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[Previous entry: "The Grey (alien) and the Blue (whale)"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Ghoul: a legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses"] 10 January 2004: "Breaking news"
One of my Nordic readers gave me a heads-up regarding reports that Danish and Icelandic EOD personnel had recovered a batch of mortar shells near Basra, which appear to contain mustard gas. By now, the BBC has picked up the story (though at time of writing, CNN has not). It's hardly earth-shaking—we're talking 36 120mm mortar shells which appear to have been buried ten or more years ago—but we can expect a quick moving of the goalposts by the "there aren't any WMDs in Iraq" crowd if this report pans out. |
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