A completely bogus statement by someone with enough knowledge to know better. Sarin has a shelf life of about 3 weeks once the two components are mixed. If the shell was fired long ago, the contents would have been inert by this time. This was a binary shell designed to mix the components after the shell was fired.
Sadaam never declared having this type of shell and UN inspectors had previously indicated that Sadaams chemical shells required mixing the two components prior to firing the shell. This shell was more likely to have been acquired after 1996 and could not have been previously fired.
Scott Ritter knows this and is purposely providing deceptive information - AKA - lying!
Sadaam never declared having this type of shell and UN inspectors had previously indicated that Sadaams chemical shells required mixing the two components prior to firing the shell. This shell was more likely to have been acquired after 1996 and could not have been previously fired. Scott Ritter knows this and is purposely providing deceptive information - AKA - lying!
Excuse my ignorance of things military, but if this shell had previously been fired, even if it was a dud, wouldn't it have been destroyed or seriously deformed upon impact? In the Kennedy assassination, we had the "pristine bullet" controversy; now we have a "pristine dual-chamber shell" controversy.