Vials of the deadly nerve gas phosgene have been discovered at the UN in New York. They may have been left over by UN inspectors from pre-war Iraq, reports Brian Ross for ABC:
CORRECTION: Phosgene isn't a "nerve gas," but rather a "choking agent." It was used in WWI combined with chlorine gas. I posted the article from ABC News, and apologize for the error. I'm leaving the title of the post unchanged for continuity's sake.
United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York this morning, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the White House had been notified at 10 a.m.
New York police and fire officials reported to the scene around 12:15 this afternoon.
Read the whole report at the above link. Why would they keep nerve gas in the building, no matter what purpose it may have served in inspections?
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Comments (32)
Why would they ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by rodney dill | August 30, 2007 1:09 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Because the chances of there being two separate caches of nerve gas at the UN would be astronomical.
1. Posted by rodney dill | August 30, 2007 1:09 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on August 30, 2007 13:09
2. Posted by mojo | August 30, 2007 1:11 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Because, I dunno, they're idiots?
What do I win?
2. Posted by mojo | August 30, 2007 1:11 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on August 30, 2007 13:11
3. Posted by hermie | August 30, 2007 1:17 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Wait a sec, I thought Saddam's having nerve gas was just a lie the neocons told.
3. Posted by hermie | August 30, 2007 1:17 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:17
4. Posted by mantis | August 30, 2007 1:33 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Conclusive proof of WMDs at the UN, proving our invasion was justified! Wait...
4. Posted by mantis | August 30, 2007 1:33 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:33
5. Posted by 914 | August 30, 2007 1:35 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Geez that Koffi has a lot of NERVE..
5. Posted by 914 | August 30, 2007 1:35 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:35
6. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 1:35 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Pretty sloppy work, as the UN weapons inspectors can't find phosgene in their own offices for 10 yrs.
6. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 1:35 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:35
7. Posted by 914 | August 30, 2007 1:41 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I Guess Joe Plame fibson's time would have been better spent at the UN instead of Neegaire.
7. Posted by 914 | August 30, 2007 1:41 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:41
8. Posted by Oyster | August 30, 2007 1:43 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"The items were recovered from a former Iraqi chemical weapons facility, Al Muthanna, back in 1996, but just noticed on an inventory list yesterday, according to UNMOVIC."
When was the last time these guys did an inventory?
"Former U.N. weapons inspectors told ABCNews.com that vials of phosgene had also been used by inspectors in Iraq to help calibrate air sampling instruments."
Is that where they go to calibrate their air sampling instruments? A UN building in New York?
"The chemical also has numerous commercial applications in the manufacture of plastics and pesticides."
Ah yes, dual purpose. Everything ever found in Iraq at any point was dual purpose - which of course means it was definately used for the more benign purpose.
8. Posted by Oyster | August 30, 2007 1:43 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:43
9. Posted by Kinch | August 30, 2007 1:59 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Can anyone say "regime change"?
9. Posted by Kinch | August 30, 2007 1:59 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 13:59
10. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 2:05 PM | Score: -2 (4 votes cast)
Phosgene is not a nerve gas but a choking agent:
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/phosgene/basics/facts.asp
10. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 2:05 PM |
Score: -2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on August 30, 2007 14:05
11. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 2:10 PM | Score: -8 (8 votes cast)
As Jim Reports:
"United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene,.."
From ABC:
"United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous chemical warfare agent, phosgene,.."
Anyone notice the difference?
I think Michelle Malkins should rip you a new one for distorting the facts and misleading the public like she is so famously known for.
11. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 2:10 PM |
Score: -8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on August 30, 2007 14:10
12. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 2:12 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Barney, ABC edited the story to change their original "nerve gas" to "chemical warfare agent". Its pretty obvious if you read the comments on the ABC story.
12. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 2:12 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 14:12
13. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 2:20 PM | Score: -7 (7 votes cast)
Never mind, but it was fun to read all the "Bush found the Iraqi WMD" digs in the comments section. Priceless.
13. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 2:20 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 14:20
14. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 2:23 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Never mind, Barney? You mean your little slam about Jim and Michelle Malkin "distorting" the facts should just be ignored when in fact, Jim correctly quoted the news item and you once again showed you did not know what you were talking about?
I don't think "never mind" is going to cut it, Barney.
14. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 2:23 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 14:23
15. Posted by Mikey NTH | August 30, 2007 2:31 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
How blindingly stupid do you have to be to take that to an office building as opposed to a chemical weapons depot? Apparently UN level stupid.
15. Posted by Mikey NTH | August 30, 2007 2:31 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 14:31
16. Posted by Mikey NTH | August 30, 2007 2:32 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Way to show your rear there, Barn. Classy, all the way.
