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Post #5 by boots
Source ForumBooby trapped pencils? — #5
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateWed, 2 Apr 2003 - 11:51
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050523015215/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=153858
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Originally posted by Logic:
Agreed, it sounds ridiculous. They should have come up with something better than that. Like maybe say that the leaflets dropped are soaked in LSD or something like that


That might be more believable since Iraq supposedly developed hallucinogenic substances like LSD to disorient enemy troops during battle. link

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He added that Iraq's exotic weapons programs also involved the use of psycho-tropic agents similar to LSD. ?They were not meant to kill, just incapacitate, confuse,? says the inspector. This had been designed, he says, as a means to fight off rag-tag Iranian forces in the late 1980?s during the long war between Baghdad and Tehran. The other WMD weapons Iraq may still have were initially designed to ?fight off Iranian human wave attacks, they really weren't meant against a force like the U.S. military.?



What is the standard issue pencil in the military anyway? #2 lead?
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