Polish Troops Discover Iraq Bio-Weapons
Fri Jul 2,11:02 AM ET
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland - Terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq (news - web sites), the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday.
Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw.
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Dukaczewski refused to give any further details about the terrorists or the sellers of the munitions, saying only that
his troops thwarted terrorists by purchasing the 17 rockets for a Soviet-era launcher and two mortar rounds containing the nerve agent for an undisclosed sum June 23.
AP