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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46186)	5/18/2004 6:06:55 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

US says shell with sarin explodes in Iraq BAGHDAD: A small amount of the nerve agent sarin was found in a shell that exploded in Iraq, the US army said on Monday, the first announcement of the discovery of any of the weapons on which Washington made its case for war. The incident occurred "a couple of days ago," said Brig-Gen Mark Kimmit, US military spokesman. The sarin was inside an artillery shell that had been rigged as a bomb. It was discovered by a US convoy and exploded before it could be defused. The explosion released a very small amount of sarin, Kimmit said, adding that he believed the insurgents who rigged the shell as a bomb didn’t know it contained the nerve agent. The sarin explosion was confirmed by the Iraqi Survey Group, a US organisation whose task was to search for weapons of mass destruction after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. "The Iraq Survey Group has confirmed today that a 155 (mm) artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found," he said. "The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive devices) that was discovered by a US force convoy," he added. "A detonation occurred before the IED be could be rendered inoperable," Kimmitt said, adding that two members of an explosives team had been treated for exposure to the substance. Kimmitt said the round, designed to mix the sarin in flight, belonged to a class of ordnance the Saddam government claimed to have destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war. "It is a weapon that we believe was stocked from the ex-regime time, and it had been thought to be an ordinary artillery shell set up to explode like an ordinary IED," he said. "When it exploded it indicated that it actually had some sarin in it." Former top US weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, said it was possible the shell was an old relic overlooked when Saddam said he had destroyed such weapons in the mid-1990s. Kay, in a phone interview with The Associated Press, said he doubted the shell or the nerve agent came from a hidden stockpile, although he didn’t rule out that possibility. And former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, speaking to The Associated Press in Sweden, agreed the shell was likely a stray weapon scavenged from a dump and did not signify that Iraq had large stockpiles of such weapons.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46186)	5/18/2004 9:57:22 AM
From: malibuca	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Would you still support Democrats whose icon had destroyed the sanctity of the Oval office so deficiently. ? Would you have felt that if the conservative media had chosen to publicize this sort of presidential carnalism ......... This is an easy one! The press should be free to report on ALL things. Whether it is Clinton or any other public official accused of wrong-doing, they do not have any right to have their actions shielded from public scrutiny. Now, ask me another - and make it more challenging next time.