Iraq's Bioweapons Program Started with Germs Supplied by U.S.

(ABC News/AP) - In the 1980s, when the United States supported Iraq in its war against Iran, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and a biological sample company sent Iraq strains of all the germs it used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin, and the germs that cause gas gangrene.


2002-10-03 00:00:00

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