UN Office Evacuated After Workers Find Vias That May Contain Nerve Gas

[kpete]

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- A U.N. office was evacuated after workers found vials that may have contained the poison gas phosgene Thursday.

U.N. archivists unexpectedly turned up samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant 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 material was taken from al-Muthanna chemical weapons plant north of Baghdad. The samples are sealed and have been there since 1996, U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/un.gas/index.html

[ret5hd]

1. That Saddam guy was a true GENIUS!!!

Hide your WMD's at the U.N.!!!

Whoda thunkit!