CHEMICAL weapons are nasty. But they rarely affect more than a few square kilometres, before blowing away. And yet, under the Chemical Weapons Convention, if a member country is plausibly accused of making the things, inspectors land on its doorstep within days – and it has to let them in.
Pandemic flu will cause far more deaths than any chemical weapon we know. Yet there is no way to verify alleged outbreaks. Last week, a report posted by “nine young people” on a Chinese website stated that 121 people in 18 villages have died of bird flu in the Chinese province…
