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in College Park, Md., combined with exclusive interviews with former
intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United
States’ knowledge of how and when Iraq employed the deadly chemical and nerve agents. They show that
senior U.S. officials were being regularly informed about the scale of the
nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount to an official American admission of
complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched.
Top
CIA officials, including the Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey,
a close friend of President Ronald Reagan, were told about the location of
Iraqi chemical weapons assembly plants; that Iraq was desperately trying to
make enough mustard agent to keep up with frontline demand from its forces;
that Iraq was about to buy equipment from Italy to help speed up production of
chemical-packed artillery rounds and bombs; and that Iraq could also use nerve
agents on Iranian troops and possibly civilians.
The
use of chemical weapons in war is banned under the Geneva
Protocolof 1925, which states that parties "will exert every
effort to induce other States to accede to the" agreement. Iraq never
ratified the protocol; the United States did in 1975. The Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the
production and use of such arms, wasn’t passed until 1997, years after the
incidents in question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwI3iPzAYJshttps://www.pri.org/stories/2013-08-26/us-role-chemical-attacks-during-iran-iraq-war
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/
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