27th February 1997

Latest military intelligence reports describe a huge stock of high shelf life (>2 years) sarin and VX. Saddam Houssein is also suspected of having a missle capable of carrying a payload capable of delivering a lethal dose to all people within a one mile radius as far as London. The UN has also reported that its work in many Iraqi military bases has again been hampered. (IRN)

26th February 1997

Veterans of the Gulf War have accused the American and British governments of covering-up the side-effects of the preventative antidote pyridostigmine.(FT)