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All reports are that Sarin Gas is being used against the troops in Iraq. This is the type of Weapons of Mass Destruction that the President wanted to destroy. This is the reason we went into Iraq to get rid of WMD like Sarin Gas. We need to make a loud and public issue of this. We need to bring WMD back to the forefront of why we went into Iraq. This sarin gas could only be manufactured in a large plant and there have to be more WMD factories somewhere. Let's get really vocal about this and put it...

Here is the misleading CNN headline: Device found in Iraq with sarin gas BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A U.S.-led coalition convoy in Iraq found sarin gas in an artillery round rigged as an improvised explosive device, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Monday.They are REFUSING to call them what they are -- WMD!  This is an outrage.Please contact CNN here and tell them to be honest, for once, call WMD WMD, and stop shilling for the Democrats!Here is the FoxNews version.If you have time, here is more contact info for CNN:CNNwww.cnn.comeason.jordan@turner.comtom.johnson@turner.comrick.davis@turner.comgerald.levin@twi.comcommunity@cnn.comhttp://www.cnn.com/feedback/1 CNN Center POB 105366 Atlanta, GA 30348 Phone: (404) 827-1500,...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A small amount of the nerve agent sarin was found in a shell that exploded in Iraq (news -web sites), the U.S. army said Monday in the first announcement of discovery of any of the weapons on which Washington made its case for war. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference the substance had been found in an artillery shell inside a bag discovered by a U.S. convoy a few days ago. The round had exploded, causing a small release of the substance, he said. "The Iraq Survey Group has confirmed today that a 155 (mm)...

<p>"Week after week after week after week," said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., about President Bush's rationale for going to war with Iraq, "we were told lie after lie after lie after lie." Were we?</p> <p>Jordan recently seized 20 tons of chemicals trucked in by confessed al-Qaeda members who brought the stuff in from Syria. The chemicals included VX, Sarin and 70 others. But the media seems curiously incurious about whether one could reasonably trace this stuff back to Iraq. Had the terrorists released a "toxic cloud," Jordanian officials say 80,000 would have died!</p>

Hans Blix tells crowd at UT the use of pre-emptive force sets a dangerous precedent By Nicolas Brulliard AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, April 29, 2004 Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix sharply criticized the intelligence presented by the United States in the buildup to the war in Iraq and warned against the use of pre-emptive force in a Wednesday night speech at the University of Texas. "A pre-emptive strike must necessarily rest on intelligence that indicates the danger to be occurring, the attack to be countered," Blix said. "And it is not hard to see that the intelligence that underpinned...

Iraq minister says Saddam's WMD carefully hidden -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Updates with comments on Saddam's trial, Iraq's unity) By Anna Mudeva SOFIA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Iraq's foreign minister said on Thursday Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which inspectors have failed to find, were carefully hidden but Hoshiyar Zebari said he was confident they could be discovered. "I have every belief that some of these weapons could be found as we move forward," Zebari, an Iraqi Kurd, told a news conference in Sofia. "They have been hidden in certain areas. The system of hiding was very sophisticated." The United States and...

The man who spent eight months leading the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq told senators here Jan. 28 that although no such weapons have been found, he believes Iraq may have been "even more dangerous than we thought" before Saddam Hussein was removed from power. David Kay, who stepped down last week as head of the Iraq Survey Group, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Kay told the senators he has changed his belief – which he pointed out was shared by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies, including those of governments that opposed the war –...

Protagonists on both sides of the war debate have been exposed, writes Tony Parkinson.Hands up those who overestimated the capacity of Saddam Hussein's Iraq to produce and deploy weapons of mass destruction.I, for one, plead guilty.It is only of limited comfort that I can cite as co-defendants the combined intelligence agencies of the Western world, along with the "strong presumptions" of former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. For reasons still unknown, widely held expectations have not been borne out by the facts.Now, hands up those who accused the US, British and Australian governments of lying their way to...

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LONDON (AFP) - An Iraqi exile group in London which claims to have supplied Britain with a key piece of intelligence on Iraqi weapons has admitted that the information might have been false. The claim that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was able to deploy chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes of the order being given was a headline-grabbing assertion in a British government dossier published in September 2002, in the run-up to the Iraq (news - web sites) war. It was also at the heart of a row between the British government and the BBC over allegations...

TBLISI, Georgia - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) held out the possibility Saturday that prewar Iraq (news - web sites) may not have possessed weapons of mass destruction. Powell was asked about comments last week by David Kay, the outgoing leader of a U.S. weapons search team in Iraq, that he did not believe Iraq had large quantities of chemical or biological weapons. "The answer to that question is, we don't know yet," Powell told reporters as he traveled to this former Soviet republic to attend the inauguration Sunday of President-elect Mikhail Saakashvili. Powell acknowledged that...

Ex-U.S. Arms Hunter Kay Says No Stockpiles in Iraq Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Kay, who stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction, said on Friday he does not believe there were any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq "I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War (news - web sites) and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the...

<p>Tests by Danish, British and U.S. experts have been inconclusive in determining if mortar shells unearthed last week in southern Iraq contain a blister agent, a Danish army spokesman said Wednesday.</p> <p>The 36 shells, discovered last week by Danish troops, are believed to be from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.</p>

Blair under fire again for WMD claims GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN CLAIMS that weapons inspectors have uncovered massive evidence that Saddam Hussein had a network of clandestine laboratories have landed Tony Blair in trouble for the second time in a month after they were rubbished by the United States’ top man in Iraq. Paul Bremer, unaware the claims had been made by the Prime Minister, said the comments sounded like a "red herring" put about to undermine the coalition by someone opposed to military action. Once Mr Bremer realised the remarks were Mr Blair’s, he softened his criticism, but it was too...