Hiding in plain sight II
Ever since the sarin filled 155 mm artillery shell was found, I have maintained that the WMD was made to look like ordinary ammo. Now Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough have found someone else who thinks so.
Hopefully the Iraq Survey Group will be inspecting all the 155 mm ammo stocks.
Ever since the sarin filled 155 mm artillery shell was found, I have maintained that the WMD was made to look like ordinary ammo. Now Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough have found someone else who thinks so.
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, warned months ago that Iraq's hidden weapons of mass destruction may be intermingled with its huge stocks of conventional arms.
Mr. Shaw wrote an Oct. 28 letter to Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the U.S. Central Command, asking for the command's help in tracking down companies and individuals who violated U.S. law and the international arms embargo by shipping arms to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Mr. Shaw stated in the letter that he had information showing "there is a high probability of [weapons of mass destruction] munitions being intermingled everywhere in Iraq with conventional weapons."
That scenario played this month when two chemical munitions — one containing the blister agent mustard and one containing the nerve agent sarin — were found by U.S. forces in Iraq.
The improvised bomb found Saturday was a 155 mm artillery shell that insurgents apparently did not know was filled with two chemicals that make sarin when the round is fired. The shell partially exploded and a small quantity of sarin was released, slightly injuring two U.S. soldiers.
Hopefully the Iraq Survey Group will be inspecting all the 155 mm ammo stocks.
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