Oops, Where Did That Poison Gas and Anthrax Go?
Blix said Iraq was unable to account for its cache of VX poison gas or its stockpile of anthrax. The VX gas, Blix told the panel, appeared to have been “weaponized.” In addition there were concerned about the fate of VX precursor chemicals, which Iraq told inspectors were lost in the Gulf War bombing or destroyed by Iraq. Iraq declared that it had destroyed its store of 8,500 liters of anthrax in 1991, but Blix said no “convincing evidence” existed of its destruction. “There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date. It might still exist,” Blix said. 29,984 Chemical Warheads Missing The U.N. report issued at the end of the 1990s found that Iraq possessed 30,000 chemical warheads, Fleischer said. But in the past eight weeks since inspectors have been back, they had found only 16 chemical warheads. “At the pace that Iraq is cooperating with the inspectors, it will take the inspec
