Apparent Nerve Gas Discovery in Iraq

Drums of chemicals believed to be the nerve gas sarin and a “blister agent,” likely mustard gas, were found in northern Iraq earlier today. Soldiers also found two mobile laboratories with equipment for mixing chemicals, but they “appeared to have been ransacked by looters.”

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