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To: NickSE who wrote (89939)4/5/2003 1:24:59 PM
From: NickSE  Respond to of 281500
 
Marines Dig at Suspected Iraq Chemical Arms Site
abcnews.go.com

April 5 - AZIZIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Marines were digging up a suspected chemical weapons hiding place at an Iraqi school on Saturday, describing it as one of the most likely concealment sites discovered in a so far fruitless hunt.

Based on information from a local Iraqi who described himself as a former special forces member, the Marines descended on the courtyard of the girls' school in central Iraq and began hacking through a plate of concrete with pickaxes and shovels.

The informant told the Marines that a team of Iraqi officials broke through the wall of the school two months ago to truck in material and buried it under new concrete -- about the size of two tennis courts -- in the course of three nights.....