"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message .. .
"Glenn Dowdy" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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Further, there is
no indication they were "stolen"; in fact, it would appear they were
intentionally hidden, so your analogy is not too accurate IMO.

I don't know the details of the exact find, but I've seen "buried". In my
experience, Sgt Rock and Pvt Snuffy may well interpret their orders to
destroy or get rid of something by burying it.

Wrapped up neatly in mylar, huh? Regardless, they were not *accounted for*
by Saddam in his numerous "disclosure" statements. Bad on him.

Brooks

Well the AP is reporting that the mortar shells, on further
examination, do not contain blister agents or other banned weapons.
False alarm here as the field testing gear is understandably hyper
sensistive and designed to go "PING, PING, PING" at the slightest hint
of something nasty. The specialist equipment in the exploitation
units have detected no sign of blister agents. There is one more
round of testing to be done in CONUS, but it looks like a false alarm.

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._mortar_shells

Second point; in the previous posts some people poohawed the idea that
Iraq declared at any point that it lost track of shells. Well they
did, from Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/10/212436/884)
and the UN interim report as of March 6,2003
(p.76)http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/docu...rch%200 3.pdf

There were about 550 shells unaccounted for out of the ~13,000 that
were declared as filled with mustard gas by 1991. So yes, there were
chemical weapons shells that just got lost and unaccounted for in the
past.




Glenn D.