Russia, Others Worry Over Iraq Scrap Metal

[Rose Siding]

UNITED NATIONS -- Russia and many other Security Council nations expressed serious concern Wednesday that Iraq is shipping scrap metal that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction out of the country to unknown destinations.

At a closed-door council meeting, council members discussed a new report from U.N. weapons inspectors that Iraqi authorities for over a year have been shipping thousands of tons of scrap metal out of the country including at least 42 engines from banned missiles and other equipment that could be used to produce banned weapons.

"Of course we're concerned, and concerned greatly because it never happened before," said Russia's U.N. Ambassador Andrey Denisov. "We really want more to be done in order to prevent such deliveries of scrap connected to any programs of weapons of mass destruction production in Iraq. ... It's a problem."

Demetri Perricos, head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as UNMOVIC, which prepared the report, told reporters that the scrap metal problem was raised because many council members "realize the issue."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-un-iraq-weapons,0,2941540.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[jayfish]

1. How Deliciously Ironic;...

the US invades and occupies a country under the supposed pretext of stopping the proliferation of weapons and all the while we may have been facilitating that which we have destroyed our reputation to stop.

Jay

[G_j]

2. making the world a safer place

:shrug:

[daleo]

3. Scrap Metal of Mass Destruction

Will the recipients of this scrap metal be next on the invasion list?