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February 20, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have-bought-and-destroyed-iraqi-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0

CIA Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons

(New York Times) C.J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt - The CIA, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons did not fall into the hands of terrorists, according to American officials. The arms purchase plan in 2005-6 destroyed at least 400 Borak rockets, some of which contained the nerve agent sarin.

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