Global Security Newswire

Cleanup of the chemical weapon stockpile at the Aberdeen Proving Ground could be extended beyond a December deadline because of lingering mustard agent residue, the U.S. General Accounting Office said, according to the Daily Record of Baltimore (see GSN, Nov. 26, 2003).

Removal of the residue is necessary for the cleanup to be considered complete, a GAO official told the House Armed Services Committee Thursday (Daily Record, April 5).