It is believed to have stockpiles of mustard gas and the highly toxic nerve agent, sarin.
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Despite the difficulty of access, inspectors had uncovered tons of deadly chemicals, among them mustard gas.
He died before I was born of lung disease due to the mustard gas.
The dust was mustard gas, but most civilians did not recognize the danger until symptoms appeared hours later.
It was Germany's devastating use of mustard gas in the trenches of the First World War which prompted Britain's research.
The details are secret, but a system which responds to mustard gas has been devised, and others are under development.
Well, that would appear to have been the incontrovertible upshot of the two recent episodes, involving sarin and mustard gas weapons.
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An investigating judge ruled he was poisoned with thallium and mustard gas.
Syria holds stockpiles that experts say include Sarin, VX and mustard gas.
According to intelligence-based reports in the mid-1990s, Syria had accumulated hundreds of tonnes of skin-blistering mustard gas and sarin, a lethal nerve agent.
The exact number killed is not known, but ran into the thousands as townspeople choked on a mixture of mustard gas and nerve agents.
The paper contains references to the production of mustard gas and sarin as well as to the participation of the Imhausen and IBI companies.
Military and armaments experts say the government started to stockpile chemical weapons in the late 1970's, and now possesses or is capable of producing VS agents, sarin and mustard gas.
This, he believes, will make it possible to work out which country, even which factory, supplied the original chemicals for the mustard gas - it will not be possible to trace the source of the nerve agents.
There had been earlier outrage over the discovery on August 4th of a dump of mustard gas containers in the north-eastern city of Qiqihar, left behind by the Japanese at the end of the second world war.
But Iraq never accounted for all the 100, 000 chemical weapons it produced for use in the Iran-Iraq war, and there are fears that thousands of them, filled with either deadly VX or mustard gas, could be squirreled away.
The document is said to lack any explanation for what has happened to certain equipment and arms, such as shells filled with mustard gas, that had remained unaccounted for even when weapons inspectors were last in Iraq in the late 1990s.
The Iraqi declaration is said to lack any explanation for what has happened to certain equipment and arms, such as shells filled with mustard gas, that had remained unaccounted for even when weapons inspectors were last in Iraq in the late 1990s.
This was just at the time when the Reagan administration had become aware of which intelligence agencies that Iraq has started using chemical weapons because the first recorded and really seriously documented use of mustard gas was in July, August of 1983.
His father, a strict disciplinarian, first placed his hopes in the oldest son, Reginald, but he had gone off to fight in World War I and came home incapacitated, one lung destroyed by mustard gas, leaving the family's future to Albert, who was twelve years younger but precociously eager.
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Ziopharm devised a new version of an old mustard-gas based drug.
But there is hardly any sympathy among Iraqis for Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who earned the nickname "Chemical Ali" for the enthusiasm he exhibited in ordering mustard and sarin gas attacks that killed thousands of Kurdish civilians in 1988.
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