Sentences with phrase «effective against a civilian»
A big part of the problem with chemical weapons is that nobody wants to admit that something relatively effective against a civilian target can be comparatively so very simple, these are generally terror weapons.
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Sure, VX or Sarin are buggers to synthesize, especially if you want them as a binary, but something like mustard or dimethyl mercury is not seriously going to challenge any decent industrial chemist, or even just industrial Chlorine (Pool supply company, industrial gasses supply house), not effective against a soldier in CW gear, but against civilians?
In R (on the application of Al - Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence — which arose from complaints against the UK about the deaths of six Iraqi civilians — the Law Lords ruled by a four to one majority that HRA 1998 applied overseas, including detention centres over which British troops had «effective control».