By contrast, in the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein did not use poison gas against our troops.
Undeterred by that treaty, Saddam used poison gas against Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war.
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There were fearsome enough weapons before World War II, including poison gas and germ warfare.
In war, his forces flouted any constraints, employing poison gas, mistreating prisoners and devastating occupied Kuwait.
Iraq's former president is on trial for the deaths of 180, 000 people, many killed by poison gas.
Posters will include tips such as running away from poison gas or using handkerchiefs as improvised masks.
"The symptoms she displayed - unconsciousness, vomiting, pinpoint pupils - they all correspond to poison gas exposure, " he says.
And soon a dictator who had used poison gas on his own people was found cowering in the earth.
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An estimated 5, 000 people, mostly women and children, were killed when Iraqi jets dropped poison gas on the town.
Iraq's poison gas and Iran's missiles would, you might think, be regarded as a threat by their immediate neighbours.
We have verified Iraq's use of poison gas and don't need more verification.
According to press reports, this includes the transfer of a complete poison gas facility and an array of missile technology.
In deference to Saddam, the assembled delegates never mentioned the clear-cut, uncontestable U.N. verification that proved Iraq had used poison gas.
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They dismantled uranium-enrichment and other nuclear weapons installations and destroyed a chemical weapons plant and hundreds of missile warheads armed with poison gas.
Long before Saddam Hussein, Iraq signed the Geneva Convention promising never to use poison gas, but Saddam used it extensively in his war with Iran.
Yet to many Shia and Kurds, Hashim is simply a Saddam-era war criminal who was directly involved in the decisions to use poison gas against Kurdish civilians.
Even though top Iraqi leaders, including Saddam, could be in mortal danger from a U.S.-led invasion, Blix said pride may keep them from using poison gas against advancing allied troops.
We remember the poison gas, the moonscape of shattered trees and churned-up earth, the incompetent leadership that could imagine no way of conducting the war other than repeated frontal attacks.
With the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) awaiting action by the U.S. Senate, the treaty's supporters are asserting that the Tokyo subway poison gas attack demonstrates the need for U.S. ratification.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, to give his proper name, is Saddam Hussein's cousin, and he ordered the use of poison gas to kill as many as 180, 000 Kurdish men, women, and children.
He used poison gas to rub human rights violations into the skin and eyes of Iraq's own people, all there in the open, for the international media to film and to smell.
She notified her local bobby who quickly followed up resulting in the discovery of a terror cell that was preparing a poison gas attack that could have killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of Londoners.
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Another might be fear that the aliens would retaliate with even more devastating weapons, in the same way that no one used poison gas in World War II for fear of the consequences.
It tells the story of real-life SS officer Kurt Gerstein, who tries to tell the world, and the Vatican in particular, about the Holocaust while simultaneously supplying poison gas to the Nazi camps.
The Spanish authorities have said they want to interview the eight detainees about a plot to make one or more suicide attacks in Europe, using poison gas possibly cyanide before the end of this year.
Those charges implicated him in the killings of up to 100, 000 Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurdish rebels -- a campaign that included the use of poison gas against Kurdish towns in northern Iraq.
Saddam Hussein's government went even further, using Iraqi oil revenues to finance the military campaigns that destroyed more than 4, 500 Kurdish villages and to pay for the poison gas used to kill thousands of Kurdish civilians.
Smith notes that just a few weeks ago, a number of al-Qaeda operatives based in Iraq were caught before they were able to carry out a plot aimed at killing tens of thousands of Jordanians with poison gas.
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There was, initially at least, much rejoicing among the guardsmen last year when the national defence panel, a group of experts with a mandate to review the country's military priorities, called for greater emphasis on countering poison gas or germ warfare attacks at home.
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Today, at the dawn of a new century, we had the opportunity to forge a widening international commitment to begin banishing poison gas from the earth, even as we know it remains a grave, grave threat in the hands of rogue states or terrorist groups.
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