  By, the way Bill, you
> are mistaken regarding the shelf life & stability of
> chemical & biological weapons.  They are both plenty
> stable enough to be transported long distances over
> the desert.  If they weren't, they would never
> survive the heat & pressure of the explosive used to
> disperse them when the warhead goes off.  Anthrax,
> for example, is a bacteria that lives naturally in
> the soil by forming spores that are remarkably
> resistant to the environment.  So-called
> "weaponized" Anthrax is actually a mixture of spray
> dried Anthrax spores stuck to the surface of
> particles of an inert low density substrate such as
> finely ground cellulose.  The trick is to get the
> particle size distribution just right so the
> particles tend to get lofted into the air, float
> around on air currents for long distances, &
> eventually get inhaled by potential victims.  In the
> moist, warm conditions inside the respiratory tract,
> the Anthrax spores spring back to life & infect the
> victim.  Chemical weapons are usually of the
> so-called "binary" type wherein the warhead actually
> contains two compartments.  Each compartment
> contains a reactive precusor.  When the warhead is
> fired, the precursor chemicals are mixed together &
> chemically react to form the final toxin, such as a
> nerve agent.  Although the final toxin may have a
> short half life, each of the precursor chemicals is
> quite stable over long periods of time.
> 
> I just heard a news story that the US State Dept has
> approved the sale of several hundred million dollars
> worth of "penetrating munitions" to Israel.  Now
> what do you suppose Israel would want with a
> boatload of bunker busters?  Unless Iran opens up
> its nuclear program to permit on-site inspections, I
> predict Israel will do a coordinated air assault to
> take out about a dozen key Iranian nuclear
> facilities all at the same time, in a scaled-up
> version of a similar operation they pulled on Iraq
> in 1985(I think that was the year?).  I predict this
> will happen in less than a year from now.  The
> United States will chastise Israel in public for
> this action; but, in private we will be thanking
> them for doing our dirty work for us.
> 
> If the Iraqi WMD's really are in Syria &/or Lebanon,
> I hope we've captured them by then.  Or maybe the
> approval of this sale of penetrating munitions to
> Israel means they've already been secured by special
> forces or some other means?  The general public may
> never hear the full story on this one.
> 
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
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