LeJoker schrieb am 24.12.2024 14:01:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/irak-daenische-soldaten-finden-mehr-als-100-giftgasgranaten-a-281404.html
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Iraq: U.S. Experts Find No Chemical Agents In Suspect Shells
Prague, 19 January 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Tests by U.S. weapons experts have determined that a recently discovered stockpile of Iraqi mortar shells did not contain a chemical warfare agent, as initially suspected.One week ago, Danish soldiers found 36 mortar shells wrapped in plastic and buried beneath a road construction site north of Al-Basrah. Danish Army Colonel Henrik Friis told reporters at the time that the discovery appeared to be significant.
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Apelgaard says the negative laboratory results have both the Danish and British forces wondering why their initial field tests were wrong.
Those living near the discovery site, which is near the Iraq-Iranian border, say there was heavy fighting in the area between Iraqi and Iranian forces in 1984. Kemp suggests several possibilities linked to that conflict: "Those agents could have been used [in the area] during the 1980-88 conflict. They could have been used in the region and, hence, the soil itself could have been contaminated. [Blister gas] contamination remains in the soil for quite some time, particularly if it were to be something like a filled-in gun position or a filled-in trench where the agent would be trapped at the bottom of the trench or the bottom of the pit. Another reason is that the 120-millimeter mortar ammunition could have been stored with other ammunition which actually contained chemical agents. The coalition forces know from inspections of some of the chemical munitions after the 1990-91 conflict that many of them were in a very, very poor condition. They were very badly corroded, and the chemical agents had leaked from them."
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