AP/Reuters Says Blackhawk Hostile Fire Loss and First Chem Munitions Found

The rounds were found from former swamp bed (Saddam dried these swamps
in
effort to catch the Shiia rebels after 1991) and were estimated to be
10+
years old by US specialists.

Uhmm...the last I heard the dating was inconclusive as of yet, with
various
sources making differing claims, from "ten years" (which would of course
have been *after* ODS--it could be over *thirteen* years old and still
have
been a post-ODS cache), to "the Iran-Iraq War". In the end, it does not
really matter--Saddam turned in repeated and differing accounts detailing
his alleged destruction of WMD...do you think he listed any of it as "Gee,
we lost it and don't know *where* it is"? I doubt it. Face it, he did not
meet the requirements.

I believe he claimed to have destroyed or disposed of those weapons, but not
so surprisingly no one believed him.