cross-posted at skippy and a veritable cornucopia of other community blogs.
remember that huge scandal when chemical weapons from iraq were found in a united nations office? well, it turns out that the culprit was less saddam hussein and more scrubbing bubbles. asspress:
a substance found at a un weapons inspectors’ office last month and suspected of being a chemical warfare agent appears to be a non-toxic solvent, a un official said thursday.
the material was found aug. 24 at a un office in midtown manhattan. the material, from a bombed-out iraqi research facility, was in inventory files with a label that indicated it could be phosgene, a chemical substance used in the first world war.
it had been in the files for 11 years and was only identified when officials checked the inventory number against the many records in the vast archives.
un and u.s. officials said after the discovery that the material posed no threat to anyone’s health or safety. however, it was removed by a team of hazardous materials experts from the fbi and new york city police and taken to a laboratory for testing.
preliminary results indicate the substance was a non-toxic solvent, not the chemical agent phosgene, the un official said.
who knew mr. clean was a terrorist?