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pur1.32754079182451	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.	Chemical weapons use in Kurdistan : Iraq's final offensive : a staff report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate 	1988		.txt	text/plain	711	42	61	accounts of Kurdish refugees who fled from Iraq to Turkey. on August 25 launched chemical attacks against scores of Kurdish During the early morning hours of August 25, 1988 Iraqi warplanes and helicopters dropped chemical weapons on a series of villages in regions of Iraqi Kurdistan. 1925 the use of chemical weapons has been infrequent and usually Iraq has now broken the 70-year hiatus on chemical weapons use In its struggle with Iran, Iraq used poison gas extensively and effectively. Unlike nuclear warheads, chemical weapons are easy and relatively cheap to manufacture. to buy a nuclear bomb or to obtain mastery over nuclear technology, is now turning its efforts more successfully to chemical weapons manufacture. Iran has already developed some chemical weapons capability and is certain to want to try to match Iraq's capabilities. Iraq's mastery of chemical weapon warfare has ominous implications for the Middle East.	./cache/pur1.32754079182451.pdf	./txt/pur1.32754079182451.txt