16. Posted by Mikey NTH | August 30, 2007 2:32 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 14:32
17. Posted by Falze | August 30, 2007 2:37 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
you see barn, when you call someone names and it turns out you were the one that screwed up, you're supposed to apologize, at a minimum. way to act like a liberal, now you just need to blame the people you insulted to complete the cycle.
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"He said there was no evacuation of staff at U.N. headquarters and other surrounding offices." Cripes, they shut down a local school for a day because a janitor finds a broken thermometer that MAY have contained mercury (yes, that stuff the most of played with in science class) at one point in a closet that no one has opened in years. But they find phosgene at the UN and no one even bats an eye.
17. Posted by Falze | August 30, 2007 2:37 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 14:37
18. Posted by 914 | August 30, 2007 3:03 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Phosgene is not a nerve gas but a choking agent:"
You got a point there barn....Id much rather choke to death then have My nerve's shot!
18. Posted by 914 | August 30, 2007 3:03 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:03
19. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 3:20 PM | Score: -7 (7 votes cast)
"when you call someone names and it turns out you were the one that screwed up, you're supposed to apologize,.." falze
I did not call anyone any names.
Come on it was satire. Haven't any of you read J. Swift? Jim made an honest mistake by sourcing ABC News. He should have been more careful to verify the data and to immediately correct the mistake when it was know to him, but he did not so this must be a deliberate attempt on the right wring media to distort the facts.
Isn't that the kind of stuff you guys say on the right whenever an error is reported by the MSM?
That was the satire part (the Swift part as well). That said, I apologize for anyone that my comments may have offended.
19. Posted by BarneyG2000 | August 30, 2007 3:20 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:20
20. Posted by kim | August 30, 2007 3:34 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Now Barney's parodying himself; and apologizing with faint praise. Barney, try, just try to be honest. Once in your life is enough.
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20. Posted by kim | August 30, 2007 3:34 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:34
21. Posted by kim | August 30, 2007 3:36 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Truly, if you can yield a point now and then it makes your defense of other points much more credible. This is Rhetoric 101. How many times do you have to repeat the class?
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21. Posted by kim | August 30, 2007 3:36 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:36
22. Posted by marc | August 30, 2007 3:43 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Hazardous material at the U.N.?
I thought Kofi retired? Of was he just picking up his retirement check?
22. Posted by marc | August 30, 2007 3:43 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:43
23. Posted by Jim Addison | August 30, 2007 3:48 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Barney ~ I've updated, but so did ABC. That's what their original post said. At least I noted the correction - they apparently just changed it. You can see that from the quote I pasted from their article.
It is still a chemical weapon, of course, just not a "nerve agent."
Of course, I'm sure you will explain to us why it's okay to store a "choking agent" in an office building.
23. Posted by Jim Addison | August 30, 2007 3:48 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:48
24. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 3:48 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
That was pathetic Barney and confirms my opinion of your integrity.
24. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 3:48 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 15:48
25. Posted by Mitchell | August 30, 2007 4:35 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
An agency less competent than FEMA, yet much revered by the Left.
I actually have a neighbor who flies a U.N. "flag."
I guess they fancy themselves "Citizens of the World."
25. Posted by Mitchell | August 30, 2007 4:35 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 16:35
26. Posted by kim | August 30, 2007 5:09 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
It's just got to be venal, SPQR. No one suffers those blows to his intellectual integrity blithely.
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26. Posted by kim | August 30, 2007 5:09 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 17:09
27. Posted by Matt | August 30, 2007 6:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If you get a choice between Phosgene or Nerve Gas, choose Nerve Gas. It will kill you quicker.
27. Posted by Matt | August 30, 2007 6:39 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 18:39
28. Posted by marc | August 30, 2007 7:11 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
SPQR:
That was pathetic Barney
You've just been nominated for the Department of Redundancy Department.
28. Posted by marc | August 30, 2007 7:11 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 19:11
29. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 7:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I plead guilty marc.
29. Posted by SPQR | August 30, 2007 7:22 PM |
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Posted on August 30, 2007 19:22
30. Posted by spurwing plover | August 31, 2007 12:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hey look at where their hiding all that fear gas and goof gas
30. Posted by spurwing plover | August 31, 2007 12:18 AM |
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Posted on August 31, 2007 00:18
31. Posted by FreedomFries | August 31, 2007 8:53 AM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Well, at last, the Iraqi WMD's do exist. This is the ultimate proof that all the Wizwarriors have been correct all along.
31. Posted by FreedomFries | August 31, 2007 8:53 AM |
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Posted on August 31, 2007 08:53
32. Posted by spurwing plover | August 31, 2007 10:40 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
They sprayed liberals with fear gas that why their afaraid of everything and they sprayed AL GORE and GREENPEACE with goof gas that why their acting so stupid
32. Posted by spurwing plover | August 31, 2007 10:40 AM |
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Posted on August 31, 2007 10:40