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Gulf War Chemical Weapons

Recently-compiled Pentagon reports indicate that chemical weapons were detected as many as seven times in the first week of the Persian Gulf War. Previously, the Defense Department had acknowledged only two credible reports that chemical weapons were detected near the deployed US troops. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

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