Global Security Newswire

A team of experts from the Iraq Survey Group has begun tests on a recovered cache of 36 Iraqi mortar shells suspected of containing blister agent, Danish army officials said today (see GSN, Jan. 12).

“They have started working and we don’t know yet know when the final results will be ready,” said Maj. Kim Gruenberger of the Danish Army Operational Command. “I hope that we’ll find out that they don’t contain anything so we can get back to our normal duties,” Gruenberger said (Jan Olsen, Associated Press/Miami Herald, Jan. 13).