Gotta give credit where credit due. They wouldn't have done this if we didn't invade Iraq.
Libya has declared a 20-ton stockpile of deadly mustard gas in a full report on its chemical weapons programmes submitted to the UN on Friday.
The Libyans also detailed large amounts of chemicals used to make nerve gas.
The UN says the declaration is a major step towards eliminating Libya's weapons of mass destruction.
It follows Libya's surprise announcement in December that it was scrapping its weapons programmes, in a bid to end its international isolation.
"It's a great day," said Rogelio Pfirter, director-general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), after receiving Libya's documents at the OPCW's headquarters in The Hague.
"This is good for Libya, the region and the international community since it strengthens this multilateral disarmament regime and represents a tangible step towards the ultimate elimination of these weapons of mass destruction," Mr Pfirter said.
As well as mustard gas, the report discloses that Libya possessed large amounts of chemical agents used in the manufacture of sarin and other toxins.
These stocks will all have to be destroyed under the watchful eye of inspectors.
'Unusual example'
The UN has already praised Libya after it supervised the destruction this week of more than 3,000 empty chemical bombs.
The BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says it was a decidedly low-tech affair - bulldozers were used to crush the casings of the unfilled chemical bombs.
The Libyan example is an unusual one in the world of arms control, our correspondent says.
Last December, the Libyans revealed their intention to give up all weapons of mass destruction, following months of secret talks with British and US officials.
In response, Washington last month lifted a ban on its citizens travelling to Libya after 23 years of wide-ranging sanctions.
Most trade restrictions still remain but US companies are now allowed to prepare for a return to Libya.
The US decision also followed Tripoli's clarification that it accepts responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, over-riding comments by the prime minister who denied Libya had any part in the attack.
Nuclear inspectors from the OPCW's sister organisation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have already been at work assessing Libya's nuclear weapons programme, although this was less advanced than the country's chemical weapons activities.
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Accept that and that you were lied to and lets move on
Yeah you guys whats wrong with you?
Bill Clinton lied
Madeline Albright lied
Great Britain lied
George Bush lied
Collin Powell lied
Conaliza Rice lied
John Kerry lied
John Edwards lied
The FBI lied
The CIA lied
Numerous Intel Agencies around the world lied
They all lied so that GW Bush could go to Iraq and take all their oil and give it to his rich oil buddies in Texas. And France Russia and Germany is who we should trust even though they violated the oil for food program that the mighty UN set up and enforced. Holy Cow for such a stupid man that GW Bush sure knows how to get everyone to lie for him, especially all the people of the previous administration. He must have some kind of mind power over the whole world.
Hip Knows All!
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Hip why don't you tell that to the thousands of victims and victims families that Sadaam used them on?
Libya has seen the writing on the wall in regards to WMDs and the like after we took Iraq, one day, hopefully soon the remaining stockpiles of the WMDs used to kill the thousands of Kurds and Iranis (that according to Hip never existed) will be found and Hip and his fellow pacifist will all come together and dine on a big old crow pie!
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Chemical weapons found!!!!
