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Article: Chlorine, a Key Ingredient in Terrorist Bombs, Is Easy to Buy, Undercover Police Find - New York Times
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- The New York Times
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- February 14, 2008
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Undercover police investigators set up a fake company, bought chlorine online without providing identification and then watched as a truck delivered the chemical to a Brooklyn warehouse.It wasan operation designed to demonstrate how easily a terrorist could acquire the ingredients for a deadly chemical strike against the city, police officials said on Wednesday. A videotape shown at a counterterrorism briefing for private security executives discussed the threat and disclosed the results of the investigation, Operation Green Cloud, referring to the yellow-green color of chlorine gas. The purpose was ''to assess the ease or difficulty with which a terrorist in the United States could ...
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