UK Supplied Syria with Chemicals for Six Years Prior to Conflict - Polidicks

DailyMail [quote]British companies sold chemicals to Syria that could have been used to produce the deadly nerve agent that killed 1,400 people, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today. Between July 2004 and May 2010 the Government issued five export licences to two companies, allowing them to sell Syria sodium fluoride, which is used to make sarin. The Government last night admitted for the first time that the chemical was delivered to Syria – a clear breach of international protocol on the trade of dangerous substances that has been condemned as ‘grossly irresponsible’. Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415081/Britain-sent-poison-chemicals-Assad-Proof-UK-delivered-Sarin-agent-Syrian-regime.html#ixzz2eKxvt534[/url] [/quote] Standard [quote]A watchdog should examine why a chemical that can be used to make the deadly sarin nerve agent was sold by UK firms to Syria with Government permission, a senior MP said. Supplies of sodium fluoride were exported between 2004 and 2010, during the build-up to the brutal civil war when Bashar Assad was believed to be stockpiling chemical weapons. The substance is an ingredient of sarin, which UK experts have established was used in the attack on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, in which the US says 1,429 people died, t[/quote] [url]http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/uk-firms-supplied-chemicals-to-syria-with-government-permission-before-conflict-8803659.html[/url] [quote]"Previously we thought that while export licences had been granted, no chemicals were actually delivered. Now we know that in the build-up to the Syrian civil war, British companies - with the backing of our government - were supplying this potentially lethal substance," Docherty said. "While the last export licence was issued in May 2010, these licences are obtained prior to manufacture and the industry standard is for four to five months to pass before the chemicals are delivered." "So, we are looking at late 2010 for the British supplies of sodium fluoride reaching Syria. The government has some very serious questions to answer," the MP said.[/quote] NDTV [url]http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/britain-supplied-poisonous-chemicals-to-syrian-government-report-415990[/url] RT also has a story...

Who gives a bollock

uk should be invaded

If late, please lock.

sodium fluoride time to bomb most of the world then

come on over we will make you a nice cup of tea

[QUOTE]Supplies of sodium fluoride were exported between 2004 and 2010[/QUOTE] This stuff is used for a lot more than chemical weapons, including toothpaste. The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_fluoride"]wikipedia page[/URL] doesn't even mention Sarin Gas.

[quote]Supplies of[B] sodium fluoride[/B] were exported ... that [B]could have been[/B] used to produce[/quote] [quote][B]Fluoride salts are used to enhance the strength of teeth by the formation of fluorapatite[/B], a naturally occurring component of tooth enamel.[8][9] Although sodium fluoride is also [B]used to fluoridate water[/B] and, indeed, is the standard by which other water-fluoridation compounds are gauged, hexafluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) and its salt sodium hexafluorosilicate (Na2SiF6) are more commonly used additives in the U.S.[10][B] Toothpaste often contains sodium fluoride[/B] to prevent cavities.[11] Alternatively, sodium fluoride is used as a cleaning agent (e.g., as a "laundry sour").[7] A variety of specialty chemical applications exist in synthesis and extractive metallurgy. It reacts with electrophilic chlorides including acyl chlorides, sulfur chlorides, and phosphorus chloride.[12] Like other fluorides, sodium fluoride finds use in desilylation in organic synthesis. The fluoride is the reagent for the synthesis of fluorocarbons.[/quote] War criminals.

Put them on the chopping block.

This is also late(for the news websites) because the government already gave an answer to this back in the beginning of the month. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23924259[/url]

[QUOTE=yerer;42123648]This stuff is used for a lot more than chemical weapons, including toothpaste. The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_fluoride"]wikipedia page[/URL] doesn't even mention Sarin Gas.[/QUOTE] This is only news due to the dumb as fuck concept of declaring some chemicals as "precursors" for other things, despite having legit uses. Like pretty much everything on this list [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEA_list_of_chemicals[/url] has a legitimate use but if you were to buy it in bulk (in the US anyway) the DEA would look down on you quite hard.