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The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons
(New York Times) C.J. Chivers - From 2004 to 2011, American and Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from Saddam Hussein's rule. In all, American troops secretly reported finding 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs. The New York Times found 17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers who were exposed to nerve or mustard agents after 2003. The scale of U.S. encounters with chemical weapons in Iraq carries worrisome implications now that the Islamic State controls much of the territory where the weapons were found.