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Chemical Weapons Putin used Fentanyl & US chemical weapons program by Sophia Barkat Putin used Fentanyl (lethal doses) to gas hostages and armed soldiers from Chechnya who had taken people hostage alike in a theater last year. There's one use of chemical weapons right there. Read about Fentanyl: http://www.streetdrugs.org/fentanyl.htm Read some links about Putin's use of Fentanyl in attack: http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,823024,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/30/moscow.gas/ http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2600 Fentanyl is so controversial the US Military press release followed to announce it had none and no such lethal weapon for using on crowds: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/021030-gas1.htm By Trevor Batten Re: Sophia's Post - Putin used Fentanyl & US chemical weapons program Interestingly, tear gas also falls into the same category (chemical weapon) - I seem to remember reading that there wasss a dispute because the US Army was considering its use to reduce civilian casualties. For some strange combination of legal circumstances, it seems tear gas is acceptable when used by police to control crowds but not when used by an army to control another army. Certainly, the resolution of the hostage situation was a total screw up. However, I don't think such an incident is really comparable with the "highway of death" created by the US armed forces (apparently by attacking the retreating Iraqi army -a kind of arial "shooting in the back" with hi-tech weapons). I also don't believe the Moscow theatre incident compares with the use of "daisy cutters" and god knows what against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan -and goodness knows what for destructive fiiirepower was used in Iraq. Today BBC TV showed the looted facilities of the Iraqi security services (with locals desperately searching through the ruins in search of information for their loved ones). If America is serious in stating: "We believe in justice and the promotion of the rule of law -We believe those who commit the most serious crimes of concern to the international community should be punished" then one would have thought that the securing of Iraqi government buildings and the impounding of incriminating documents was essential if any form of legal process against the previous regime was intended. However, it seems that efforts have been more concerned with destroying such evidence (via bombing or looting) rather than preserving it. The bombing of the mountains of Afghanistan and the bombing of locations in Iraq where regime members were suspected to be (note that level of "suspicion" as opposed to "proof" in all this) suggests that the American government prefers the summary assassination of those whom it accuses of crimes -rather than their legal prosecution. This seems to be contradictory to the American governments claim that they believe in the rule of law! |
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