UN Stored Iraq Chemical Weapons in Midtown

[Matt Molnar]

Geniuses over there. :roll:

Dangerous Iraq chemicals found stored at U.N. in NY

Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:06pm

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.

Phosgene was used extensively during World War I as a choking agent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

[PhilDernerJr]

****, we should have invaded Manhattan instead of Iraq. haha

[lijk604]

News Flash: Bush declares Iraqi WMD's found! Throw's an "I told you so" party at the White House.

[T-Bird76]

Based on most of the actions of the U.N I bet some of that stuff leaked.

[cancidas]

heard about this earlier today. not removing the ADF was a good idea...

[emshighway]

Boy, I hate to think what I'll find when I clean up my desk :oops:

[Mateo]

So, in the end, there were more WMDs on the East Side then in the Middle East...