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WE FINALLY FOUND WMDS...AT THE U.N.
New York Post ^ | August 31, 2007 | TIM PERONE and BILL SANDERSON

Posted on 08/31/2007 5:01:19 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

-- Some of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction have been found in New York - in the offices of the U.N. inspectors who went to Iraq looking for them more than a decade ago.

The ensuing chemical-weapons scare yesterday emptied out the sixth floor of 866 U.N. Plaza, not far from the world body's headquarters.

But the tiny vials of potentially deadly phosgene posed no serious threat, authorities insisted.

U.N. workers archiving the files of UNMOVIC, whose inspectors searched for chemical weapons in Iraq, found the vials last Friday, authorities said. After finding the chemicals, U.N. workers sealed them in a safe, which they isolated in a secure room.

But it wasn't until Wednesday that workers found inventory records stating that one of the tiny containers held phosgene, which, in gas form, was used as a weapon in World War I and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War.

Officials declined to explain why they waited until yesterday afternoon to remove the chemicals, which apparently were mistakenly shipped to the UNMOVIC office in 1996.

The liquid chemical was in two small metal and glass containers "ranging in size from small vials to tubes the length of a pen," police said. Air testing uncovered no danger, cops said.

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"Officials declined to explain why they waited until yesterday afternoon to remove the chemicals, which apparently were mistakenly shipped to the UNMOVIC office in 1996. " New York Post

Wasn't Bill Clinton President then? That would explain alot.

1 posted on 08/31/2007 5:01:20 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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A VIAL END: Tiny vials of a potentially deadly chemical — brought back from Iraq more than a decade ago — sparked the evacuation of a U.N. office yesterday.


2 posted on 08/31/2007 5:07:43 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Getting tired of repeating this, lot’s of WMD’s have been found in Iraq.


3 posted on 08/31/2007 5:10:23 AM PDT by IrishMike (As America wins, the Democrats and their apologists lose.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
The EU and the UN also had the handy Islamic WTC-Attack calendars
which predicted the atrocity attacks in September 2001 --one year in advance
so as to warn Moslems and UN personnel to leave the area.

And HERE is the response of the MSM. [sound of crickets]

4 posted on 08/31/2007 5:10:24 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Someone better check the offices of the nuke regulators for the p’s ... plutonium and polonium, that is. U 2.


5 posted on 08/31/2007 5:11:36 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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To: AmericanMade1776

UNaccountable enemy within BUMP!


6 posted on 08/31/2007 5:12:57 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: AmericanMade1776

I bet some of those 3rd world miscreants stopped to steal everything that wasn’t nailed down in the cafeteria again before they evacuated.


7 posted on 08/31/2007 5:14:46 AM PDT by libs_kma (www.imwithfred.com)
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IrishMike wrote: Getting tired of repeating this, lot’s of WMD’s have been found in Iraq.

True, but the U.N. did not find the WMD in Iraq? They could not even find the WMD in the U.N. Building for ten years.

8 posted on 08/31/2007 5:15:47 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

The UN WMD weapons ‘inspectors’ operate like Sandy Bergers filing system.


9 posted on 08/31/2007 5:18:08 AM PDT by IrishMike (As America wins, the Democrats and their apologists lose.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

And Al Qaeda training camps. I have helped clear two of them near Tikrit in the Sunni triangle.


10 posted on 08/31/2007 5:19:20 AM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism now.)
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To: IrishMike
U.N. hq should be moved to Damascus where they can keep a close eye on Saddam’s wmd’s.
11 posted on 08/31/2007 5:21:57 AM PDT by shove_it (nonilligitimus carborundum)
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To: AmericanMade1776

This proves how far some people will go to tell a lie.


12 posted on 08/31/2007 5:28:57 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: stm

where they in vials? and how did they find them?


13 posted on 08/31/2007 5:30:04 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: Diogenesis

This is new to me. Can you expound? Links?


14 posted on 08/31/2007 5:30:18 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Diogenesis

It is new to me too, I must of missed reading about that in the mainstream media.


15 posted on 08/31/2007 5:34:06 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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We had proof 10 years ago that Saddam had WMD’s and our sitting President then ignore it?

I’m surprised we were not nuked on 9/11.

16 posted on 08/31/2007 5:34:34 AM PDT by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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So, deadly weaponized chemicals were locked away with a number of people knowing where they were. They were even documented. And they've only now been found, 11 years later. I say we need to factor this into all of those complaints that intentionally hidden WMD have not yet been found after only 4 years.
17 posted on 08/31/2007 5:35:00 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (There's more than one way to burn a book - Ray Bradbury)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"Officials declined to explain why they waited until yesterday afternoon to remove the chemicals, which apparently were mistakenly shipped to the UNMOVIC office in 1996."

The UNMOVIC didn't come into existence until December 1999 and their first inspection of Iraq wasn't until November 2002. And the UN did allow Iraq to import phosgene, along with hydrogen cyanide, and sodium cyanide. But they had to report it and it had to be in small quantities. Iraq was not allowed to manufacture any of these substances.

This story need more clarification.

18 posted on 08/31/2007 5:37:02 AM PDT by avacado
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your facts are correct, UNMOVIC (United Nations monitoring and verification commission), The Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Dr. Hans Blix of Sweden to be the Commission’s Executive Chairman. He served from 1 March 2000 to 30 June 2003.

The story might need more clarification, and it will be interesting to see how the WMD ended up in that particular office... UNMOVIC

19 posted on 08/31/2007 5:42:37 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: angcat

With the way the lies are being spread, and the chatter, one had better believe that is a strong (dirty bomb or worse) possibility. I am surprised at those of you never having heard of or having seen the calender.


20 posted on 08/31/2007 5:42:54 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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