BAGHDAD (AFP) - Multinational forces in Iraq (news - web sites) said that more than a dozen missile warheads said to contain mustard gas or sarin have tested negative for chemical agents.
Washington had announced the find by Polish troops on Thursday, which was later confirmed by Warsaw.
The head of Poland's military intelligence service also said on Friday that "terrorist" groups were seeking to acquire the weapons.
But the 122mm warheads, found in late June, have been found not to contain the deadly chemicals, a statement from multinational forces here said.
"Those 16 rounds were all empty and tested negative for any type of chemicals," it said.
Two other warheads found in mid-June were found to contain an insignificant amount of sarin gas. The armaments were left over from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, the statement said.
"Due to the deteriorated state of the rounds and small quantity of remaining agent, these rounds were determined to have limited to no impact if used by insurgents against coalition forces."
Washington justified leading the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by claiming the country was harbouring weapons of mass destruction. However, none has yet been found.
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What's so funny about this is that this latest find was supposed to be definitive slam dunk that would . Cries of "WE TOLD YOU SO" came from the neocon camp, but, as usual, the smoking gun turned out to be a sham.
Now, we have caught Rumsfeld saying that the polish found sarin and mustard gas in these warheads. So... we know that either Rummy or the polish lied. As in L to the I to the E,
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"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Seriously, remember back when a possible find was almost front-page news? Even Fox doesn't stick this stuff up in big red letters anymore because everyone's realized that there simply aren't any WMDs in Iraq.
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-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
Seriously, remember back when a possible find was almost front-page news? Even Fox doesn't stick this stuff up in big red letters anymore because everyone's realized that there simply aren't any WMDs in Iraq.
Actually, Fox did have it on their website- in small font that is.
