"Joe" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Joe" wrote in message
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"jps" wrote in message
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Not WMDs, fertilizer bombs. Ingredients available in large
quantities
worldwide. The same variety that took 160 innocent men, women and
children's lives in Oklahoma City by one of our own.

jps

They were not "fertilizer bombs" as used in Oklahoma City.
There was nerve gas in the mix.

An est. 80,000 people would have died, the vast majority from chemical
exposure.
80,000 dead not enough for you to considerer this bomb a WMD?



He didn't claim that the OKC bomb wasn't a "WMD". Sit closer and read
the
message again, slowly this time.



I could care less whether or not he thinks the OC bomb was a WMD.
My beef is with his statement that the Jordan bomb was not a WMD.

He is trying to downplay the significance of the thwarted Jordan bomb by
comparing it to a simple fertilizer bomb as used in OC.
The sole purpose of the explosives in *this* bomb was to spread the
chemicals and nerve agents as far as possible, to kill as many as
possible.
The Jordan bomb is a WMD.



I believe what he meant was that you can't point your finger at a commonly
available chemical and claim it's in the same category as chemical and
nuclear weapons. Of course, you could say that fertilizer-based bombs and
nuclear warheads both go "boom", but so do tanker trucks full of gasoline.