Posted on 07/09/2014 8:53:53 PM PDT by mulder1
The Islamic State extremist group (Isis) has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility north-west of Baghdad, where 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq has said in a letter circulated at the United Nations.
The US played down the threat from the takeover, saying there were no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult to use the material for military purposes.
Iraq's UN ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, told the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on 11 June, detained guards and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.
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The US played down the threat from the takeover, saying there were no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult to use the material for military purposes.
Iraq's UN ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, told the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on 11 June, detained guards and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.
well since there’s no WMDs in Iraq what’s to worry about?
Is this the left-wing Guardian acknowledging that there were chemical weapons plant in Iraq?
It's called "Fundamental Transformation."
All I can say is that I am very glad that I don’t live in a big city in the US.
” difficult to use the material for military purposes.”
Conventional military use of WMD considers the safety to the deploying forces and civilians. The Amish don’t care about either.
They will send in infected people across the border as vectors or mix this stuff up in a blender and spray it out the window.
but ... but ... but ...
Saddam had a “vast chemical weapons facility” ? Hmm.
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