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Chemical Weapons Articles

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  • Verbatim: Jan. 22, 2007
    Jan. 22, 2007
    "It exterminates thousands and forces them not to eat or drink, and they will have to evacuate their homes without taking anything with them, until we can finally purge them." SADDAM HUSSEIN, the late Iraqi dictator, on a tape recorded in the 1980s that reveals his plans to murder Kurds with chemical weapons. The recording ...
  • The Search for a Poison Antidote
    Jan. 16, 1989 | By Jill Smolowe
    If good intentions could stop the proliferation of chemical weapons, the scourge would have been cleaned up long ago. Over the past 63 years, 131 nations have signed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which outlaws the use of poison gases. Yet at least 17 countries are believed to possess chemical weapons. They were most recently used ...
  • On The (Paper) Trail
    Jan. 27, 2003 | By Massimo Calabresi; Meenakshi Ganguly; J.F.O. McAllister; Marguerite Michaels
    The Al-Aukhaider ammunition dump sits next to an old mud fort in the desert, about 100 miles outside Baghdad, with only camels for company--unless U.N. weapons inspectors come calling. On their second visit, last week, the inspectors found 11 rocket warheads, which, portable X-ray machines revealed, were designed to deliver chemical weapons. (Sources say they ...
  • DISARMAMENT: Ban on Biologicals
    Aug. 16, 1971
    As they emerged from a conference room in Geneva's Palais des Nations, Soviet Ambassador Aleksei Roshchin and U.S. Ambassador James Leonard made no effort to conceal their delight. They had just agreed on a draft treaty banning the development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons, and pledged to negotiate another treaty forbidding chemical weapons. Said ...
  • Blogcheck: Nov. 28, 2005
    Nov. 28, 2005
    A year ago, when the U.S. military denied using chemical weapons in the Fallujah offensive, the Pentagon said white phosphorus (WP) was used only to illuminate the enemy's position. So when DAILY KOS this month unearthed an article from the Army's Field Artillery magazine in which Fallujah vets described WP "'shake and bake' missions"--to flush ...
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