Iraqi chemical warfare agent found — but not in Iraq
trudogg
Democrats in Disgrace.” He added, “It’s been more than four years
since the invasion of Iraq. And countless wingers have lost their
sanity and dignity over the failed hunt from Iraqi stockpiles of
weapons of mass destruction. But vials of Iraqi WMD have now been
found … in the inspectors’ file cabinets at the UN in New York.”
One suspects this probably isn’t what conservatives had in mind.
U.N. weapons inspectors discovered a potentially hazardous
chemical warfare agent that was taken from an Iraqi chemical weapons
facility 11 years ago and mistakenly stored in their offices in the
heart of midtown Manhattan all that time, officials said Thursday.
The material, identified in inventory files as phosgene — a
chemical substance used in World War I weapons — was discovered Aug.
24. It was only identified on Wednesday because it was marked simply
with an inventory number, and officials had to check the many records
in their vast archives, said Ewen Buchanan, a spokesman for the U.N.
inspection agency.
A team of hazardous materials experts from the FBI and the New
York City police went to the office on Manhattan’s east side, about a
block north of U.N. headquarters, on Thursday with two steel
containers to remove the materials and take them to a military
facility outside New York for disposal, officials said.
While the disposal team was in UNMOVIC’s sixth-floor office, its
small staff was evacuated along with other tenants from that floor,
Buchanan said.
This seems to have largely been precautionary. CNN was running a
headline earlier that read, “Suspected poison gas found at U.N.” Given
the circumstances, that was probably a little overdramatic — this
wasn’t any kind of attack; they were misplaced vials. (ABC News has an
even more detailed report.)
Just thought I’d pass this info along in case you heard about
high-drama at the U.N. today.
Steve Benen
old777salt@yahoo
wrote:
> But vials of Iraqi WMD have now been
>found … in the inspectors’ file cabinets at the UN in New York.”
>
>One suspects this probably isn’t what conservatives had in mind.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/2se8rv
>
> U.N. weapons inspectors discovered a potentially hazardous
>chemical warfare agent that was taken from an Iraqi chemical weapons
>facility 11 years ago and mistakenly stored in their offices in the
>heart of midtown Manhattan all that time, officials said Thursday.
Hear about this on the news, just fuckening unbelievable, is
the UN years ahead of Bush in hireling incompetent.
trudogg
>> U.N. weapons inspectors discovered a potentially hazardous
>>chemical warfare agent that was taken from an Iraqi chemical weapons
>>facility 11 years ago and mistakenly stored in their offices in the
>>heart of midtown Manhattan all that time, officials said Thursday.
>
> Hear about this on the news, just fuckening unbelievable, is
>the UN years ahead of Bush in hireling incompetent.
...the UN is an example of making the best of a bad situation. It
seriously is in need of overhaul, but I don't agree with the idea of
throwing it out completely. It can be made to work...