An Iraqi man has been detained after 10 letters containing dangerous chemicals were sent to a number of targets in Belgium, Belgian police said yesterday (see GSN, June 5).

The 45-year-old man was detained Wednesday in the western town of Deinze, said Glenn Audenaert, head of the investigation.  The letters were sent to the Belgian prime minister’s office, the U.S. and British embassies and a court trying al-Qaeda suspects.  Twenty people were treated at area hospitals after being exposed to the phenarsazine chloride, an arsenic derivative used in nerve gas (Reuters/Washington Post, June 6).

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