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...committed, unlike in Lebanon. And yet the ferocity and scale of this war have been great, and if Iran wins the worldwide repercussions will be severe. Iran has fielded a half-million man army. Casualty estimates run into the tens of thousands. Iraq now seems to be using deadly mustard gas on a large scale. And a victory for the fundamentalist regime of Ayatolah Khomeini would directly threaten the oil-rich kingdoms of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan...
...offer of weapons to King Hussein. Iraq is not even one of the so-called moderate Arab states. The minority-supported regime in Iraq practices some of the most brutal and oppressive internal policies of any country in the world--a claim supported by their use of mustard gas, which was outlawed after World War I in a treaty ratified by Iraq...
...Mustard gas, first used by Germany during World War I, was banned under the Geneva Convention of 1925, which both Iran and Iraq signed. But many countries maintain stockpiles of the gas for possible retaliation in time of war. Iraq is believed to have started developing its own chemical capability in the 1960s, using Soviet-supplied equipment, and by the 1970s was making chemical weapons. There were reports from the Middle East last week that Iraq's mustard gas had been supplied by companies in Britain or Italy, and it is true that Iraq at one time tried...
...military expert in Iraq told TIME that some of the mustard gas has been fired at enemy targets in artillery shells, although most of it is put into large drums, loaded onto wooden pallets and then dropped from helicopters and Soviet-made 11-76 transport planes. Each pallet contains six drums and weighs about five tons. The drums burst on impact, spreading the gas over a wide area. The use of gas undoubtedly contributed to Iraq's recent victories. Says Ricardo Fraile, a Paris-based consultant on chemical and biological warfare: "The chemical weapons used by the Third World...
Much of the evidence was undocumented, to be sure. Radio Tehran declared that the Iraqis had used mustard gas in last week's fighting. It said that more than 1,100 Iranian soldiers had been affected by the yellow gas but that some had been treated and sent back into battle. In Austria and Sweden, doctors who examined the Iranian victims decided that their injuries had probably been caused by mustard gas but felt that the case against Iraq was inconclusive. In Belgium, however, toxicologists who examined the blood, urine and stools of two Iranian soldiers treated in Vienna...