My question--is this lab recently set up, or is it left over from the Saddam regime? We know he liked to hide these kinds of things in places like backyards and gardens.
A lieutenant of Iraq’s most feared terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured in Mosul, Dawoud said
He named him as Abu Saeed, but he gave no further details.
Al-Zarqawi, whose al-Qaida-linked group has been responsible for numerous car bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages, including three Americans and Briton Ken Bigley, was believed to have been based in Fallujah. But the Jordanian-born extremist managed to escape the siege.
The United States has offered a €18.5m reward for al-Zarqawi’s capture - the same amount being offered for Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=8169094&p=8y69y4x&n=8169182
The primitive lab for weapon-related activities would not be located in a city neighborhood (unless the neighborhood is suicidal - think spills and fume hood emissions). Alternatively, the lab would have to be equipped with exhaust fume hoods and glove boxes - both equipped with scrubbers.
This kind of equipment, necessary to protect those working in the lab and their immediate neighbors, would be much more in the nature of evidence as to the lab activities than a photo of shelf full of chemicals with illegible labels.