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| Iraq |
| Iraqi troops south of Baghdad armed with chemical weapons |
| 2003-03-17 |
| Senior Defense and other U.S. officials confirmed that intelligence reports indicate that Saddam Hussein's troops are armed with chemical munitions. "The information is raw, and hard to confirm ... but we are seeing — using different methods — that Saddam Hussein has armed troops south of Baghdad with chemical weapons," one official said. Officials say it's hard to tell how many of these weapons are being distributed, but the intelligence reports indicate that "some chemical shells" have been provided to troops. That's why he put Chemical Ali in charge... Senior Defense officials say they expected the Iraqis to use these weapons, and they predict more movement by Iraqi troops in the South and the West in the next day or so. Iraqi troops along the Kuwaiti border far to the south are in shooting distance of U.S. troops stationed there — but the troops with the chemical shells are further north — still in the southern no-fly zone, but south of Baghdad. I'd guess they're toast... Saddam said Monday that Iraq once had weapons of mass destruction for defense against Iran and Israel, but it no longer holds them, according to the Iraqi News Agency. "We are not weapons collectors," Saddam said in remarks during a meeting with a Tunisian envoy.. "But we had these weapons for purposes of self-defense when we were at war with Iran for eight years and when the Zionist entity (Israel) was, and it still is, a threat." One use, and we'll go nuts on them. They won't like what follows. We'll probably be sorry afterwards... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 But....they aren't supposed to have this stuff. Blixie, Kofi, and Jacques say so. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-17 20:21:26 |
| #1 But....they aren't supposed to have this stuff. Blixie, Kofi, and Jacques say so. |
| Posted by: tu3031 3/17/2003 8:21:26 PM |