CNN The Situation Room August 26, 2013 22:50:00
Saddam's forces fired shells containing nerve agents on iranian troops in a key series of battles in southern iraq in 1988. retired air force 1988. retired air force colonel, a u.s. military liaison to iraq at the time says the foreign policy article got it wrong quoting him saying that u.s. officials new in advance that saddam was going to do that. >> we did not know that the i a iraqis were going to use in advance. >> reporter: he said he didn't know until he found the invectors he said the this iranians used. he said he confronted his iraq counter parts. >> what was their response? >> their...
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