[CPEO-MEF] PLAN TO DESTROY CHEMICAL WEAPONS CALLED A FAILURE

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http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0005100177,FF.html


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States probably won't meet a 2007 
deadline for destroying chemical weapons stockpiles, congressional 
investigators say, noting that only about 18 percent of the 31,496 tons 
of nerve gas, mustard gas and other chemicals have been incinerated 
since the effort began in the 1980s. 

"After two years of essentially sticking their head in the sand, they 
[military officials] have publicly admitted for the first time that they 
are not going to meet this deadline," said Sean Conway, spokesman for 
Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.), a critic of the program.

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