According to the same source, Saddam told local commanders that if communications were cut with Baghdad, they had authority to fire chemical weapons the moment a ground attack began, reports Correspondent-at-Large Rod Nordland in the October 14 issue of Newsweek
Now how could this be? He doesn't have any WMD remember.
5 posted on 10/06/2002 9:12:37 PM PDT by Liberal Bob