In article , Chad Irby
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In article ,
Robey Price wrote:

One sarin round after 12 months, that's hardly impressive Ed.

One sarin round, of a type that Iraq never had, according to the
inspectors.

Just as a point of information, the UNSCOM report does refer to "R&D",
but not deployment, of binary chemical rounds.


If they found this one, that means there were a *lot* more that were
never even supposed to exist.

Not necessarily a lot, if they were indeed only in the R&D phase for
this particular mission. We do know that program personnel took home,
and hid, nuclear and biological components.


Therefore, there's a place with a bunch more of these things, *not*
destroyed or accounted for. This one shell, by itself, shows that Iraq
*did* have a whole segment of its chemical weapons program that was
never even touched by the UN.

Again, specifically in the case of the binary artillery shell, possibly
R&D quantities only, with a few samples hidden. That would be
consistent both with the UNSCOM report and the few components we have
found in residences.