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To: combjelly who wrote (790795)	6/19/2014 4:59:58 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584250

>> The only remaining chemical weapons were in a bunker that was damaged during the Gulf War and sealed by UNSCOM. There is no sign that Iraq has built any chemical weapons since the early 1990's. But there were chemical weapons found in 2006, and while in a degraded condition would have still been valuable in the hands of terrorists. And it proof that (a) they existed, and (b) can be difficult to find and in fact, Blix didn't find them. Whether those were the "only" remaining chemical weapons is not known.

To: combjelly who wrote (790795)	6/19/2014 9:09:27 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1584250

Hi combjelly; Re: "Most of the weapons were destroyed by UNSCOM in 1992-1994. From documents seized after the war, Iraq unilaterally and secretly destroyed the rest. "; They also lost some, as in forgot where they put them. And some people destroyed some without keeping good records. Military personnel are the worst accountants. The US lost a lot of its WMDs that were stockpiled (but never used) for WW2. Every now and then an abandoned pile of them are discovered and they have to be disarmed. One of the useful things the scientists were doing was x-raying old rusty munitions so as to figure out which type they are (and therefore, how to safely get rid of them). -- Carl