How the hell did terrorists get chlorine!?! It has to be some terrorist group that has deep ties to the area and set up some elaborate smuggling system. One of the "sleeper cells" woke up - right? WRONG!
Not only can chlorine gas be purchased legally, any half-wit with a computer and a bone to pick with anybody can get the stuff delivered right to their door.
Impossible you say? Well the New York PD just did a hell of a job with an undercover investigation showing how easy it is for this dangerous gas to fall into the hands of any crackpot with a thorn in his ass for someone --
From IHT --
Undercover police secretly set up a fake company to demonstrate how easily and anonymously a terrorist could purchase chlorine on the Internet for a deadly chemical strike against the city.
A videotape — presented Wednesday at a briefing of private security executives — discloses for the first time the results of "Operation Green Cloud" — a reference to the yellow-green color of chlorine gas.
The purpose was "to assess the ease or difficulty with which a terrorist in the United States could acquire large quantities of chlorine without being detected by law enforcement or intelligence agencies," a narrator says on a copy of the video obtained by The Associated Press.
The conclusion: "At the present time, few if any barriers stand in his way." More...
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