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<text id=89TT0305>
<title>
Jan. 30, 1989: World Notes:Iraq
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 30, 1989 The Bush Era Begins
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
IRAQ
The Poison This Time
</hdr><body>
<p> Iraq came under widespread criticism last year after it
killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kurdish villagers with a
chemical-weapons attack in the gulf war. Now U.S. officials
confirm that Baghdad has been developing yet another form of
warfare expressly banned by international law: biological
weapons.
</p>
<p> While chemical substances cause fatal gas burns in the
lungs, germ warfare is designed to spawn epidemics of deadly
diseases such as typhoid, cholera and anthrax. So far, there
appears to be no evidence that Iraq has deployed germ warfare,
despite allegations last September by Kurdish rebels that an
outbreak of typhoid was caused by an Iraqi attack. But a
purported document captured by Kurdish guerrillas a year ago
refers to an inventory of "chemical and biological" materials in
the hands of the Iraqi army. Dated Aug. 3, 1986, the document
was released by London-based officials of the Kurdish
Democratic Party.
</p>
<p> According to Pentagon sources, Iraq is among at least nine
nations developing biological weapons. The others: the Soviet
Union, China, North Korea, Taiwan, Egypt, Israel, Iran and
Syria.
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</body></article>
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