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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Our chem vs Iraqi Chem
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Date: 31 Aug 90 03:08:52 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: uunet!mcgp1!flak (Dan Flak)
>It seems that a lot of the chemical agents would get soaked into
>the sand, evaporated, blown away, or otherwise dissapated.

It is worth remembering that "desert" does not mean "sand".  Popular
misconceptions to the contrary, much desert is rocky rather than sandy.
Real live old-movie-style sand dunes cover only a modest fraction of
the Sahara, for example.  What things are like in the Kuwait area,
I'm not sure.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry