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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (9054)	4/7/2003 10:37:13 AM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

We're beginning to find that stuff "Saddam didn't have": story.news.yahoo.com <<U.S. May Have Found Iraqi WMD Storage Site NEAR BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. biological and chemical weapons experts believe they may have found an Iraqi storage site for weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a U.S. officer told Reuters on Monday. A military source who declined to be identified said there were unconfirmed reports there could be sarin -- a highly lethal nerve agent that causes death by suffocation -- at the site. Iraq (news - web sites) is believed to have used sarin against Kurdish Iraqis in the 1980s. "Our detectors have indicated something," said Maj. Ross Coffman, a public affairs officer with the U.S. 3rd Infantry. "We're talking about finding a site of possible WMD storage. This is an initial report, but it could be a smoking gun," he said, adding that the site was south of the central Iraqi town of Hindiyah. "It is not as if there is a cloud of gas hanging everywhere endangering soldiers lives. We're talking about a facility," Coffman added. The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) denies having. U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Iraq after a four-year absence in November to look for banned chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Inspectors had not found any such weapons when their search abruptly ended when U.S.-led troops attacked Iraq on March 20. On Saturday, a U.S. officer said that first tests of a suspicious white powder and liquid found on Friday in thousands of boxes south of Baghdad indicated it was not a chemical weapon. Over the weekend, U.S. Marines in the central Iraqi town of Aziziyah began digging up a suspected chemical weapons hiding place at a girl's school. The dig began after U.S. forces received information from an Iraqi who described himself as a former special forces member. 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.