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<blockquote data-quote="susiedriver" data-source="post: 97532" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>DOD Official on the find(AP):</p><p><em>But a defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the weapons were not considered likely to be dangerous because of their age.</em></p><p> </p><p>I think for something to be considered a WMD it should be a usable weapon. I think that's what the 'W' stands for.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Also from Wiki:</p><p>The US <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">FBI</span></a> also considers conventional weapons (i.e. bombs) as WMD: "<em>A weapon crosses the WMD threshold when the consequences of its release overwhelm local responders</em>". Gustavo Bell Lemus, the Vice President of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Colombia</span></a>, called small arms WMD because bullet fatalities "<em>dwarf that of all other weapons systems - and in most years greatly exceed the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Hiroshima</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Nagasaki</span></a></em>".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiedriver, post: 97532, member: 1848"] DOD Official on the find(AP): [I]But a defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the weapons were not considered likely to be dangerous because of their age.[/I] I think for something to be considered a WMD it should be a usable weapon. I think that's what the 'W' stands for. Also from Wiki: The US [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI"][COLOR=#0000ff]FBI[/COLOR][/URL] also considers conventional weapons (i.e. bombs) as WMD: "[I]A weapon crosses the WMD threshold when the consequences of its release overwhelm local responders[/I]". Gustavo Bell Lemus, the Vice President of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia"][COLOR=#0000ff]Colombia[/COLOR][/URL], called small arms WMD because bullet fatalities "[I]dwarf that of all other weapons systems - and in most years greatly exceed the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima"][COLOR=#0000ff]Hiroshima[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki"][COLOR=#0000ff]Nagasaki[/COLOR][/URL][/I]". [/QUOTE]
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