1. In the chemical weapons area Iraq provided, as requested, a report on its analysis of the samples from the special missile warhead fragments. 2. Other warhead fragments from the same site were stored in Iraq by the inspectors, but apparently in conditions that were less than optimal to preserve them. 3. The tests, he said, detected traces of VX and stabilizing chemicals on warhead fragments that United Nations inspectors retrieved at Nibai, Iraq, in March. 4. U.N. weapons inspectors excavated warhead fragments in March from a weapons dump at Nibai, Iraq, and shipped them to a U.S. Army laboratory at Aberdeen, Md. 5. Any attempt would have been observed by U.N. monitors in Baghdad who keep the warhead fragments under camera surveillance, he said. 6. The information was included in a confidential U.S. Army laboratory analysis of warhead fragments taken from a pit at Taji, Iraq, in March, the newspaper said. 7. The Iraqis also provided a report on their analysis of missile warhead fragments for VX nerve agent. 8. U.S., French and Swiss labs unexpectedly found the same residue of a chemical compound used in decontamination on different samples of warhead fragments. |