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Chemical Weapons Experts Examine Vials in Hawaii
A total of 130 glass vials filled with an unidentified liquid have been found underneath a house and at a boating maintenance company in Hawaii, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Oct. 8, 2002). A Honolulu woman found the first 100 vials underneath a home that once belonged to a chemical engineer who had served in the U.S. Army’s 29th Chemical Decontamination Company and the Chemical Warfare Section of the 35th Infantry Division, AP reported. The resident, Kelly McArthur, brought one of the vials to the Hawaii Health Department on Tuesday. Officials subsequently evacuated her house and the homes of two neighbors, AP reported. Other nearby residents were either evacuated or ordered to stay inside yesterday as WMD experts removed the vials from the house. Containers found at the boat maintenance firm appear to be identical to the vials at McArthur’s home. Chemical Weapons experts from the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland were sent to Hawaii to identify the liquid in the vials, according to AP. The contents might be a liquid used to prepare troops in World War II for a possible gas attack, Hawaii Adjutant General Robert Lee said. McArthur, who cared for the engineer and his wife before their deaths, said she was exposed to the liquid but has not become ill. “I wouldn’t think he would have anything dangerous under his house,” she said (Associated Press, March 18).
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