51.   A tiny speck of liquid sarin, a nerve agent developed after World War I by the Nazis, can kill in seconds if it touches the skin.

52.   A U.N. team of independent experts left Baghdad on Wednesday, ending a controversial mission that involved the destruction of the deadly VX nerve agent, U.N. sources said.

53.   Accompanied by a phalanx of Cabinet members, Bush toured a display of hazardous materials teams, examining one device that detects nerve agents such as mustard gas.

54.   A U.N. team of independent experts left Baghdad Wednesday, ending a controversial mission that involved the destruction of the deadly VX nerve agent, U.N. sources said.

55.   But Iraq has maintained it never produced VX warheads or figured out how to store the deadly nerve agent in bulk.

56.   But earlier, a U.S. army lab found that missile fragments had traces of the deadly nerve agent.

57.   But the inspectors have consistently accused Iraq of trying to hide banned weapons, including chemical weapons and nerve agents capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people.

58.   But Iraq has repeatedly maintained it never produced VX warheads nor figured out how to store the deadly nerve agents in bulk.

59.   Butler said Friday that if Iraq had handed over only one document on its production of deadly VX nerve agent, it would have made a big difference.

60.   Chemical weapons experts from seven countries will assess results from U.S. and French laboratories on whether Iraq was able to load the deadly nerve agent VX into missile warheads.