The file photo shows the victims of Iraq's gas attack on
Iran’s city of Sardasht in 1987 during Saddam’s imposed war on the Islamic
Republic.
A retired US military officer says Washington provided chemical and biological weapons to executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the eight-year war against Iran.
In an interview with Voice of Russia published on Thursday,
Karen Kwiantowski elaborated on America’s use of chemical weapons, saying that
Washington gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to to be used against Iran
during the eight-year Iraqi imposed war on the Islamic Republic of Iran in the
1980s.
“So, yeah, we've done it. It's old news how we took sides in
the Iraq-Iran war ...we did provide chemical weapons and biological weapons to
Saddam Hussein as he was fighting in that long war with Iran. And we did this,
it's been well publicized,” she said.
According to a recent report published by the Foreign Policy
magazine in late August, the Iraqi military attacked Iran several times during
the eight-year war using mustard gas and lethal nerve agent of sarin, with the
help of satellite imagery, maps and other intelligence provided by the US
government.
The report also revealed that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) agents conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully
aware that Saddam’s military would attack with chemical arms.
According to reports, the use of chemical weapons by Iraq
has incurred over 100,000 casualties on the Iranian side, with many others
dying as a result of the chemicals on a daily basis. Around 20,000 soldiers
were killed instantly by nerve gas.
Kwiatkowski went on to say that the US will not renounce the
use of cluster bombs, which could disperse chemical weapons, despite their
known dangerous impacts on civilians.
“We will not swear off cluster bombs, we use cluster bombs,
and, of course, they have terrible impact on non-combatants, they are dangerous
for many, many years even after we've launched them,” she said.
AR/NN/HMV
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