I'm getting sick of this 'Gas Attack' Threat Advisory that i got 13 times so far from different people within the last 10 days!
PEOPLE WHO SEND THIS KIND OF E-MAILS HAVE NO F..KING CLUE!
There is no effective way to survive a Chemical warfare agent on a civilian population, unless advance warning is issued to the population ( not this kind of warning!!!) who have some sort of prior training/access to protective equipment etc.!and are supported by Early Warning system including Air Sampling/Remote Sensors etc.
Only marginally successful awareness/training/preparedness of a population on NBC attacks was in Israel,when they prepped their Northern Settlements for possible NBC attack in the 90s just before first Gulf War and few years later according to a leaked Israel Govt.report had stated that they perceived the 4 year long prep was with marginal results and in an event of such attack ,even in the scale of Tokyo attack would have left the population to mass panic ,with only people who may have a chance of escape using the gas masks/shelters would be families of Israel Defence Force personal while rest of the general population would perish/survive with injuries!
Someone needs to write to this Police guy and the ANCL lady as this is nothing but blatant scare mongering and spamming exercise!!! ! the ANCL Lady seems to be in close contact with 'MI' and her list of threat locations are at times hilarious! fact is the list covers all the urban towns of Colombo city minus majority Tamil areas!
And if there is a likely threat, then it should be the responsibility of the Govt (??) to prep the people of such threats.[we know well, thats not going to happen!!!!]
I kinda like the one of the ways of surviving Mustard Gas " 4. Do not vomit, drink milk "..
what the f..k..? Allied forces in WW1 should have issued such warnings/advisory with loads of milk to its troops in the western front during the height of Mustard gas attacks !!!!!
I'm not an expert on chemical warfare but from what i understand, CS gas is a non-lethal riot control agent that's whats called 'tear gas' in normal parlance, and the Military version of the CS is much stronger and are used in fighting in urban areas to flush out people from closed places without harming them.however, Military use of CS is now banned following the 1997 Chemical Warfare Convention,but Law Enforcement agencies and Police use the more toned down version of CS, and known as, like i mentioned before 'tear gas' in crystallized form for riot control.
The deadly Chlorine attack in Japan took place in an underground subway and the culprits , the Aum Shinrikio Sect used a big 100kg drum to kill a dozen ppl..
Since October 2008, LTTE has being using tear gas (not Military version of CS [TZ342] against Army Troops in Vanni, especially in defending LTTEs FDLs ,with not much impact on the troops other than as a delaying tactic as the forward assault units in practice don't carry masks with them as its a hindrance for their mobility to carry extra stuff, though front line troops are equipped with such protective masks!
In the context of mass attack as expected in Colombo, the LTTE would need huge supply of gas, have to have a way to transport it to a staging area and would need elaborate ways of delivering it to its targets, ie. open public spaces etc..
But we all know that we are at a time when the LTTE is finding hard even to blast a small parcel bomb in a remote part of Colombo,against their capability to strike as they wised just a few years back..its hard to believe in a mass attack in this context and the use of Aircraft to drop chemical bombs too.
LTTE Aircraft (provided if any operational planes survived the Army attacks so far..) have a payload of around 250-350kg, as seen from previous attacks! so even if they undertake a, one off Air attack (provided they have take off strip /manage to counter the present Air Defence network ) using chemical agents , it might not yield that much of a kill ratio that's enough to make a considerable impact.
Therefor dissemination of bogus/spam messages, even with good intentions, can harm the public . Besides, the dissemination of such messages quite often creates unnecessary panic/anxiety, prompts public to take wrong/counterproductive measures and otherwise puts unnecessary strain on already overloaded Security/Health resources.
I really hope these people would take note and refrain from forwarding similar messages in the future.
below is the 'Threat Advisory' thats being circulated en mass!
BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY...
Subject: !!!!! Gas Attack in Colombo VERY SOOOOONNNNNNN.......
Dear All Friends TO BE ALERT ..
According to latest Intelligence reports, the LTTE has decided to
attack both military and civilian targets in the South to disrupt
civilian life as much as possible. MI warns of an LTTE plan to attack
several major cities simultaneously including Colombo and cause
widespread panic and fear among civilians.
