Tests Show No Agent in Iraq Mortar Shells

World | January 14, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00

Tests by Danish and American experts indicate there is no chemical agent in mortar shells unearthed last week in southern Iraq but more testing is needed to confirm the findings, the Danish military reported Wednesday. The preliminary findings cast doubt whether the suspicious shells will become the "smoking gun" proving that Iraq still maintained supplies of banned chemical weapons when the United States and its allies launched the war last March.

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