As the U.S. and its allies weigh the possibility of military intervention in Syria over the use of chemical weapons, new reporting by Foreign Policy reveals details of how the U.S. helped Iraq launch multiple chemical weapons attacks during the Iran-Iraq war.
The magazine reports that formerly unnoticed documents in the National Archives in addition to information obtained in interviews with former intelligence officials “are tantamount to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched.”
On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry railed against chemical weapons he said were used in Syria. From his remarks:
Twenty-five years ago, however, the U.S. was not calling for “accountability for the use of chemical weapons.”
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