Judging The Case

Graphic: (map/text) Lethal Ingredients: Chemical Weapons: Powell's Case:

LETHAL INGREDIENTS: CHEMICAL WEAPONS

·POWELL'S CASE:"No country has had more battlefield experience with chemical weapons since World War I than Saddam Hussein's Iraq," said Powell, citing vast chemical-munitions stockpiles dating back to the Iran-Iraq War. He also played a recording of a Republican Guard officer relaying orders to avoid using the term "nerve agents."
·THE BOTTOM LINE:U.N. Inspectors said they verified the destruction of almost all Iraqi chemical weapons and ingredients after Operation Desert Storm. By now, any leftover supplies would have degraded beyond use. This time out, U.N. inspectors have found no evidence of toxic munitions at the alleged chemical-warfare facilities pinpointed by U.S. and British intelligence.

MAP: IRAQ (With location of Al Musayyib)