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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083000978.html
Inspectors Find Decade-Old Iraqi Chemical Gas at UN Office in New York
[Washington Post] Colum Lynch - UN weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction: a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was stored in a UN shipping crate in midtown Manhattan, just a block from UN headquarters, more than 10 years ago and forgotten, UN officials announced Thursday. Experts from the UN Monitoring and Verification Commission - which is set to shut down in the coming months - found a small sample of phosgene, a choking agent. The chemical gas was recovered from Hussein's Muthanna chemical weapons facility in 1996, according to Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the UN commission. Svetlana Utkina, a Russian weapons expert who works for the commission, said that the phosgene, if exposed, could have been deadly. "Your lungs would collapse immediately if you inhale this substance," she said.