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US troops say they have found thousands of boxes of unidentified white powder and some nerve agent antidote at an industrial site south-west of Baghdad. They also said they discovered documents in Arabic, which apparently explain how to carry out chemical warfare. A special team has been sent to investigate the discovery at Latifiya - part of a large military complex frequently visited frequently by UN weapons inspectors before the war began. According to Reuters news agency, US troops also said they had found a second site nearby containing vials of unidentified liquid and white powder. The Iraqi authorities have not commented on the finds so far. The BBC's Paul Adams says Latifiya is part of the large Qa Qa military complex, just one of a number of sites clustered around the capital where the Iraqi government is thought to have developed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. In a separate development, US military spokesman Vincent Brooks said troops in the western desert had found what they suspected was a training school for nuclear, chemical and biological warfare. |