[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

By C. J. CHIVERS
New York Times
October 14, 2014

The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.

...

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops  
repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded  
by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam  
Hussein’s rule.

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000  
chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews  
with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and  
heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of  
Information Act.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us- 
casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html

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Lenny Siegel
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