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17 May 2004 10:49:33 AM |
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NERVE GAS: U.S. Army Says It Finds Shell with Sarin Agent in Iraq |
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&u=/nm/20040517/ts_nm/iraq_sarin_dc_3&printer=1
5/17/2004
U.S. Army Says It Finds Shell with Sarin Agent in Iraq
49 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A small amount of the nerve agent sarin was found
in a shell that exploded in Iraq (news - web sites), the U.S. army
said Monday in the first announcement of discovery of any of the
weapons on which Washington made its case for war.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference the substance
had been found in an artillery shell inside a bag discovered by a U.S.
convoy a few days ago. The round had exploded, causing a small release
of the substance, he said.
"The Iraq Survey Group has confirmed today that a 155 (mm) artillery
round containing sarin nerve agent had been found. The round had been
rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) that was discovered by
a U.S. force convoy," he said.
"A detonation occurred before the IED be could be rendered
inoperable," Kimmitt said, adding that two members of an explosives
team had been treated for exposure to the substance.
Kimmitt said the round, designed to mix the sarin in flight, belonged
to a class of ordnance that the ousted government of Saddam Hussein
(news - web sites) claimed to have destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war.
"It is 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... when it exploded it indicated that it
actually had some sarin in it," he said.
IEDs are bombs usually planted at the side of the road to explode as
coalition vehicles pass.
The United States launched its invasion of Iraq last year, accusing
then-president Saddam Hussein of developing chemical, biological and
possibly nuclear weapons. Failure to find such weapons has stirred
criticism in the United States and Britain, Washington's closest ally
in the war.
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| Title: Re: NERVE GAS: U.S. Army Says It Finds Shell with Sarin Agent in Iraq |
17 May 2004 10:59:27 AM |
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Subject: NERVE GAS: U.S. Army Says It Finds Shell with Sarin Agent in Iraq
From: ArKLyte_
Date: 5/17/2004 11:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <d0oha0p6s600cij2o5hi8k9alpsfa7fsgu@4ax.com>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&u=/nm/20040517/ts_nm/iraq_s
arin_dc_3&printer=1
5/17/2004
U.S. Army Says It Finds Shell with Sarin Agent in Iraq
It would be more acceptable if Donald Rumsfeld had taken it out of his luggage.
49 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A small amount of the nerve agent sarin was found
in a shell that exploded in Iraq (news - web sites), the U.S. army
said Monday in the first announcement of discovery of any of the
weapons on which Washington made its case for war.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference the substance
had been found in an artillery shell inside a bag discovered by a U.S.
convoy a few days ago. The round had exploded, causing a small release
of the substance, he said.
"The Iraq Survey Group has confirmed today that a 155 (mm) artillery
round containing sarin nerve agent had been found. The round had been
rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) that was discovered by
a U.S. force convoy," he said.
"A detonation occurred before the IED be could be rendered
inoperable," Kimmitt said, adding that two members of an explosives
team had been treated for exposure to the substance.
Kimmitt said the round, designed to mix the sarin in flight, belonged
to a class of ordnance that the ousted government of Saddam Hussein
(news - web sites) claimed to have destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war.
"It is 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... when it exploded it indicated that it
actually had some sarin in it," he said.
IEDs are bombs usually planted at the side of the road to explode as
coalition vehicles pass.
The United States launched its invasion of Iraq last year, accusing
then-president Saddam Hussein of developing chemical, biological and
possibly nuclear weapons. Failure to find such weapons has stirred
criticism in the United States and Britain, Washington's closest ally
in the war.
--
* See the REAL 'Religion of Peace', Islam, on this site - EXCELLENT
* http://www.mathematik.net/homepage/islam/islam.htm
* Translated: http://tinyurl.com/2ooqh
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