Lawsuit: Firms sold poison gas ingredients to Iraq

Saturday, April 11, 2009

By DAVID DISHNEAU,Associated Press Writer AP - Friday, April 10HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Three companies illegally sold materials to Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s for making chemical weapons that were used to carry out attacks against thousands of Iraqi Kurds and ultimately caused scores of chronic ailments, according to a federal lawsuit.
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