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| Hey!!! You guys didn’t tell us you had 155mm Munitions!! |
| 2004-05-20 |
| Hugh Hewitt has this link on his site today and I thought most of you would be intrested in this article. Along with the links. Iraq never declared any binary 155mm artillery shells. In fact, they never claimed any filled with sarin at all in the UNSCOM Final report (Find on "Munitions declared by Iraq as remaining"). Not declared as existing at the end of the Gulf War, not having been destroyed in the Gulf War, not having been destroyed unilaterally. The only binary munitions claimed by the Iraqis were aerial bombs and missile warheads. Not in an artillery shell. According to this UNSCOM factsheet (PDF): Iraqi CW agents were not comparable in quality to those stored in the arsenals of the USA and the former USSR, however. Impurities meant that the toxic compounds lacked stability and easily decomposed; as a consequence, Iraq developed a crude type of binary munition, whereby the final mixing of the two precursors to the agent was done inside the munition just before delivery. This had a major impact on the logistics of and preparations for chemical warfare, which may partly explain how overwhelming coalition air superiority prevented the use of CW during Operation Desert Storm. |
| Posted by:Long Hair Republican |
| #1 Of course, if we had real news media in this country, this would be news. So, can I expect this factoid to appear on CNN...MSNBC...any of the networks? ....didn't think so. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-05-20 3:21:28 PM |