30 Aug Iraqi Chemical Weapons Found… at the UN?
Well, sort of. Here’s a snippet from ABC News:
United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous chemical warfare agent, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the White House had been notified at 10 a.m.
The vials were discovered at the headquarters of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which led the inspections of possible chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. The items were recovered from a former Iraqi chemical weapons facility, Al Muthanna, back in 1996, but just noticed on an inventory list yesterday, according to UNMOVIC.
So they are old chem warfare agents from 1996. That were just sitting there in a file. At the UN. In NYC.
Memo to UN: work on your inventory control.
Thanks.
U.N. archivists for UNMOVIC, the U.N. chemical weapons agency, unexpectedly turned up samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant in old files on Friday, U.N. officials said.
Trouboling is that the discovery was made on Friday, and the evacuation was done 5 days later.
“Trouboling” Hummmm… that should have been troubeling.
Rather: troubling 😉
Thanks Patrick!!! Once I wrote “Empeach” in a blog. They had a feast with me :o)
I like “empeach,” meaning: to remove an emperor!