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-Lurid Crime Tales-
China Detects Deadly Sarin Gas At Border With North Korea
2009-10-11
From RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service Event Description

"China has detected deadly nerve gas at its border with North Korea and suspects an accidental release inside the secretive state, a Japanese news report said Friday. The Chinese military is strengthening its surveillance activities after detecting the highly virulent sarin gas in November last year and in February in Liaoning province, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported, citing anonymous sources from the Chinese military. Sarin gas, which was developed in Germany before World War I, was used in the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway by a doomsday cult.
One now is forced to wonder if there was a connection between The Secretive North Korean Regime and the doomsday cult, in which case the attack would have been an unnoticed and not terrible effective act of war.
The Chinese special operations forces found 0.015-0.03 microgrammes of the gas per cubic metre when they were conducting regular surveys while there were winds from the direction of North Korea, the report said. China suspects that there were some experiments or accidents in its neighbouring country, it said."
Posted by:Mullah Richard

#12  Wouldn't that be a nice suprise for Isreal!

No, Spomong Speaking for Boskone7175. Every Israeli household has had gas masks and a sealed room since 1991, when Saddam Hussein though it would be clever to threaten to lob war gas missiles at them. You'll note that in the end Saddam Hussein was hanged and his entire line wiped out, leaving only a few daughters of no account whatsoever.

As for Israel -- and please note the spelling, the -el ending indicates the possessive "of God", analogous to the Arabic -ul, -ullah, just as the country name Saudi Arabia indicates that Arabia that belongs to the Saud clan -- given that the country has elected a very strong prime minister, one who sees no reason to indulge the desires of an American president clearly more interested in the Muslim view of anything, I have no doubt that should Iran try anything so stupid as to shoot off poison gas missiles, Tehran and a number of other interesting bits of Iranian real estate will find themselves falling to rubble before the missiles are blown out of the air by the Israeli anti-missile missiles as they near the border. Google Osirak and Syrian nuclear facility, both of which experienced the same fate.

Please, please tell me that you are an outlier at the left end of the intelligence curve in St. Paul, Mr. Spomong Speaking for Boskone7175.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-10-11 23:11  

#11  Start by realizing that the Norks are the ChiCom's cat's paw. Given the disaster of the Norks' economy, everyone knows that they cannot attack the South, much less count on a square meal a day between now and springtime. Further, their nukes were all fizzles and their missiles all misfired. Not much of a threat to anyone. Now expect a bunch of crap about chem/bio capability from this bag of crazy called North Korea discovered and verified by their good ole pals the ChiComs.

Ooo, scary. Just in time for Halloween.
Posted by: rammer   2009-10-11 22:56  

#10  ION CHINA WMF > RUSSIAN "INDEPENDENT" NEWSPAPER: CHINA'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY MILITARY PARADE REVEALS CHINA HAS NOT RULED OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR AGZ RUSSIA. China is "ready" or desirous of expansion into RUSSIA + KAZAKHISTAN, NOT SOUTHEAST ASIA.

* SAME > INDIAN ARMY CHIEF: CHINA IS TRYING TO INTEGRATE MYANMAR [Burma] "INTO ITS FOLD", in order to counter India's "LOOK EAST" policy [Strategic Encirclement of India]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-10-11 21:32  

#9  For all we know, it was poor crop spraying. Not sure I would rely on Chinese Peoples Liberation Army to be able to tell the difference in organo phosphates.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2009-10-11 20:49  

#8  Dummies!!....

Think Iran! They're "Good Buddies" with the NORKs.

Perhaps the Iranians are learning to handle NORK supplied nerve gas missle warheads, and somebody goofed.

Happens you know!

Wouldn't that be a nice suprise for Isreal!
Posted by: Spomong Speaking for Boskone7175   2009-10-11 19:17  

#7  Gromky -

They have plenty of bullets to stop border crossings, no need for WMD.

I'd bet my rent check that the vast majority of the Nork Army is in Barney Fife loadout at any given time. Troops with ammo can cause problems when they decide they don't want to play any more.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2009-10-11 17:22  

#6  Pretext for Chinese troops to cross the border?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-10-11 16:53  

#5  prolly kimchi gas
Posted by: Frank G   2009-10-11 16:38  

#4  They have plenty of bullets to stop border crossings, no need for WMD.
Posted by: gromky   2009-10-11 16:26  

#3  Interesting that the Chinese let this report out.

Interesting.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2009-10-11 15:28  

#2  #1 I bet the dumbasses were using it to stop border crossings. Posted by: Anonymoose

My suspicions exactly, Moose. Probably someone important enough to kill 200-300 other people to stop.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-10-11 14:40  

#1  I bet the dumbasses were using it to stop border crossings.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-10-11 14:09  

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