Suspected chemical weapons found at U.N. office

Suspected chemical weapons found at U.N. office

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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Workers found vials believed to contain the poison gas phosgene at a U.N. office building in New York, U.N. officials said Thursday.

U.N. archivists for UNMOVIC, the U.N. chemical weapons agency, unexpectedly turned up samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant in old files on Friday, U.N. officials said.

The samples were in weapons inspectors' files dating back to the 1990s, but the substance is not believed to pose any immediate danger, the officials said.

The building where the samples turned up is several blocks away from main U.N. Secretariat building along New York's East River. Tests found no toxic vapors in the offices, U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

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Wow, Scary!! What were these archivists doing storing this stuff in their office? I guess it's true, they never throw anything away!

I'm just happy it wasnt a terrorist attack!!

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[edit on 8/30/2007 by sp00n1]