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Chlorine Bombs Possible in Britain |
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By: Kerry Date: May 24, 2015, 8:59 pm |
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Security experts are warning now that returning jihadists may |
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deploy chlorine bombs in the UK. From the Daily Mail |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3095584/Returning-jihadis-use-chemical-… |
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The UK is facing a �growing threat� of a chemical weapons attack |
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by British jihadists returning from the Middle East, experts |
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have warned. Counter-terrorism police are focusing efforts on |
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the danger of bombs laced with chlorine. Security experts claim |
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the toxic bomb is the �chemical weapon of choice� for Islamic |
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State-trained terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq. |
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Iraqi forces found a quarter of the roadside bombs planted by IS |
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in the city of Tikrit contained the toxic substance. |
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Chemical warfare expert Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon has |
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urged ministers to tighten controls on the sale of chlorine, |
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which is readily available in large quantities in the UK. |
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He said: �As many more jihadists return to this country there is |
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a growing chance [of a chlorine bomb attack]. That to me puts it |
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through the threshold where we should look into this seriously.� |
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Chlorine � which is used to purify water and disinfect surfaces |
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� can be lethal if inhaled. |
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IS militants can get the necessary amount of chlorine from a |
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cylinder container on the back of household fridges. |
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It seems to me that the UK has been rather lax about its |
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regulations on chemicals. Certainly other countries have been |
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too; but don't forget it was British companies which sold the |
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Assad regime the precursor chemicals to make nerve gas, and the |
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British government did nothing to stop it. From nti.org |
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http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/british-chemical-exports-syria-prompt-outcry-par… |
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"The decision of the present government to give two export |
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license approvals for dual-use chemicals to Syria in January |
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2012 after the civil war had started in Syria in 2011 was |
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irresponsible," asserts a report published on Wednesday by the |
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House of Commons Arms Export Controls Committees. |
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According to the United Kingdom's Conservative Party-led |
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coalition government, British officials lacked any legal basis |
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to deny licenses for exporting sodium fluoride and potassium |
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fluoride to the Middle Eastern country. |
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Oh yeah? Why didn't they pass appropriate laws then? |
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Separately, the lawmakers criticized as "highly questionable" |
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the prior British government's approval of five sales of |
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weapon-usable chemicals to Syria between July 2004 and 2010. |
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The United Kingdom is now taking part in an international effort |
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to help dispose of Syria's chemical arsenal, following last |
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year's deadly attacks against civilians and a move by Damascus |
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to acknowledge its stockpile and eliminate it as a new member of |
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the Chemical Weapons Convention. |
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Who paid to dispose of those chemicals, I wonder? The British |
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taxpayesr and perhaps taxpayers from other countries, or the |
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companies who profited from the sales? |
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I wonder why those chemicals were destroyed if they had monetary |
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value and were legal to sell. Why not sell them again? Or |
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has the law changed finally so selling such chemicals is no |
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longer allowed? |
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I also wonder why no effort was made to recycle chlorine from |
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these refrigerators. Are fluorocarbons still being used in new |
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refrigerators? Is it being phased out? |
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