Six people died when an American-held ammunition dump near Baghdad which held 80 Iraqi missiles exploded today, showering nearby homes with warheads, rockets and mortars.

US troops found thousands of boxes of suspicious white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare south of Baghdad.

American troops today found thousands of boxes of white powder at an industrial site south of Baghdad, but initial tests showed it was probably just explosives.

US troops today claimed to have found thousands of boxes of white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to wage chemical warfare at an industrial site south of Baghdad.