| Viper Daimao |
05-18-2004 10:06 AM |
Yes a old canister that contained sarin gas was used. who ever used it didnt know it contained it. but thats not all, mustard gas was found also, seperately. Confirmed here by CNN, read down a bit, the finding chemical weapons in Iraq is now only news enough for a subtitle of another story.
but the question is where did this come from? either from with in iraq from one of the weapons stockpiles the baathist insurgents are getting weapons from, or from outside the country (syria, iran) where the terrorists are coming from. now the fact that it was unmarked, and it was unknown that it contained sarin would lead me to believe that it didnt come from Syria or Iran since they would have theirs marked, or at least whoever they give it to would know what was contained in it.
From that CNN story:
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Kimmitt said the artillery round was of an old style that Saddam Hussein's regime had declared it no longer possessed after the Persian Gulf War....
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so this would lean toward the canister being from iraq. how did it get there? why wasnt it marked and disposed of by the UN? Does this confirm what David Kay said to congress:
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Originally Posted by David Kay
"We know that terrorists were passing through Iraq. And now we know that there was little control over Iraq's weapons capabilities. I think it shows that Iraq was a very dangerous place. The country had the technology, the ability to produce, and there were terrorist groups passing through the country -- and no central control."
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The mustard gas shell, rendered ineffective by improper storage, is probably one of 550 projectiles. Together with 450 aerial bombs, that represents 80 tons of mustard gas. What happened to it? We don't know. We can only hope those shells, too, were not stored properly.
regardless, while finding this ONE shell does not prove Saddam had “stockpiles” of wmd’s, it does show evidence (again) that he violated the U.N. resolution:
On December 8th of 2002 Saddam was supposed to provide a “currently accurate, full, and complete declaration” of any weapons of mass destruction
The U.N. resolution read, in part:
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Any failure on the part of Iraq to comply fully as required by the established dates would justify the United States and its allies to use military force in order to enforce the U.N. resolution.
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