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U.S. forces may have (illegal) chemical weapons capability in Iraq

Wikileaks has a report, “U.S. Military Equipment in Iraq (2007),” based on leaked documents, outlining the array and cost of equipment held by United States forces in Iraq:

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Important points (on our first reading) include: Chemical and biological weapons portable facilities

The United States has been caught with at least 2,386 low-grade chemical weapons deployed in Iraq. The items appear in a spectacular 2,000 page leak of nearly one million items of US military equipment deployed in Iraq given to the government transparency group Wikileaks

. The items are labeled under the military’s own NATO supply classificationChemical weapons and equipment. Continue reading