BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, but there were no casualties, the U.S. military said Monday.
AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, but there were no casualties, the U.S. military said Monday.
bbc news said:However, a senior coalition source has told the BBC the round does not signal the discovery of weapons of mass destruction or the escalation of insurgent activity.
He said the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained.
catocom said:A war head that is filled with sarin, "is not" a wmd??.....
OK
I won't even try arguing with that.
HomeLAN said:Which the fucker swore he didn't have.
You're right Catocom. Can't even argue with this.
A senior Bush administration official told Fox News that the sarin gas shell is the second chemical weapon discovered recently.
Two weeks ago, U.S. military units discovered mustard gas that was used as part of an IED. Tests conducted by the Iraqi Survey Group (search) — a U.S. organization searching for weapons of mass destruction — and others concluded the mustard gas was "stored improperly," which made the gas "ineffective."
They believe the mustard gas shell may have been one of 550 projectiles for which former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed to account when he made his weapons declaration shortly before Operation Iraqi Freedom began last year. Iraq also failed to then account for 450 aerial bombs with mustard gas. That, combined with the shells, totaled about 80 tons of unaccounted for mustard gas.
Inkara1 said:Considering the lack of rights to keep and bear arms under Saddam, why would a farmer have a shell sitting in his barn that he put there under his own free will?
Inkara1 said:Considering the lack of rights to keep and bear arms under Saddam, why would a farmer have a shell sitting in his barn that he put there under his own free will?
HomeLAN said:
paul_valaru said:now we are getting somewhere.
but still unaccounted could mean destroyed, or wrong intel.
HomeLAN said:All except for this one. Oh, wait, two. Oh, wait....