[CPEO-MEF] Offshore chemical weapons duming - abroad

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. DIDN'T DUMP CHEMICAL ARMS OFF JUST ITS OWN SHORES

SPECIAL REPORT, PART 2: The Deadliness Below

Overseas, fishermen have been hurt by chemical weapons the United States
secretly sank, from the Riviera to Australia.

BY JOHN M.R. BULL 
Newport News Daily Press
October 31 2005

As World War II drew to a close, the Army was faced with scant storage
space in ordnance depots at home and huge chemical weapons stockpiles overseas.

The solution: Dump the weapons off the coast of whatever country they
were in.

The result: U.S.-made weapons of mass destruction litter the coasts of
more than 11 countries - including Italy, France, India, Australia, the
Philippines, Japan, Denmark and Norway, according to a 2001 Army report
recently released to the Daily Press.

The chemical weapons remain there to this day. And they're extremely dangerous.

Some of them have washed up on shore or been dredged up by fishermen. At
least 200 people have been seriously injured over the years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02774sy0oct31,0,4689373.story?coll=dp-widget-news

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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