1.   After entering Kuwait, he said, the equipment detected lethal concentrations of mustard agent.

2.   Fishermen in the Baltic Sea, particularly off Denmark, and those who work the waters off Japan routinely pull up in their nets shells containing viscous mustard agent.

3.   Hundreds of men jumped or were thrown into the water, which was heavily contaminated with mustard agent and oil.

4.   Neither the Pentagon nor the Czech government has been able to explain publicly how the mustard agent got there.

5.   With the skin-blistering mustard agent, for example, the liquid is diluted with water, and decomposing microbes are mixed in.

6.   Among Iraqi munitions in the depot were bombs filled with mustard agents and the nerve agents sarin and cyclosarin.

7.   Mustard agent dripped down his rubber suit and through two unlaced eyelets on his boot, giving the man two coin-size burns on his calf.

8.   Thiodiglycol, commonly used in making dyes and inks, is the major ingredient in mustard agent.