American newspaper: Pentagon “withheld” information on injuries with chemical weapons in Iraq
American newspaper: Pentagon “withheld” information on injuries with chemical weapons in Iraq
10/16/2014 14:32 GMT
Follow-up – and babysit – The newspaper “New York Times” that a number of members of the American military and the Iraqi police were wounded in a series of accidents as a result of exposure to the remnants of chemical weapons in the period between 2004 and 2011, noting that those weapons were packaged Eemiaoa in Iraq after he designed in America and manufactured in Europe.
And the relocation of “BBC” for the American newspaper as saying that the Ministry of Defense, “Pentagon” remained silent on those incidents that resulted from the manufacture of weapons of Saddam’s regime during the war imposed on Iran in the eighties of the last century.
The newspaper based its report to the dozens of pages of confidential documents and interviews conducted with soldiers and officials, figuring out where the owners of the certificates of soldiers and police officers for about 5 thousands of warheads or bombs or shells.
The paper said: Nearly 17 American soldiers and seven Iraqi officers pointed to the exposure to injury in six separate incidents, at least.
According to reports that some of those weapons in the United States are designed and manufactured in Europe, and was loaded with chemicals produced in Iraq from components purchased in some cases from the United States.
Saddam had made those weapons to be used against Iranian forces during the Iran-Iraq war in the eighties of the last century. Also used chemical weapons against the Kurds in Halabja in eastern Iraq bombing, which occurred in 1988 in the last period of the Gulf War (Persian) first.
And in 1991 destroyed most of the chemical arsenal of Saddam’s regime. However, thousands of shells found buried or hidden in secret places until found by American troops after 2003.
And lacked documentation processes Weapons found for accuracy. In some cases, soldiers resorted to destruction of chemical weapons on their own without the aid of special teams.
The paper said: The Pentagon withheld information from the public and Congress about what had been found, including data on the number of warheads discovered.
He had found many of the old chemical weapons on the MSE government, which was described as a center for the production of such weapons in the eighties.
It is reported that since June last subject gunmen seized control of the headquarters of the terrorist group Daash.
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