Pentagon downplays accounts of Iraqi chemical weapons factory discovery
WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 24, 2003
The Pentagon said late Sunday that reports of allied forces having discovered a "huge" chemical weapons factory in central Iraq were "premature.""Media reports are premature," the US Central Command said, in a brief statement read by Pentagon spokesman Major James Cassella. But he added: "We are looking into sites of interest."
Earlier, citing a senior defense official, media reported the discovery by US forces of the factory at An Najaf, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad.
Fox News said coalition troops were holding the general in charge of the facility.
And, according to ABC News, one official said the general could be "a potential gold mine" of information about the production and location of weapons of mass destruction the United States has accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of hiding.
Since the US-led war was launched on Baghdad early Thursday, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, Pentagon officials have so far said.
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