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May 2, 1986: US Ships Toxins to Iraq Ministry

1986-05-02

Two batches each of bacillus anthracis and bacterium clostridium botulinum are shipped from the US to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education. [Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 9/8/2002]