UN Weapons Inspectors Finally Find Those WMD’s

Turns out they were hidden in their office all along.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations officials found vials of dangerous chemicals, which had been removed from Iraq a decade ago, in a U.N. building in New York, but U.N. officials said on Thursday there was no danger.
The FBI was called in to help remove the substances.
The material was phosgene, a chemical warfare agent, U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe told a news conference.
The inspections unit said in a statement that the chemicals had been found last Friday.
The Iraqi weapons inspectors came across the material as they were closing their offices, which are housed in a building near the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, said Ewen Buchanan, a spokesman for the inspectors.

There’s a joke in there about UN weapons inspectors and not being able to find their own feet with two hands and a flashlight, but I’m not sure reality needs any embellishment.

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  • http://Array Kiddo

    Okay, so what are the implications of this story? Are they going to say these were the WMDs they were looking for? Phosgene was a choking agent used in WWI, for Pete’s sake. Could these just be remnants of weapons we sold to Iraq in the 80s? It will be interesting to watch the how the spin machines on both sides of the aisle handle this story.

  • Robin Crenshaw

    Shouldn’t it be a crime to bring it into the US?

    Bring what, evidence against Saddam’s regime?

  • Mickey

    kiddo

    Actually the U.S. was a small supplier to Iraq in the 80s.
    Russia and France were the big players in the sale of weapons.

    The point of this discovery is the feckless performance of the UN inspectors which should not come as any surprise.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Shouldn’t it be a crime to bring it into the US?

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