Terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq, the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday.
Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw.
"We were mortified by the information that terrorists were looking for these warheads and offered $5,000 apiece," Dukaczewski said. "An attack with such weapons would be hard to imagine. All of our activity was accelerated at appropriating these warheads." ....
The warheads all contained cyclosarin, multinational force commander Polish Gen. Mieczyslaw Bieniek said.
"Laboratory tests showed the presence in them of cyclosarin, a very toxic gas, five times stronger than sarin and five times more durable," Bieniek told Poland's TVN24 at the force's Camp Babylon headquarters.
"If these warheads, which were still usable, were used on a military base like Camp Babylon, they would have caused unforeseeable damage."
The tests were done by U.S. experts, who were conducting more.
The munitions were found in a bunker in the Polish sector, but Polish officials refused to be more specific."
Michael Moore and/or Fiberals should have told the Polish that there are no WMD in Iraq.
There are a million stories of uncommon valour and bravery associated with WWll but one image that has never left my memory was when I read about the indubitable spirit of the Polish Army that marched out to face the German blitzkrieg. Poland had not modernized their army beyond their WWl capacity. It was inevitable that when the Polish Cavalry faced off against German tanks racing across the border that they would fail. The miraculous was not that the Polish Army fell to the German onslaught, but how long they managed to hold off the inevitable.
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