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' —I" VI iipiooniwr - " T ML aSSs wwMiMHvMdsnihi ifjMpipi - 'iTVBL- Hqsv Vags-La- - -- aafc gfe m- Tjcr jttv 3Bfe- - jmp v- - afr' Sp: Sr Pago 6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday October 3 1996 mmHMonwm White House orders review of Gulf gas WASHINGTON AP) — The Pentagon wcMiik r why no soldier died from sarin ga puioning at the end of the Persian Gulf War if thousand were exposed ’’The primary known symptom At the center of the nerve gas controversy is the March 1991 demolition by US Army troops of Iraqi rocket shell the military now kniws contained sarin nerve gas A much as two Ions of sarin may i death” an official told reporter Wednesday speaking on condition he not lie named "This t really lethal stuff (but) we don’t have any example at this lime of anybody dying from exposure” have gone up in the demolition of weapons in an open pit and a bunker called Khamiseyah “Khamicyah in our judgement is a watershed in (hi search for an understanding of Persian Gulf veterans’ il- The Clinton administration ha ordered the Pentagon to possible exposure to chemical weapons even a the CIA completes work on a detailed wind current study that may shiw how many troops may nave been expired 1 J lnesses” said the senior official “Khamiseyah is the first event where we now can place American troop in the known presence of chemical agents” In addition to the March demolition Khamiseyah alvr was the target of extensive air strikes a month earlier according to intelligence documents made public last year on the Internet but withdrawn last February because the CIA thought they disclosed too much about intelligencemethods -gathering In today’s edition The New York lime quote an intelligence report dated Feb 3 1991 the 18th day of the air war against Iraq as saying 37 storage building and about 101X10 tons of ammunition were destroyed at Khamiseyah But the Time quoted Pentagon officials as saying the intelligence report vastly overestimated the damage and that the single bunker and a dirt pit where nerve ga was stored at Khamiseyah were not hit in the air strikes “We do not believe that any troops were exposed to chemical agents as a result of the bombing” the Pentagon said in a statement The Birmingham News meanwhile reports in today’s editions that military officials are unable to locate pages of a ! Eglin Air Force Base Fla The chemical warfare log was kept at4 Gen Norman Schwarzkopf's Central 1 Command headquarters in Riyadh Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War Thirty-si- x pages of the log were released last year under the Freedom of Informa- lion Act but the log was riddled with gaps the paper reported Fabiano told the paper all log pages in possession of Central Command have chemical warfare log that could shed been declassified and released and that the missing information is a mystery light on possible nerve gas exposure “We don’t know why they're missing" the Alabama paper quoted Li Col Nino Fabiano as saying He is a One large gap covers eight days in March 1991 when Army engineers destroyed the Khamisiyah ammunition'' spokesman for Central Command at depot Crime ring accused can discern Experts: Bombing jurors of stealing millions in military equipment you’ve stirred them together with a wisk it’s very difficult to separate the yolk from the white “Human emotions usually Uke over in the jury room” the former judge said By The Daity Oklahoman DENVER — Former Oklahoma County District Attor- Wis (A V) — The Col Harold K Miller Jr base commander was not available for base was masterminded by a military surplus dealer who wanted to fuel a lucrative collector' market federal official say The dealer I accused of brib- conference was scheduled at the base today In addition to the combat vehicles the stolen merchandise included a crane an airport runway snowblower Jeeps and other heavy equipment and truck No missile or other weapons were stolen Most of the equipment ha been returned to f ort McCoy The suspects including the two base employees two military surplus dealers and a mib ry muse- MADISON largest known theft of combat equipment from a US military ing two civilian workers with $38XX) a snowblower-equippe- d truck and a crane in exchange for their help moving SI 3 million worth of combat vehicles and equipment off the Fort McCoy base The more than 100 vehicle included a Vietnam War-er- a Sheridan lank and 17 armored with anti-tan- k missile launchers the officials said personnel carrier Mil agents secretly photographed some equipment being hauled off one photo clearly shows the Sheridan lank being carted away on a flatbed truck “This was a very sophisticated scheme to remove properly to manipulate the system and corrupt individuals’ said Michael J Sanlimauro special agent in cliaige of the MU’ Milwaukee office Prosecutor on Wednesday announced thw Indict menu of seven Mvilians in the theft at Fort McCoy a training base with 2300 civilian employees and about 2XI military personnel ney Andy Coals testified Wednesday as s government witness in the bombing esse and told the judge that jurors “truly agonize” over their decision in a death penally comment Wednesday A news AP photo Special prosecutors Joseph Hartzler left and Sean Connelly leave the Federal Courthouse in Denver on Wednesday after a day of hearings for separata trials for Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh and Teny Nichols cr said The officers also requisitioned a number of vehicles from other Army bases including Deven in Ayer Mas "heightened in death penalty considerations” when defendants are tried at the same lime said Coats now dean of cases” the law school at the University of Oklahoma US District Judge Richard impressed with the intensity with which the jurors concentrated” on their tasks said Matsch is being asked to decide whether defendants document that allowed the equipment to be trucked off the liiulcn-schlag- Coats told the judge that “I think jurors can make jurors in all cases try “to do individual distinctions and the right thing” but that is few week Donald Crandall 38 the base' range safely officer and Dennis Lambert 52 the base's range maintenance supervisor falsified US Attorney Peg agreed case um president face theft conspiracy and bribery charges None were in custody but all face court hearing in the next base But Coats and two other government witnesses dis- Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols deserve separate trials — particularly since the death penalty is being sought Four defense experts testified that it is more difficult for jurors to focus on each defendant’s “life story” in deciding punishments at a joint trial “It’s like breaking egg up for an omelet” testified Charles Campbell a former judge on the Texas Court of “Once Criminal Appeals “I was always very Coats who was the district attorney in Oklahoma County from 1976 to 1980 In preparation for his testimony Coats studied the verdicts of death penalty cases in Oklahoma and on the federal level where defendants were tried at the same time “I could not discern any pattern” he said He testified he found cases where both defendants got the death penalty cases where both got life sentences and cases where one got the death penalty and the other got life and Fort Stewart in llinesville Ga authorities said In October 1994 the officers 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