[Cyclops08]

Wonder how many news agencies will report this. Will al jezera, will any french newsies report this?

[try phecta tom]

I'm not complaing but this has been posted before and I can't believe this isn't being mentioned any where else, what gives?

[Mr. Mojo]

What's Knight Ridder Newspapers? Never heard of them.

[graycamel]

The French-German-Canadian axis of weasel will say we imported that stuff in just to "prove the peaceful Iraqis had it".

[fuzzy122]

Let's show these heroes our thanks!!!

12,432,132 people have signed Defend America's online Thank You Note to the men and women of the U.S. military.

Whooo-raaah!!!

MEGA-

Stay Strong
Fuzzy

[Cindy]

Here's the link:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/5573683.htm

[HiTech RedNeck]

Early tests for chemical agents at the compound were inconsistent. Some showed the presence of so-called G-Series nerve agents, which include tabun and sarin, both of which Iraq has been known to possess. A hand-held scanning device also indicated the soldiers had been exposed to a nerve agent. Other tests, however, came back negative.

It was the food!

[Prince Charles]

For the record: ignorance is Blix.

[whadizit]

Didn't they say it was pesticide and not any nerve agent?

[Cindy]

An Interesting Brief Article from REUTERS.com citing NPR as its source:
"REPORT: U.S. FINDS MISSILES WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS" (April 7, 2003)
(ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.

NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."

It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.")
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DYT0XVIHCW2AICRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=2521303

[Cindy]

BBC NEWS: "'CHEMICAL ALI' REPORTED DEAD" (April 7, 2003)
NOTE: General Ali Hassan al-Majid is known as "Chemical Ali"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "General Majid, believed to be in his 50s, hailed like Saddam Hussein from the northern city of Tikrit, and was considered the leader's right-hand man.

He led the 1988 campaign against Kurds in northern Iraq in which whole villages were wiped out and an estimated 100,000 Kurds were killed.

His notoriety was assured when on 16 March, 1988, Iraqi jets swooped over the town of Halabja and for five hours sprayed the city with mustard gas and the nerve agents Tabun, Sarin and VX.

It is believed 5,000 people were killed.

New York-based Human Rights Watch, in a report this year, said General Majid was responsible for the deaths or disappearances of around 100,000 non-combatant Kurds.

In the years following, it is thought that General Majid's services were called upon to break the back of any uprising against his regime.

In 1991, he reportedly suppressed the Shiite Muslim uprising that erupted after then US President George Bush exhorted Iraqis to rid themselves of President Saddam Hussein in the wake of the first Gulf War."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2925375.stm