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U.S. reports discovery of sarin, mustard gas Could be among WMD Saddam
hid from inspectors

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Posted: May 17, 2004
1:25 p.m. Eastern


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Two separate discoveries of chemical weapons, possibly among the
weapons of mass destruction Saddam hid from inspectors, were reported
today in Iraq by U.S. officials.

The Iraq Survey Group, assigned the task of searching for WMD,
confirmed a roadside bomb that exploded Saturday near a U.S. military
convoy in the area of Baghdad International Airport contained sarin
nerve agent.

Also, a senior Bush administration official told Fox News U.S.
military units two weeks ago discovered mustard gas that was used as
part of an improvised explosive device, or IED.

The Iraqi Survey Group and others believe the mustard gas shell could
have been one of the 550 for which ousted Iraq President Saddam
Hussein failed to account shortly before the Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters the sarin shell belonged to a
class of ordnance the Saddam regime said was destroyed before the 1991
Gulf war.

"It was a weapon that we believe was stocked from the ex-regime time
and it had been thought to be an ordinary artillery shell set up to
explode like an ordinary IED and basically from the detection of that
and when it exploded, it indicated that it actually had some sarin in
it," Kimmitt said.

Tests on the mustard gas concluded it was "stored improperly," which
made the gas "ineffective," Fox News said.

Investigators are trying to find out how insurgents obtained the
chemical weapons.

Apparently, however, the bombmakers were unaware the devices contained
the chemical agents.

No serious injuries were reported after the sarin incident, but two
people were treated for "minor exposure."

The discovery came about when soldiers transporting the shell for
inspection suffered symptoms consistent with low-level chemical
exposure, according to Fox News.

Administration officials told the network some top Pentagon officials
were surprised by the announcement of the sarin discovery, believing
the matter was classified.

Network military analyst Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney commented: "Everybody
knew Saddam had chemical weapons, the question was, where did they go.
Unfortunately, everybody jumped on the offramp and said 'well, because
we didn't find them, he didn't have them.'"

David Kay, the previous head of the Iraq Survey Group, said it appears
the sarin shell was one of tens of thousands produced for the
Iran-Iraq war, according to the Associated Press.

United Nations resolutions required Saddam to destroy or turn over the
weapons to the United Nations, but in many cases, Kay said, Iraq did
comply.

"It is hard to know if this is one that just was overlooked - and
there were always some that were overlooked, we knew that - or if this
was one that came from a hidden stockpile," Kay said. "I rather doubt
that because it appears the insurgents didn't even know they had a
chemical round."

Even though the discovery shows Saddam did not fully comply with the
U.N., Kay said, "It doesn't strike me as a big deal."

Hans Blix, the former U.N. weapons inspector, said today that before
the war, his team found 16 empty warheads marked for use with sarin.

The sarin gas, he said, according to the AP, could have been from a
leftover shell found in a chemical dump.

"It doesn't sound absurd at all," he said. "There can be debris from
the past and that's a very different thing from have stocks and
supplies."

Sarin-type agents constituted about 20 percent of all chemical weapons
agents that Saddam Hussein's government declared it had produced,
according to U.N. weapons inspectors, the AP reported.

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