Weapons monitors inspect airfield

International weapons monitors today inspected an idle airfield north of Baghdad, apparently searching for devices that can spray deadly microbes from the air.

The current inspectors predecessors in the 1990s learned that the Iraqis successfully tested the so-called Zubaidy device, using it to disperse toxic bacteria from a helicopter, apparently from the airfield at Khan Bani Sa’ad, 20 miles north-east of Baghdad.