UN Inspectors find Mustard Gas Shells

AP | 12/05/2002

[rumrunner]

Demetrius Perricos, who is leading one of the U.N. inspection teams in Iraq, said Wednesday his team of international arms experts secured about a dozen Iraqi artillery shells containing the mustard liquid agent.

[iceskater]

Sounds like someone screwed up at the UN. Whoever was supposed to notify the Iraqis of the inspection schedule, failed to to do so. This stuff wasn't supposed to be found. Iraq has no WMD, you know. [sarcasm off]

[Maedhros]

link

[finnman69]

Soon to be heard at DUmmyland and the UN

"BUT BUT BUT its only 8 shells"

In Baghdad, a senior Iraqi official said Iraq will hand over its report on chemical, biological and nuclear programs on Saturday, a day ahead of the U.N. deadline. The official, Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, said the report will not admit to any proscribed weaponry "because, really, we have no weapons of mass destruction."

[Caipirabob]

A HORRID Chemical blister-agent. I think it should be counted among them. Slow, painful pathetic death on contact. It might not kill you, but after a heavy exposure you'd wish it had.

If I recall death typically occurred from the blisters which formed in the lungs burst and the victim drowned.

[Publius6961]

I'm certain there will be an explanation forthcoming. HA!

Condiment for eating hot dogs on the run..........?

[Ground0]

Curious, no mention of "Bad manners" by UN "Inspectors" by Iraqi "officals."

Elementry, my dear Watson.

[alley cat]

Among other things...

It's the other things I am really curious about!

[blau993]

If they were not on the inventory today, you can bet they will be on it tomorrow.

[finnman69]

What does previoulsy known to be there mean?

[demlosers]

Material Breech!

[Caipirabob]

EEEEP!

Mustard Gas (Yperite) was first used by the German Army in September 1917. The most lethal of all the poisonous chemicals used during the war, it was almost odourless and took twelve hours to take effect. Yperite was so powerful that only small amounts had to be added to high explosive shells to be effective. Once in the soil, mustard gas remained active for several weeks.

The skin of victims of mustard gas blistered, the eyes became very sore and they began to vomit. Mustard gas caused internal and external bleeding and attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucous membrane. This was extremely painful and most soldiers had to be strapped to their beds. It usually took a person four or five weeks to die of mustard gas poisoning. One nurse, Vera Brittain, wrote: "I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning. Great mustard-coloured blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke."

More here

[demlosers]

YES

[weegee]

A chemical agent was discovered by UN inspectors today and you don't consider this to be a breaking news item?

[Starrgaizr]

Fingers are flying as the Iraqis change their WMD inventory from "Nothing" to "Eight shells of mustard gas that the U.N. inspectors planted to trigger a war."

Right. This is the traitorous UN at work again. They were supposed to wait until the Iraqis declared no WMDs before pouncing on known stockpiles of the stuff.

[finnman69]

Iraq Tells the World Again We Have No Banned Arms

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=716&e=8&u=/nm/20021204/ts_nm/iraq_dc
By Nadim Ladki and Carol Giacomo

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq said on Wednesday its planned declaration to the United Nations (news - web sites) would cover biological, chemical, missile and nuclear technologies, but stressed again it had no weapons of mass destruction.

Baghdad's latest statement was another message of defiance to President Bush (news - web sites), who insists Iraq does possess weapons of mass destruction and has threatened war if necessary to disarm it.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz cooled any talk of imminent war, however, saying Iraq's declaration to the U.N. would not in itself trigger a U.S. decision on military action.

"I'm quite sure (Bush) is not going to make it simply on the basis of one single piece of information," Wolfowitz said in Brussels. "He's going to make it...also (in) close consultation, particularly with our allies but indeed with the international community."

Hussam Mohammed Amin, head of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, said in Baghdad: "The declaration will repeat that in Iraq there are no weapons of mass destruction.

"It will be a huge declaration. Of course it contains new elements," he told a news conference.

Amin, who has already said the dossier will be handed over on Saturday, a day before the U.N. deadline, said it would cover "biological, chemical and missile and nuclear activities" as well as "dual-use activities," a reference to technology with both civilian and military applications.

Washington dismissed Iraq's statement and demanded a more aggressive U.N. hunt for arms of mass destruction as inspectors in Iraq trudged past camels and through a foul-smelling desert site. So far they have found nothing untoward, apart from some old artillery shells containing mustard gas that the U.N. already knew about.

[VaBthang4]

Sacré bleu, Attaquezz!

[finnman69]

Washington dismissed Iraq's statement and demanded a more aggressive U.N. hunt for arms of mass destruction as inspectors in Iraq trudged past camels and through a foul-smelling desert site. So far they have found nothing untoward, apart from some old artillery shells containing mustard gas that the U.N. already knew about.

[weegee]

One nurse, Vera Brittain, wrote: "I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning.

Sounds like the peace in our lifetime crowd had advocates during WWI as well.

[cmsgop]

This is a vey series Material Bench™..........

[Seeking the truth]

Permission to fire, sir?

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