U.S. military documents show that more than 600 enlisted reported they thought they'd been exposed to chemical weapons during their deployment to Iraq, as initially revealed by the New York Times.
These weapons were not part of a continuing chemical weapons programme by the regime of Saddam Hussein, rather older munitions that had been hidden by militants or the Iraqi military and discovered by the Americans.
Our Washington correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:
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