Homemade canisters and sarin gas without stabilizers??

[PDJane]

84. The answer is that the gas can be made fairly easily, but it isn't as simple as all that.

You can mix it, you can get the chemicals, but it degrades fairly quickly. It was used on the Tokyo subway at one point; that attack left ten people dead. If you want to actually use it as a mass weapon, it does require purer ingredients, some additives, and ways to get the stuff into the air.

It's easy...and it isn't, which is the general answer to most of these things. Crude Sarin is easy, yes. You can order it on the net, and receive the stuff via ups the next day. But, if the chemicals aren't pure, the stuff will last anywhere from a few hours to a few months...which was why the weapons inspectors wanted to get in there, like yesterday.

However, no matter how easy it is to make, there's still the question of who and why and how would it be delivered? If the rebels have jets, they're better armed than most, and why would they bother gassing their own people with such a crude weapon?

I would point out that who made the weapons still doesn't answer the question of the fact that Al Qaeda is a triumph of propaganda, and they've managed to make the American people tremble in their boots every time someone mentions the bogeyman.