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Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, July 02, 2004

We've found them! Wait, maybe not

From Fox News:
Terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin (search) that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq, the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday.

Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein's (search) war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw.

"We were mortified by the information that terrorists were looking for these warheads and offered $5,000 apiece," Dukaczewski said. "An attack with such weapons would be hard to imagine. All of our activity was accelerated at appropriating these warheads."

However...
...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.

The time on the Yahoo! article is 2:44ET. It is now about 6:30 on the east coast, and FOX still has a front page link to the article "Poles Find Sarin Warheads." There is still no mention in the article to the negative tests.