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Despite the sarin find, the former UN weapons inspection chief in Iraq, Mr Hans Blix, questioned whether the shell was 'debris from the past' or part of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blix, whose inspection team did not make any significant weapons finds during months of searching Iraq before the war, said he and his team of inspectors found 16 warheads that were tagged as used for containing sarin, but were empty.
Brig-Gen Kimmitt said he believed that insurgents who rigged the artillery shell as a bomb did not know it contained the nerve agent, and that the dispersal of the nerve agent from such a rigged device was very limited.
Dispersal would be far more effective if a shell containing nerve agent was fired from an artillery piece, he said.
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Anyway, I guess I'm not the only one who finds it strange that this news comes out now, only days after stories of American and British soldiers torturing Iraqis were leaked out. I wouldn't be surprised if someone (non-Iraqi) planted it there.
Then again, it's far more likely what Brig-Gen Kimmitt said, that the makers didn't even know it was Sarin. Probably because there almost no Sarin left. I'm always wondering, if they really had lots of Sarin and other nerve gas, why haven't they lobbed a bomb on a US base yet then? Pity, because so many soldiers die already each day? Or because they're doing such a "good" job rebuilding Iraq?
Mr Blix, whose inspection team did not make any significant weapons finds during months of searching Iraq before the war, said he and his team of inspectors found 16 warheads that were tagged as used for containing sarin, but were empty.
Brig-Gen Kimmitt said he believed that insurgents who rigged the artillery shell as a bomb did not know it contained the nerve agent, and that the dispersal of the nerve agent from such a rigged device was very limited.
Dispersal would be far more effective if a shell containing nerve agent was fired from an artillery piece, he said.
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Anyway, I guess I'm not the only one who finds it strange that this news comes out now, only days after stories of American and British soldiers torturing Iraqis were leaked out. I wouldn't be surprised if someone (non-Iraqi) planted it there.
Then again, it's far more likely what Brig-Gen Kimmitt said, that the makers didn't even know it was Sarin. Probably because there almost no Sarin left. I'm always wondering, if they really had lots of Sarin and other nerve gas, why haven't they lobbed a bomb on a US base yet then? Pity, because so many soldiers die already each day? Or because they're doing such a "good" job rebuilding Iraq?
