A Very Dirty War
August, 1995
It was evident before the Persian Gulf war that Saddam Hussein was willing to deploy the chemical weapons the U.S. had helped supply him during his long war with Iran and his fight with the Kurds. Not publicly known was the extent of his resources in this area.In 1991, when United Nations inspection teams investigated Iraq's stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, here are a few of the things they found: 75 tons of sarin (the deadly nerve agent used in March's Tokyo subway attack--half a...
