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> ... reported yesterday morning by Dr. Bob Arnott from
> MSNBC. He was there when the testing was taking place.

I heard a report, and this one neither confirms nor refutes
it, that the cynanide was later thought to be at natural
background levels for the river at that point. Any updates
on this?

The answer to that, of course, does nothing to explain the
presence of mustard.

Let's not get overanxious about this and leap on every
report from fog-of-war-land. If the agents are out there,
they'll be found soon enough.

(And if we were going to plant them, they'd have already
been "found" some time ago :-)

I was just reporting what Dr. Arnott said yesterday as he was there when the testing was done. The mustard agent was high on the first test and went down as it was more diluted by the water.

BTW I am not overanxious. I know we will find the find WMD's and probably already have but there has been a lid on reporting. Dr. Arnott did not report this as WMD's BTW. It was a concern because the concentration was high right outside the reverse osmosis intake valve which is used to provide water for our troops.