Chlorine Attacks Raise Specter of Chemical War
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By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press  CAIRO, Egypt -- When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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The chemical compound, known as TCDD, the world&#39;s most powerful dioxin, was a key part of Agent Orange, used by the United States to clear the Vietnamese jungle, and which left widespread
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Iraqi insurgents blew up a truck carrying chlorine gas canisters in an attack which sheds light on the insurgents' evolving tactics
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By Carol Eisenberg, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 13--WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff   yesterday urged operators of water and waste treatment plants to secure chemicals such as chlorine from terrorists, although they're not required to do so.
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DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, Utah  - As Nazi Germany   and Imperial Japan laid waste to Europe and Asia in World War   II, the United States ramped up production of mustard gas to   respond to any chemical attack.
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of
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A rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water of two reservoirs that supply drinking water to the city with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.
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When a train crash spilled deadly chlorine gas in Graniteville, S.C., some workers on the graveyard shift at a textile plant ran into the parking lot. It was the wrong strategy.
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Pesticides or chemicals in the  environment may be behind the steady rise in cases of childhood  leukemia, which have increased five-fold since the early 1900s,  scientists said on Monday.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--One of the most egregious pieces of unfinished business from 9/11 is the continuing vulnerability of chemical plants to terrorist attack.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, oversaw a campaign that killed tens of thousands of Kurds in the 1980s. Two others were also sentenced to death today.
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By Platteborze, Peter L  WAR OF NERVES: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda, Jonathan B. Tucker, Pantheon Books, New York, 2006, 479 pages, $30.00. Jonathan Tucker is a worldrenowned arms control expert in the fields of chemical and biological weapons who served as a U.N.
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An entire generation has come of age since a cloud of cyanide gas in central India demonstrated horrifically just how vulnerable humans are to a catastrophic chemical accident.
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A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.
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MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - While in other parts of the world, like the Middle   East, the struggle over water sources fuels armed conflicts, a  political war  is being waged in Spain over the same question.
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.