chemical weapons in Iraq
sonofghandi
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Chemical weapons that were buried before 1991, of US design were discovered in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
The New York Times found 17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers who were exposed to nerve or mustard agents after 2003. American officials said that the actual tally of exposed troops was slightly higher, but that the government?s official count was classified.
All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.
The lengthy piece goes on in much more detail, if you have the time to read it. The heavily redacted documents obtained under FOIA are linked at the bottom of the page.
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I know sarin has a very short shelf life and mustard gas somewhat longer but both would be totally useless militarily after 20 years, some sitting in some warehouse doesn't pose any threat to anyone besides maybe those cleaning them up. We've heard this before, it was reported sporadically throughout the Iraq War but it obviously isn't the ongoing WMD program that the Bush administration scared us into going to war over, it seems likely that these pre-1991 chemical weapons may of actually came from the US that we gave to Saddam to use against the Iranians in the 80s. The timing of this story is interesting, trying to justify the last war to justify the next one it seems.
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