Suspected chemical weapons found in the U.N.
It looks like we found where Saddam hid those weapons of mass destruction...or do you suppose John Bolton was planning on taking out those ten stories he scoffed at?
CNN:
Workers found vials believed to contain the poison gas phosgene at a U.N. office building in New York Thursday.
U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe said U.N. chemical weapons experts quickly secured the toxic material.
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.
The samples were in weapons inspectors' files dating back to the 1990s, but the substance is not believed to pose any immediate danger, U.N. officials said Thursday.
The building where the samples turned up is several blocks away from main U.N. Secretariat building along New York's East River. Tests found no toxic vapors in the offices, U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe said. [..]
The material was taken from al-Muthanna chemical weapons plant north of Baghdad. The samples are sealed and have been there since 1996.
The samples were in containers that ranged in size "from small vials to tubes the length of a pen," Okabe said.
Ewan Buchanan, a spokesman for UNMOVIC, said the substances are in a sealed metal box and wrapped in a plastic bag, "so there is no immediate danger."
anthrax?
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Will it be blamed on the Iranian delegation? Do they expect the international community of people to react in the same cowardly fashion as our House and Senate?
Looks like another good story to distract the sheep with.
yawn.
This just makes me fearious. I'm s o o o o o afeared already.
"Duck-talk."
Thanks to my dead bastard father for alerting us on how the future would turn out.
Invade Manhattan!
We better fight the UN there so we don't have to here? Errr . . everywhere?
Damn, that Saddam was one smooth guy wasn't he? Who would have ever thought to look in the files of a UN office building for his WMD? I guess he fooled us, huh? Okay, can the troops come home now?
Wasn't it POGO who said " We Have Met The Enemy and He is Us"
Another distraction from the real news. With so much going on the GOP loves to have little diversions, like this, or the Craig deal, or some little missing blond girl to take sleepy America's mind off the Real Problem,,,,that being, the bush administration (lower case intended).
"The material was taken from al-Muthanna chemical weapons plant north of Baghdad. The samples are sealed and have been there since 1996."
Yeah, and i'll bet it said, MADE IN U.S.A.
phosgene in a file cabinet, oy.
and yes to the above, phosgene and anthrax powder are both miltary goodies.
Your post title is the same as CNN's - I actually laughed after reading the article at how misleading the headline is just to draw you in - much more responsible journalism was NPR's "U.N. Inspectors Find Chemicals During Archiving Project".
They were probably some of our sales samples that we took to Saddam when he was choosing which poisons he wanted to purchase.
I find it funny that they "quickly secured them" after they were found by workers and had been laying around all these years.
AHHHHHHHHH......MICHAEL "GUT FEELING" CHERTOFF WILL BE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT HIS SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE
Seriously, this I think is a clue as to what biological and chemical weapons are going to be used against us in the next "terrorist" attack.
Operation DOSE.
A Rovian Plant .
just like bugging you own office
A mixture of the chemicals under your sink are more of a threat then this stuff in these amounts.
Phosgene huh. Wait till they find Phosgary. They'll really shit then.
What next?, a 55 gallon drum of K-Y jelly in the Republican congressional coat room ?
subatomicdog @ 14:
You beat me to posting this comment! Totally agreed. CNN is getting as bad as the White House with their misrepresented statements. Perhaps Karl Rove has found his new calling as a mole at CNN?
The vials have been sitting there for 10+ years. Gee, I wonder if they pose an immediate threat? Ummm, prolly not.
Check the labels. See if has written on it:
"Thanks for being my good buddy, Saddam.
Ronnie."
bolton's handlers have done it, why wouldn't he? he presents with symptoms severe paranoia in every public appearance. he hates the UN, they treated him bad. he is just going postal, in a worldly way.
why is it that this should be a disrespectful comment about an american official, but is not?
The "dangers" of these "chemical weapons" can be applied to ANYTHING. They can be applied to "chemicals" you have in your shed. Don't believe all the hype.
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Check the vials for the BushCo logo.
uh..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene
"This gas gained infamy as a chemical weapon during World War I, but it is also a valuable industrial reagent and building block in organic synthesis. It is colourless, but can appear as a white or yellowish haze when released into air, due to refraction of light. In low concentrations, its odor resembles recently cut hay or green corn (maize): at higher concentrations, it may be strongly unpleasant. In addition to its industrial production, small amounts occur naturally from the breakdown of chlorinated compounds and the combustion of chlorine-containing organic compounds."
It's not exactly nerve gas.
The Administration will do ANYTHING to manufacture a threat, ANYTHING.
Honestly, there's a 95% chance that this is a non-story.
Actually, I'm now seeing reports that the vials were found Friday of last week. No evacuations occurred and there are no reports of danger. It makes me wonder why the media is reporting it so breathlessly now when it's hardly breaking news.
