Reuters Monday, April 7, 2003; 10:25 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday. NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements." It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport. U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar had no immediate comment. The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies having such weapons.
Sorry, but that link does not post the whole news article. Do you think this important news deserves its own thread, or should we keep this buried as off topic material in an unrelated thread?
Read the second post in that thread. It posts almost word for word what you posted above With the exception of the last 2 sentences. And the thread is titled US may have found WMD. How is that unrelated to them finding Chem. Weapons? Aren't they the same thing?
