Possible WMD 'cocktail' found
07/04/2003 19:26  - (SA)  

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Baghdad - Tests on mystery substances found at a military training camp in central Iraq have shown banned chemical weapons, says a US military chief.

Major Michael Hamlet said the initial tests revealed levels of nerve agents sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite

Hamlet, of the 101st Airborne Division, said a team of experts would carry out further tests on the substances.

The results of the second test should be known by Tuesday at the earliest he said.

They were discovered at the camp in Albu Mahawish, on the Euphrates River between the central Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Hilla.

He added: "If tests from our experts confirm this, this could be the smoking gun.

"It would prove (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) has the weapons we have said he has all along," Hamlet said. "But right now we just don't know."

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