Libya: Some Chemicals Remain Cached

6 February 2014

Libya has announced the destruction of all its chemical weapons. But the country is still sitting on hundreds of tons of chemicals that can be used to produce weapons.

What was found in the Libyan desert between 2011 and 2012 is the stuff of nightmares: 517 artillery shells, eight 250-kilogram bombs and 45 rocket launching sleeves - all rotten and loaded with dangerous sulfur mustard gas.

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