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One assailant aimed a gun at employees while another is believed to have sprayed an incapacitating agent in the air, causing the employees to lose consciousness.

Gunmen hold up deliveryman, steal 500 fans

In the 1960s, the United States purchased 100,000 pounds of the incapacitating agent BZ--probably one of the most expensive military chemicals ever standardized by the United States; 10,000 pounds went to research and development, leaving about 90,000 pounds for filling chemical weapons.

[Q.sub.50] quantifying chemical-biological threats

In 1962 it developed an incapacitating agent code-named BZ.

Offensive use of chemical technologies by US special operations forces in the global war on terrorism: the nonlethal option

In December 1997, the Marines considered the implications of using an incapacitating agent during the Japanese embassy siege in Lima, Peru, where 400 hostages were held by gunmen.

Objections to Weapons of Less Destruction: Abuses of nonlethal weapons could result in more pain and suffering, critics charge

The stock of agents includes sarin, the blister agent sulphur mustard and the incapacitating agent BZ, said a human rights group.

Yugoslavia's 'chemical stockpile'

"Iraq has some lethal and incapacitating agents and is capable of quickly producing and weaponizing a variety of such agents, including anthrax, for delivery on a range of vehicles such as bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers, and covert operatives which could bring them to the United States homeland." Kerry's bottom line: "The President laid out a strong, comprehensive, and compelling argument why Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs are a threat to the United States and the international community."

Kerry: he's peaking

(9) In fact, many biological warfare agents categorized as "incapacitating agents" are not intended to produce fatal disease (e.g., Brucella ssp).

Anatomy of an exposure: a hospital lab's recovery of Brucella melitensis

3) A subject with the capability of inflicting death or serious physical injury, or otherwise incapacitating agents, without a deadly weapon, is demonstrating an intention to do so.

Use-of-force policies and training: a reasoned approach (part two). (Legal Digest)

Microbiologist Richard Novick, director of the Public Health Research Institute in New York City, says he "could see how this research could easily be perverted to build incapacitating agents." Novick, a civilian scientist, in the 1960s refused a DOD proposal that he introduce penicillin-resistance genes into a pneumonia-causing bacterium.

Germ wars: beset by controversy, the U.S. military is using genetic engineering to design defenses against biological weapons

And disputes about the use of nonlethal chemical and incapacitating agents persist.

Countries should increase their aid to contain chemical weapons

The detractors' view eventually prevailed, and "incapacitating agents" were barred by an executive order signed by Richard Nixon in 1969.

The Pentagon's `nonlethal' gas: calmatives--chemical weapons made to evade chemical weapons treaties