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AUSTRALIA: Navy Uncovers Chemical Plot

Friday, April 4, 2003
The Daily Telegraph

The Khawar Abd'Allah waterway is littered with wrecks - many dating back to the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and 1991 Gulf War. Dotted in among the wrecks are unexploded mines as well as the possibility of Iraqi booby traps.

Australian navy boarding teams have uncovered chilling evidence suggesting Iraqi soldiers may be plotting chemical attacks on shipping around Iraq's key port of Umm Qasr.

And it comes as coalition naval forces found what appeared to be an abandoned suicide boat packed with explosives and weapons on the banks of a key waterway near the port on Wednesday.

The highly-trained teams have found gas masks and diagrams detailing how to launch an attack from a small ship against a larger vessel.

The sketches, gas masks, several army uniforms and a machine gun were found in a secret observation post on an old wreck that suspected Iraqi soldiers had been using.
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