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Mortar shells found in southern Iraq by the Danish military do not appear to contain chemical weapon agents as originally suspected, Fox News has learned.
After a 16-man team from theIraqi Survey Group (search) was sent to the scene to examine the mortar shells, tests of five of them yielded no traces of chemical agent, a Danish military official told Fox on Wednesday.
Initial testing by the Danes and the British indicated that the set of 36 shells possibly contained blister gas, a type of chemical weapon agent.
That begs the question, what exactly was the liquid in those shells?
I actually don't know. Most explosive and smoke agents are solids. Training rounds perhaps? Who the heck knows. Now Iraq itself claimed it had lost track of several hundred shells during the Iraq-Iran war. So some creaky old rusty shells are bound to be found eventually.
But it hasn't happened yet.