According to this ‘report’, all chemical weapons and precursors ‘found’ in 1996 were ‘destroyed’ at the very plant that it is now being reported that these chemicals came from:
http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/sres96-848.htm
“8. All chemical weapons destruction was carried out at the Muthanna State Establishment, Iraq’s primary chemical weapons facility, with one exception. Some munitions found at the Khamissiyah arms depot in October 1991 were judged too dangerous to move. Therefore, they were destroyed in situ during February/March 1992. The destruction of all other agent and munitions took place at Muthanna from June 1992 to May 1994. The work was carried out often in extremely harsh and dangerous physical conditions including the presence of chemical warfare agent, precursors, leaking munitions and unexploded ordnance. Appropriate standards of health and safety were maintained. During the period, the Commission supervised the destruction of over 480,000 litres of live chemical weapons agent, 28,000 chemical munitions and approximately 1.8 million litres, and over 1 million kilograms of some 45 different precursor chemicals. A variety of equipment was also rendered harmless.”
Something doesn’t quite add up here. Let me know if you find anything interesting.
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I live near Oak Ridge Tennessee, and remember, not long after the U.S. went into Iraq, local news stories about chemicals from Iraq being processed through the DOE facility here.