"WITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE, south of Baghdad A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons program for more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began, members of the team said.
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They said the scientist led Americans to a supply of material that proved to be the building blocks of illegal weapons, which he said had been buried as evidence of Iraq's illicit weapons programs.
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He also told U.S. weapons experts that Iraq had secretly sent unconventional weapons and technology to Syria, starting in the mid-1990s, and that more recently Iraq was cooperating with Al Qaeda, the military officials said.
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