Thursday, March 1, 2012

SA: Weapons discovery worrying but won't trigger war, says govt

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SA: Weapons discovery worrying but won't trigger war, says govt

By Lauren Ahwan

ADELAIDE, Jan 17 AAP - The discovery of empty chemical weapon warheads in Iraq wasworrying but did not make war inevitable, Defence Minister Robert Hill said today.

Senator Hill said the finding should be included and debated in a United Nations inspectionreport due to be delivered on January 27.

UN inspectors in Baghdad have located 11 empty 122mm chemical rocket warheads and onewarhead that required further evaluation during an inspection of a storage area.

The Iraqi government said the warheads were obsolete old stock that had been forgotten …

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