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The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
- MAY 2004 Two soldiers exposed to sarin from a shell near Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighborhood.
- SUMMER 2006 Over 2,400 nerve-agent rockets found at this former Republican Guard compound.
- JULY 2008 Six Marines exposed to mustard agent from an artillery shell at an abandoned bunker.
- AUGUST 2008 Five American soldiers exposed to mustard agent while destroying a weapons cache.
- 2010 OR EARLY 2011 Hundreds of mustard rounds discovered in a container at this Iraqi security compound.