UN Inspectors find Mustard Gas Shells

AP | 12/05/2002

[savedbygrace]

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

[dirtboy]

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.

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."

[js1138]

dejon or brown?

[RightWhale]

Is that a WMD? Or is it just banned?

[Maedhros]

material breach

[Shermy]

Grey poupon?

[A Navy Vet]

Is Mustard gas considered a WMD?

[The Turbanator]

Ok, now what?

[RippleFire]

Grey Poupon! Saddam likes the very best.

[Frank_Discussion]

I should think so. Nasty, nasty stuff.

[colorado tanker]

I'm certain there will be an explanation forthcoming. HA! Saddam likes hot dogs?

[EternalHope]

Breaking news?

[js1138]

Is Mustard gas considered a WMD?

Iraq considers it a crowd control agent.

[Maedhros]

it's a certainly chemical weapon, which should mean that it falls under the wmd umbrella

[The Turbanator]

Mustard gas=chemical weapon=WMD
YES!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec 04, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- AP Special Correspondent

Iraq objected Wednesday to U.N. weapons inspectors' surprise intrusion into one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces. The U.N. monitors countered that they're taking the right approach - navigating between Iraqi complaints and U.S. pressure for more "severe" inspections.

"We are getting results," said inspection team leader Demetrius Perricos.

Among other things, he reported that on a five-hour inspection Wednesday of a desert installation, the international arms experts secured about a dozen Iraqi artillery shells - previously known to be there - containing a powerful chemical weapon, the liquid agent mustard.

It was the first report of such armaments traced and controlled in the week-old round of new inspections.

Perricos' team and another paid unannounced visits to that key site and to the nerve center of Iraq's old nuclear weapons program, places that were bombed, searched and dismantled in the 1990s. The 2002 inspectors wanted to ensure that Baghdad's plans for ultimate weapons have not been revived.

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[mass55th]

Now let's see if these canisters are listed on the so-called inventory Iraq is supposed to release tomorrow.

[FreeTheHostages]

EXACTLY

[daviddennis]

Well, that didn't take long, did it?

Any word on where they were found?

Did Saddam not categorically deny that he had any weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons?

D