Aerial view of the Al Muthanna Chemical Weapons Complex after Operation Desert Storm, from a 2004 CIA report, with R&D and laboratory facilities marked out and labelled (stock image) [Picture: CIA]
Iraq Tells U.N. ‘Terrorists’ Seized Former Chemical Arms Depot -- Daily Star/Agencies
UNITED NATIONS / BAGHDAD: Iraq’s government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to “armed terrorist groups” and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country’s U.N. envoy informed the United Nations.
The announcement came as Iraq’s parliament moved up to early next week its next session devoted to forming a new government as embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seeks a new term in the face of strong opposition from across the political spectrum.
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, made public on Tuesday, Ambassador Mohammad Ali Alhakim said the Muthanna facility north of Baghdad was seized on June 11. He said remnants of a former chemical weapons program are kept in two bunkers there.
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My Comment: I reported on this story last month .... ISIS Militants May Now Have Weapons Of Mass Destruction After Storming And Seizing A Saddam-Era Chemical Weapons Complex In Iraq. Some are saying that we should not be worried .... others are saying that we should. What's my take .... when it comes to WMDs, I think it is prudent to always assume the worse.