http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/12/sprj.irq.war.main/index.htmlBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition weapons experts were called to an occupied air base in northern Iraq to determine whether a warhead found there was loaded with chemical weapons, military sources told CNN.
U.S. troops found the warhead, which is about as long as a baseball bat and as big around as a coffee can, during routine operations to secure the airfield in Kirkuk. It was marked with a green band which, military sources told CNN, is the universal symbol for chemical weaponry.
Two separate "improved chemical agent monitor" (ICAM) tests showed trace amounts of a nerve agent in two spots on the warhead -- at the rear and in the middle where there is a screwed-down circular area about the size of a quarter.
A former Iraqi air force colonel, claiming to be the former base commander, came to Kirkuk on Friday and told military officials he knew of 120 missiles within about an 18-mile radius of Kirkuk -- 24 of those carrying chemical munitions, according to an army intelligence posting at the airfield\'s military headquarters. (Full story)
Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi, Saddam Hussein\'s top science adviser and Iraq\'s point man for the last round of U.N. weapons inspections, surrendered to coalition troops Saturday in Baghdad, according to a senior military official at U.S. Central Command. He was No. 55 on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis.
German television network ZDF helped arrange al-Saadi\'s surrender and filmed it at the general\'s request to assure his safety.
ZDF said al-Saadi left his Baghdad home with his German-born wife Helga and surrendered to a U.S. officer, who escorted him away. Al-Saadi also granted the network an interview, and told its reporter that he had no information about other members of the dictatorial regime -- including Saddam Hussein -- and insisted, as he had during the inspections regimen, that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction.
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