What WMD? Part 92346

clipped from www.strategypage.com June 11, 2007: In Iraq, there have been at least ten suicide bombing attacks in the last year, that featured the use of chlorine. These were  attempts to use chlorine as a chemical weapon. So far, this have been unsuccessful, despite the fact that the first chemical weapon attack in modern history, in 1915, used 168 tons of chlorine gas. Then, as now,  chlorine proved to be an inefficient chemical weapon, and was quickly replaced by more effective ones. This is what has people worried in Iraq. The Islamic terrorists have also noted the ineffectiveness of their chlorine use in bombs, and intel monitoring has picked up lots of chatter about obtaining more powerful chemical weapons. There are still many people in Iraq, and most are Sunni Arabs, who know how to manufacture more lethal chemical agents (like mustard gas, which burns skin, eyes, or your lungs, if you inhale it).