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To: FaultLine who started this subject3/24/2003 12:50:48 AM
From: paul_philp  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Chemical weapon find report 'premature': US
Reports that US troops have found a suspected chemical factory in Iraq were "premature", the Pentagon said today.

Officials were trying to determine whether the plant, near the city of An Najaf, which US troops reached today on a push to Baghdad, was involved in making chemical weapons, officials said.

Asked at a news conference in Qatar today about reports of the chemical plant, Lieutenant General John Abizaid of US Central Command declined comment, AP reported.

He said top Iraqi officers had been questioned about chemical weapons.

"We have an Iraqi general officer, two Iraqi general officers that we have taken prisoner, and they are providing us with information," he said said.

"Media reports are premature," the US Central Command said, in a brief statement read by Pentagon spokesman Major James Cassella. But he added: "We are looking into sites of interest."
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