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To: Nexus
Hard copy is finally hitting the web. From Scotsman.com

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2938462

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Sarin Nerve Gas Bomb Explodes in Iraq

"PA"

A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent has exploded in Iraq near a US military convoy, said a US military spokesman today. There were no casualties.

“The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155 millimetre artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found,” said Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq.

“The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a US force convoy.

“A detonation occurred before the IED could be rendered inoperable. This produced a very small dispersal of agent,” he said.

Iraq began producing sarin in 1984 and admitted to possessing 790 tons of it in 1995.

Saddam Hussein used the gas against Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988.
/PA

106 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:51 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: TomGuy
Let's not forget, N. Korea - Syria connection in recent rail yard explosion in N. Korea..
And, the demand back in April (22) from Sudan that Syria remove all Syrian SCUD missiles and WMD chemical-biological materials from Sudan.. (Sudanese fear of U.S. sanctions)

I ask you..
Where are the Iraqi WMD's?
I suggest to you..
Well, they WERE in Syria, then Sudan..
They may well be in N. Korea now..

(Syria needs a good "stompin' " ... and how. )

129 posted on 05/17/2004 7:58:08 AM PDT by Drammach (The Wolves are at the Door... Hey, Kids! Your lunch is here!)
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