And why were weapons inspectors cleaning out offices?
From the CNN article:
“Inspectors from UNMOVIC and its predecessor agency UNSCOM were responsible for verifying Iraq’s compliance with U.N. resolutions requiring it to abandon its pursuit of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The material collected normally would have been destroyed after analysis, UNMOVIC said.
UNMOVIC’s mandate ended this year, and its offices are being packed up and moved out, State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey said.”
In other words, someone didn’t destroy the samples like they were supposed to, and we’re just finding out about it now that UNMOVIC is packing up. Could this be less of a story?
And why would Iraq place nerve gas in the UN in the first place? I’m not a professional reporter or journalist, but this is a question I might ask...