02.06 Workshops to Produce Chemical Weapons Uncovered in Iraq

MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti) - Iraqi authorities have uncovered two workshops producing chemical agents, such as sarin and mustard gas, BBC reported on Saturday.

Defense ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the workshops, one in Baghdad and the other in an unnamed province, were ran by five suspected members of an Al-Qaeda terror cell. All of them were detained.

Remote-controlled toy planes were also seized at the workshops. According to al-Askari, they were intended to release the chemical agents from a safe distance.

One of the five detainees made a confession stating the group planned to use the chemicals agents in Iraq and other countries, and said the group acted on an �instruction from another al-Qaeda offshoot.�

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