U.S. Experts Say Arms Found Were Unusable
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq were produced before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and probably are so old they couldn’t be used as designed, U.S. intelligence officials said. A summary of a declassified intelligence report released this week said coalition forces had recovered about 500 munitions with mustard or sarin agents.
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