] U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around ] 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical ] weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio ] reported on Monday. ] ] NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with ] the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 ] missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and ] were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new ] U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not ] just trace elements." The 4-minute NPR audio from today's "Morning Edition" can be listened to here: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1223246 Note: This is not an eyewitness report. It's an interview with an NPR reporter who was told by an official from the Marines who said he'd heard it from the intelligence network. Enough degrees of separation to treat the report with skepticism, but enough detail to definitely be of interest! U.S. Finds Missiles with Chemical Weapons |