Isis seizes former chemical weapons plant in Iraq
(Not to worry, OCU, These really are old and decrepit
and degraded probably unusable weapons . . .)
(But, if you had half a brain you'd recognize the significance. Zim.)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/isis-seizes-chemical-weapons-plant-muthanna-iraq
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.
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Alhakim singled out the capture of bunkers 13 and 41 in the sprawling complex 35 miles (56 km) north-west of Baghdad in the notorious "Sunni Triangle". The last major report by UN inspectors on the status of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme was released about a year after the experts left in March 2003. It states that bunker 13 contained 2,500 sarin-filled 122mm chemical rockets produced and filled before 1991, and about 180 tonnes of sodium cyanide, a very toxic chemical and a precursor for the warfare agent tabun.
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According to the report, bunker 41 contained 2,000 empty 155mm artillery shells contaminated with the chemical warfare agent mustard, 605 one-tonne mustard containers with residues, and heavily contaminated construction material. It said the shells could contain mustard residues that cannot be used for chemical warfare but remain highly toxic.
A US state department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, expressed concern on 20 June about Isis seizing the complex, but played down the importance of the two bunkers with "degraded chemical remnants", saying the material dates back to the 1980s and was stored after being dismantled by UN inspectors in the 1990s.
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Take note : The site contained over 4,000 'Empty'
chemical munitions.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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