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Uzbekistan: Base Is Not Contaminated, U.S. Army Says Initial tests showing the presence of chemical agents at the Khanabad military base in Uzbekistan were incorrect, a U.S. Army official said yesterday (see GSN, June 18). “There is no chemical threat,” Col. Roger King said during a briefing at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The Army Biological Chemical Command has completed intensive testing at the air base near Karshi in Uzbekistan and found no trace of chemical or biological weapons, King said. The tests primarily found organic compounds, he added. Lumber used in some of the base’s facilities could have led to earlier false positive results, King said, because some compounds that are used to treat lumber are similar to those in chemical weapons. “Some of the compounds do share commonalities with some of the base compounds of chemical munitions, but again the detailed analysis shows no presence of chemical or biological munitions,” he said (Reuters/New York Times, June 23). Officials are satisfied that there is no chemical threat to U.S. soldiers stationed at the base, King said. It is still unknown whether, or when, troops will be allowed to return to the areas of the base where the traces were detected, he said (Associated Press/Yahoo.com, June 23).
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