On Mon, 17 May 2004 12:56:39 -0400, Walt wrote:


"I think all of us have known that because of the sheer volume of
artillery (containing agents like sarin that were in the Iraqi arsenal
prior to the Gulf War) ... that there were likely to be some of these
still around Iraq," he told MSNBC TV. "But (the discovery) doesn't
speak to the issue of whether weapons of mass destruction were still
being produced in Iraq in the mid-1990s."

Exactly:

"However, a senior coalition source has told the BBC the round does not
signal the discovery of weapons of mass destruction or the escalation of
insurgent activity."

"He said the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials
were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3722255.stm