Since 1996? Blame Clinton! :)
In these dog days of august,
throw it out there and see what sticks.
i'm afearing.
The right wing now reveals its ultimate game plan: invade the UN, overthrow the Secretary General and make New York City look like Baghdad.
Note to UN, please keep records of chemical weapons, so folks aren't surprised when they find the ones that are misplaced.
By the way, I don't think phosgene is any more toxic than pepper spray.
Fearmongering part 32,566. It's like a broken record. Boring.
Yeah... sounds about as hazardous as hydrogen cyanide or carbon monoxide: sure, you don't want to breathe it in, but it's really impractical as a chemical weapon.
I'm sort of reminded about the "breaking news" story from one of the bedwetting blogs (such as Free Republic) which revealed that massive quantities of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) were found in Iraq, and how this was "conclusive proof" of a chemical weapons program, because it could be used to make a certain type of chemical weapon.
Of course, what they didn't mention is that NaOH is used in a lot of other things, such as oven cleaner, Drano, and preparing Luttefisk. If NaOH is "conclusive proof" of a chemical weapons program, then every household in America would be guilty of producing WMDs.
Blue Buddha @ 36:
LOL,
Drano and Easy Off Oven Cleaner are definitely potential WMDs.
For god's sake, Easy Off could remove asphalt from the roadway, and Drano could dissolve the Polar Ice Caps faster than Global Warming.
I would not be surprised if there are more of this kind of stories surfacing, all the way up until the war on Iran began.
This is Bush's PR campaign at its best. WOLF !!!!
Arroyo @ 37:
...and lutefisk is a WMD in itself. ;)
Phosgene in a chemical plant. Ohh the horror. I've worked in several chemical plants in the US (and out) and they all have some very nasty chemicals in them, yet I've never met a weapons inspector. Even the "clean" plants, like the semiconductor industry have very dangerous substances. This is just another chance for the MSM to manipulate the ignorant masses into believing whatever helps the bottom line. They'll splash this crap all over FOX news so the average idiot will think there really were WMD in Iraq. I bet if you turn over the vials they say "Made in U.S.A", complete rubbish.
Who cares???!!!
Blue Buddha @ 39:
Should we be invading Norway? Or Minnesota/Wisconsin during December for that matter? Wait--Minnesota sent a Muslim legislator to Washington! Suddenly it all becomes clear!
News also today of a biological
attacker, 'problem' in Iraq.Blue Buddha @ 39:
*Snicker*
its actually just an excuse to drink aquavit (sp), in gallons, while eating a meal.
And no, I have never eaten it, I tend not to eat food more nervous than myself, and fish in aspic is hardly a favorite.
Just bizarre!
The fingerprints of "Rovian tactics" are all over this little bit of news... There'll be more to come and most of it will just be used to ratchet up the fear...
This reminds me... I'd better clean out my fridge.... I have food that has been there too long.
It's at least 3x more deadly than this stuff. Old tuna salad == WMD.
11 years ago ..huh?.....well i guess they finally found them....11 years ago...something is missing here.....I just can't put my finger on it.
Impeach Boosh for Blowing the Job....
cubiclegrrl @ 42:
Invade Norway on the basis of lutefisk? Absolutely.
VitriolAndAngst @ 47:
... or, donate it to teenage boys in your neighborhood, they'll eat anything.
Oh Good Christ!!!!!
Does this mean the US Army is going to invade NYC?
Why is this even news?
Reading the article it sounds like the stuff was filed away rather then part of some suspicious plot.
Paranoia is going to extremes again.
OMG! What more proof do we need? Invade Iran now, while we can get bosom buddies Ahmedinejad and Bin Laden at the same time!
DO YOU WANT THE SMOKING GUN TO BE IN THE FORM OF A MUSHROOM CLOUD?
Blackwater ! Halliburton! Raytheon! There's $Billions$ to be made! Call up every able-bodied man and woman under age 60 for back-to-back tours!
And remember - don't let those dirty hippies put ANY LIMITATIONS AT ALL on the war funding. Only unpatriotic, un-Christian, lunatic fringies oppose the war, everyone knows that!
It worked so good in 2003,they're bound to fall for it again! The Dems are soooo stooopid that it works every time!
VitriolAndAngst @ 47:
As a "Foodie" I can think of far greater rotten food smells that could pose a theat. LMAO
...vials? and not those guilty-looking chemical drums? stacked on wood pallets that reach as far as the eye could see?
Can these explain some of the "unreported" weapons required by the UN the wingnuts so often wax wroth over?
Blue Buddha @ 39:
I prefer kippers with pickled onions.
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So, when are we invading the UN? And will it be lead by Bolton?
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