Borella
Nugegoda
Pettah
Kottawa
Homagama
Maharagama
Buses and Railway
Kandy-bus stand and railway station
Gampola
The WTC twin towers,
Colombo
harbour and
the city of Kandy
are said to be among primary targets of the LTTE. According to MI,
LTTE intelligence cadres 'disguised as beggars', differently-abled
people and sales representatives have already been
deployed to gather intel on these targets...
Send this to all your relatives & friends in Sri Lanka and inform them
to be alert.
Miss.Nadira.Gunatilleke
Staff.Journalist
Daily.News(www.dailynews.lk)
ANCL
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Gas Attack in Colombo VERY SOOOOONNNNNNN.......
Its always beyond our comprehension, it's unimaginable sometimes. But
it always happened making us helpless and ashamed. Our defenses denied
LTTE having aircrafts. Proclaimed to shoot them down the moment they
are airborne. Blamed people like Iqbal Athas as traitors for reporting
it. But now it has become a fact, they managed to invade our airspace
six times and escape without a scratch.
Recently media reported that LTTE is planning to use chemical weapons.
Our defenses denied it bluntly, weeks after that they attacked our
army using chemical weapons. Well its said to be none lethal version,
CS gas. But this news is startling. It's reported that some of our
soldiers became ill after that.
What if LTTE use these weapons on civilians, CS gas in a fully packed
bus could be lethal enough to kill many innocent people. Or they could
even use a lethal gas like Chlorine.Like in Japan.LTTE will only have
minor effect on our army. If they use gas in open areas .Chemical
weapons are successful only if they are deployed in large amounts,
Possibly from air. But there is a possibility of LTTE using chemical
weapons on civilians. Government should take necessary steps in
advising the public of ways to survive a gas attack.
Lets not wait to close the gate after the horse has run away. These
are some ways to survive Mustard or chlorine attack.
Chlorine Gas
1.Yellow,green gas with the strong smell of bleach might be chlorine
2.Move quickly into an area with clean air
3. try to hold your breath until you move away.
3. Don't stay indoors
4. Move to higher ground ( chlorine is denser than air)
5. Pee on a cloth and hold it to your nose (urine crystallize
chlorine, this could be very useful . for our army).
6. Remove cloths which touched the gas.
7. Do not vomit.
8. Wash your body throughly.
9. Stay calm, panicking may increase the amount of gas that you inhale
10. Don't try to cover your kids face, try to cover your nose first
then you can help the kids
Mustard Gas
1. Burning or itching on the skin or onion smell gas is a sign of musted gas
2.Move to higher ground
3.Cover your skin to avoid burning
4. Do not vomit, drink milk
5. Wash your body throughly.
If you have any other information please add-up, Can anyone translate
this into sinhala and tamil post in a blog, or circulate among people.
It Could be useful, lets not wait until the government do it, they are
always late.
----
Dear All,
Please take all possible preventive measures on the interest of
security in your work places, homes, markets, schools, banks,
vehicles, trains, bus stops, temples, churches or where ever you move
out. It may be on the road during your day to day business in the
future because, information has been received that very serious
calamity is been planed out by the LTTE to cause in the south or
central, in the coming period.
Take care of your children more than any other times and educated all
inmates of homes, office,schools or else where.
Special attention have to be taken for those in the security services
and their homes etc.
Please educate all your friends and relations on this to take adequate
care to avoid mass escalations to human lives and their properties.
if any suspicious person even a beggar is noticed by you, take steps
quickly to inform security authorities and the people around.
See mail below for your interest.
With best regards
Caesar Ranaweera,
Contingent Commander for Sri Lanka ,
Team Leader/ Internal Evaluation Unit,
Police Commissioner's Office,
United Nations Mission in Timor Leste
Caicoli, Obrigado,
Dili,
Tel:+670-3312210 Ext. 4606
Mobile :+ 670-7319012
Via Australia +61(8)89463900 Ext.4607
Via NY+212-9630099 Ext 4607
ranaweerac@un.org
decaesar49@hotmail.com
Monday, February 16, 2009
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