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UK: Home Office considering use of "Chechen siege" gas

01 January 2003

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E-mails sent in error by the Home Office to the US-based Sunshine Group, which campaigns against the military use of biotechnology, show that it has enquired after the poison gas used by Russian security forces to end the Moscow theatre siege. A spokesman admitted the possibility is still under consideration as part of the so-called "less lethal technologies" programme. All but a handful of the 119 hostages who died in Moscow are believed to have been killed by the gas which is based on "fentanyl", an opiate close in effect to heroin. Times 31.10.02.

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