Some experts ruled out the hidden stock of chemical weapons in Libya as it dismantled its chemical weapons program in 2003 when it joined the Chemicals Weapons Convention. The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW] has verified that two of the country’s three known chemical plants were destroyed and a third was converted by agreement into a pharmaceutical facility. But it is reported that, when unrest broke out last February, Libya was in the process of destroying stockpiles of mustard gas and other chemicals, stored in corroding drums, at a site southeast of Tripoli. Coincidentally, the equipment being used to destroy the stockpile broke down days before the fighting. Mustard gas can also cause severe blistering and death. Today, there are some 800-900 tons of war uranium yellowcake stored in drums at Libya’s lone nuclear reactor, east of Tripoli, which would require considerable refining and enrichment to be used as explosive. In this particular case, it is feared that, this stock of yellowcakes could be transported to Iran or even Pakistan, where required refining might take place thus finally shifting to the hands of Jihadist networks. [Read More]

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Source: Weekly Blitz :: Writings