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[Czar]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040114_1251.html

Tests Show No Agent in Iraq Mortar Shells
Tests on Iraqi Shells Show No Chemical Warfare Agent, but More Tests Needed, Danish Army Says

The Associated Press



CAMP EDEN, Iraq Jan. 14 ? U.S. tests on mortar shells found in Iraq and suspected of containing blister agents have turned up negative, though further tests will be conducted, a Danish army spokesman said Wednesday.

The 36 shells, discovered last week by Danish troops, are believed to be from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

Four initial tests by British and Danish experts came up positive for blister agents, Danish spokesman, Capt. Kim Vibe Michelsen, told The Associated Press.

But later tests by U.S. experts from the Iraq Survey Group on five of the shells have shown no trace of chemical weapons, the Danish military said.

However, more tests are needed and "the ISG wants a final confirmation, so the results will be sent to the Idaho National Environment Engineering Laboratory," the military said in a statement.

A U.S. official said the tests suggest the munitions may not contain blister agents, as initial field tests had indicated.

The official, speaking on condition of anonimity, said that the test results aren't definitive, but "it seems to be turning away from being a blister agent." The official said there are chemicals associated with certain munitions, such as phospohrous, that can produce false positives.

 

[Witling]

One thread "should" rule them all. Here's a link to another -- and I think previous -- post on this subject. On the post that is linked below, I've posted a link to Czar's original entry on this subject. But this is probably the better thread for this subject.

Another Link

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Whitling
One thread "should" rule them all. Here's a link to another -- and I think previous -- post on this subject. On the post that is linked below, I've posted a link to Czar's original entry on this subject. But this is probably the better thread for this subject.

Another Link

Shouldn't that be: One thread to rule them all. ?

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Whitling One thread "should" rule them all. Here's a link to another -- and I think previous -- post on this subject. On the post that is linked below, I've posted a link to Czar's original entry on this subject. But this is probably the better thread for this subject. Another Link

Shouldn't that be: One thread to rule them all. ?

Dear god, a Paraphrasing Nazi !

 

[Bitdog]

If any of the shells had even one small smudge of a Chemical Warfare Agent on them,
I feel that the Bushies would feel vindicated in their justification for a war of aggression based on WMD.
Even if the shells were made in America and we gave them to our buddy Sadam to kill Iranians.
Bushies will never admit that SADAM WAS NO THREAT TO AMERICA, as claimed.

If the CIA knew that they had given Sadam so many weapons that there had to be some left,
a lie of WMD would be justificated when they found them after/during the war.

He who wins the war, writes the history.

It's cut throat politics at it's worst.

4 more years..............................= worst case senerio.

 

[chess9]

Bitdog:

I'm surprised they don't have some Hellman's handy.... Just a little dab will do ya'.

-Robert