Libyan Army official tells Arab paper that militias captured chemical weapons

Jerusalem Post ^ | 2-22-2015 | Ariel Ben Solomon

[sheikdetailfeather]

Militias in Libya have captured chemical weapons from storage areas in southern and central parts of the country, the Arab media reported on Saturday.

“Unfortunately [chemical weapons] exist in locations known to the militias, who have seized large amounts of them to use in their war against the [Libyan] army,” a Libyan military official told the London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat.

The former regime of Muammar Gaddafi had held the chemical weapons and the official warned that Islamic State could obtain the chemicals, which include mustard gas and the nerve agent Sarin.

“Before his death, Gaddafi left approximately one thousand cubic tons worth of material used for manufacturing chemical weapons and about 20,000 cubic tons of mustard gas,” added the military official.

[butterdezillion]

This nation is in a fight-or-die period of time. Either we fight back and stop this stuff before it reaches our shores, aided and abetted by the foreign enemy combatant illegally placed into the White House, or we will face civil war against an enemy fully armed with weapons that guns cannot neutralize.

[sgtyork]

They must have meant metric ton.

A metric ton is a unit of measurement based on the metric system, rather than the standard, or imperial, system more commonly used in the United States. It is known as a tonne in most other countries, and is equivalent to 1,000 kilograms. Strictly speaking, it is a megagram, being one million grams.

[sheikdetailfeather]

http://allenwestrepublic.com/2015/02/22/isis-targeted-in-us-led-joint-task-force-ahead-of-mosul-offensive/

http://allenwestrepublic.com/2015/02/22/iraq-security-forces-break-isis-seige-of-civilian-compound-in-al-baghdadi/

[sheikdetailfeather]

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Analysis-Egypt-left-to-fight-alone-against-Islamist-terrorism-391865

[Forward the Light Brigade]

wait til ISIS releases this in Rome Or Naples or the Vatican???? What will NATO do then? Maybe we could loan a few old nukes to Italy? A few Hieroshima sized ones.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Good thing Bush told us about the WMD in libya.

[scooby321]

Hillary Great move to remove Kaddhfi who fought terrorist

[xone]

with weapons that guns cannot neutralize.

All weapons can be neutralized by direct fire. Either on the weapon itself or the operator.