Iraq shells did not contain poison gas

United States experts have determined that a substance leaking from three dozen mortar shells discovered in Iraq last weekend was not a poison gas, the Danish military said.

But the general staff did not rule out that the liquid could be a chemical agent used in combat.

Danish troops serving in the stabilisation force near Basra found 36 rusty and leaking mortar shells likely to date back to the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War.

Herald Feature: Iraq