July 04, 2004

Poland stands by 'poison gas' find Iraq

Political and military officials in Poland Saturday reaffirmed that missile warheads found by Polish troops in Iraq contained poison gas, despite denials by the multinational forces in Baghdad.

"In each of the missiles found, the presence of a chemical substance was found. It was cyclosarin," a spokesman for the Polish contingent in Iraq, Colonel Robert Strzelecki, told public television.

"They were missiles that were made 15 years ago, which should have been destroyed and were not. They would certainly have very dangerous had they fallen into the hands of terrorists," said deputy defense minister Janusz Zemke.

Washington announced on Thursday that Polish troops had discovered more than a dozen warheads containing mustard or sarin gas in Iraq, a report later confirmed by Polish Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski.

The head of Poland's military intelligence service also said on Friday that "terrorist" groups were seeking to acquire the weapons.

Of course, Agence France Press, like its Leftist brethren AP, Reuters and the BBC, puts sneer quotes around the term terrorist.
Well good work, Poland and this isn't the first time you've done something terrific in Iraq for the Coalition!
And stand firm on your discovery--the Left will either deny these reports, as they've done in this case, or won't have their media organs carry it, anyway.
We know Saddam had those WMDs (and not just from poor beleaguered Chalabi, either) and they're going to turn up somewhere in or near Iraq and someday soon (probably in Syria), but I hope that again, it's the troops on our side that find them before they're used.