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Sarin Nerve Gas Round Found, Partly Detonated in Iraq (Update1)
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- A small shell containing Sarin nerve gas was discovered and partly detonated in Iraq today, U.S. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said during a briefing televised from Baghdad.
The 155-millimeter round, which was rigged as an improvised explosive device, was found by a U.S. convoy and detonated before it could be rendered inoperable, producing a very small amount of nerve gas, Kimmitt said. Two members of the ordnance team were treated for minor exposure to the nerve agent, he said.
The shell was an older round with two compartments containing two chemical components that need to be mixed before the agent is produced, Kimmitt said. It was designed to work after being fired from an artillery cannon and the ability to mix and distribute the gas from an improvised explosive device is ``very limited,'' Kimmitt said.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime declared all of its Sarin nerve gas rounds destroyed before the 1991 Gulf War, Kimmitt said. Kimmitt said it was the first Sarin shell the U.S. military has found.
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Last Updated: May 17, 2004 10:49 EDT
FOX news reporting that mustard gas was also found.
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