Coalition forces in Iraq find sarin gas device
Monday, May 17, 2004 Posted: 10:50 AM EDT (1450 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American-led coalition forces in Iraq found sarin gas in an artillery round that was rigged as an improvised explosive device, U.S. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Monday.
The device went off before it could be disabled, Kimmitt said, causing a "small dispersal" of the nerve agent. Two members of an explosives ordnance team were treated for minor exposure, he said.
Kimmitt said the artillery round was of an old style that Saddam Hussein's regime had declared it no longer had after the Persian Gulf War. He said it was designed to explode after being fired from an artillery piece and that its effectiveness as an improvised explosive device was "limited."
Kimmitt did not say where the weapon was found nor did he say if it originated in Iraq.
Go on. Go on and repeat that bullsh*t about how Saddam didn't have WMD's and we just "made it all up." I double-dare you.
Posted by Thief at May 17, 2004 10:58 AM