U.S. KNEW IRAQI DEPOT MIGHT HOLD CHEMICAL ARMS.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times The Pentagon acknowledged Tuesday for the first time that the Army blew up a sprawling ammunition depot in southern Iraq in March 1991 even though it had information at the time suggesting that the depot might contain chemical weapons. The information from the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). , the Pentagon said, was never passed on to the battalion of American soldiers who carried out the demolition several days after the Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf War or Gulf War (1990–91) International conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Though justified by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on grounds that Kuwait was historically part of Iraq, the invasion was presumed to be ended and who may have been exposed to a cloud of nerve gas nerve gas, any of several poison gases intended for military use, e.g., tabun, sarin, soman, and VX. Nerve gases were first developed by Germany during World War II but were not used at that time. and other chemical weapons as a result. In releasing a detailed chronology of the demolition of the Kamisiyah ammunition depot, the Pentagon said that the information had been gathered in late February 1991 by the CIA and passed on to the 18th Airborne Corps, which was then in the vicinity of Kamisiyah. The war ended Feb. 28. The Pentagon's senior investigator on the issue, Bernard Rostker, said at a news conference Tuesday that he had no explanation for why the information was not also passed on to the 37th Engineer Battalion, the unit that actually destroyed the Kamisiyah depot. ``That's one of the unfortunate miscommunications here,'' he said. Those soldiers learned from the Pentagon only last year that they may have been exposed to nerve gas as a result of the blasts. Many have reported serious health problems that they believe may be connected to chemical weapons released in the destruction of the depot. The Pentagon has estimated that more than 20,000 troops may have been exposed to poison gas poison gas, any of various gases sometimes used in warfare or riot control because of their poisonous or corrosive nature. These gases may be roughly grouped according to the portal of entry into the body and their physiological effects. as a result of the explosions at Kamisiyah, although there is still no conclusive evidence CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. That which cannot be contradicted by any other evidence,; for example, a record, unless impeached for fraud, is conclusive evidence between the parties. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3061-62. that anyone was made sick as a result. |
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