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Workers scouring the site of a World War II chemical weapons training camp in northeast Alabama have found 13 mortars filled with liquid, but they have yet to determine if any of them contained hazardous agents, the military said Wednesday.

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March 28, 2007, 10:46 p.m.
A similar mortar found in 2001 contained phosgene, a choking agent that can kill if inhaled.
Testing to determine what is inside the most recently recovered shells will happen within a few weeks, said Pat Robbins, a spokesman with the Army Corps of Engineers.
"It could be water, it could be chemicals. We just don't know," he said.
"They're in a safe facility on site. They're no danger to anyone,"

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