2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:35:56 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Spring Valley (DC) excavation resumes
 
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Digging Resumes

Steve Vogel
Washington Post (DC)
January 24, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will resume its excavation today for 
buried chemical weapons in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest 
Washington, officials said yesterday.

The digging for the weapons, left over from World War I testing at 
American University, was halted last month after the discovery of a 75mm 
arsine shell that was suspected to have an explosive charge. The Army 
said the chances of such a shell exploding are "extremely low" because 
it lacks a fuse.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303845.html?sub=AR

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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