Sat Mar 6, 3:05 PM ET
CRAWFORD, Texas - A cargo ship left Libya on Saturday carrying the last of the equipment that Moammar Gadhafi's government had used for its nuclear weapons program, a White House spokesman said.
The ship steamed for the United States laden with 500 tons of material containing "all known remaining equipment" associated with Libya's nuclear program, which it agreed last year to abandon.
The equipment included "all centrifuge parts and all equipment from its former uranium conversion facility," spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters covering President Bush's long weekend at his Texas ranch.
The shipment also contained all of Libya's longer-range missiles, including five Scud-Cs, McCormack said.
In addition, "All Libya's known chemical munitions have been destroyed," he said, and stocks of mustard gas were removed from vulnerable warehouses and stored in a single, secure facility.
Last week, Libya made the first concrete move to eliminate its stockpiles when it destroyed 3,300 bombs specifically intended to carry chemical payloads.
U.S. experts plan to open discussions with Libyan weapons scientists beginning Sunday about retraining them for peaceful projects, McCormack said.
In December, Libya agreed to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction programs.
The country is trying to end its international isolation and restore relations with the United States.