Speaking of Chemical Weapons... CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran -

  The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand. 

 BY SHANE HARRIS AN D MATTHEW M. AID

"It has been previously reported that the United States provided tactical intelligence to Iraq at the same time that officials suspected Hussein would use chemical weapons. But the CIA documents, which sat almost entirely unnoticed in a trove of declassified material at the National Archives in College Park, Md., combined with exclusive interviews with former intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United States' knowledge of how and when Iraq employed the deadly agents. They show that senior U.S. officials were being regularly informed about the scale of the nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched."

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