[mr.pink]

Good questions and I share your couriousity re them.

Iraq did not invent sarin, and certainly is not the only nation to posess it.

There so many different folks from different nations running amuck there, with each pursuing their own interests and agendas, that getting the "answers" may be difficult.

[Atlantic Friend]

Indeed. I was, and right now still am, skeptical about the WMD story. Not that I doubt Iraq had some before the Gulf War, that is much documented. A few Chem mortar or artillery shells are certainly no big deal. A large stockpile, however disseminated throughout the country, or a factory able to produce thousands, or even hundreds of such shells would be quite a different matter to me.

What baffle me here are the initial reports, that said a small quantity of Sarin had been detected. Is "a small quantity" consistent with the explosion of a 155 mm Sarin shell ? I just hope further reports will make the whole thing crystal clear.