Jim, first of all I would not call old rusty artillery shells wmd's... Those shells were from the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war as far as I can tell.
And maybe the non-story is due to the chance they have US finger prints on them, as back then S. Hussein was our best buddy...
Funny that the Danes were the ones to find them, but they have a policy of not putting their troops in a line of fire situation.
Anyway, to me that is a non-story in that those were old, rusty & crusty ordinance that is good for one thing, scrap..
So, they found rusting junk...
BTW, the US WMD search team has gone home..
A 400-strong US military team that has been searching for illicit weapons in Iraq have been withdrawn after finding nothing of substance, although a separate group looking for weapons of mass destruction still remains in the country, The New York Times reported.
"They picked up everything that was worth picking up," one US official told the daily, referring to the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Group, made up of technical experts headed by an unidentified Australian brigadier.
The team's task included searching weapons depots and other sites for missile launchers that might have been used with illicit weapons, another also unidentified Defense Department official was quoted as saying.
The withdrawal of the 400-member military team was seen by some military officials as a sign that the US government may no longer expect to uncover chemical or biological weapons in Iraq, the daily said.
A separate military team tasked with disposing of chemical or biological weapons in Iraq remains part of the 1,400-member Iraq Survey Group that has been searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq since Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was overthrown, a member of the survey group said.
However he told the paper that the group in question, known as Task Force D/E, for disablement and elimination, was "still waiting for something to dispose of." |
