them. they were put into two very large bunkers and sealed in concrete. now, when i went back in 2003 and went out to this facility, i discovered that indeed, in the period after the inspectors, u.n. inspects are left in 1998 and before the second gulf war in 2003, the iraqis are someone had broken into some of the bunkers and gone through various facilities. now, whether they gathered together is a lot of scrap that was contaminated. it was more toxic than chemical weapons. the iraqi chemical weapons most of them did not survive as stable chemical weapons in the environment for very long. so there certainly are chem wal weapons and leakers there still. but they re much more dangerous to anyone who tries to get them than they had to anyone they could possibly be used on. the insurgents in 2004, five, tried to use a couple of these weapons as improvised roadside
they don t want to talk about it right now. if the u.s. can kill some of the bad guys fighting in syria, if they can kill them or help kill them in the desert, that s not a bad thing for the syrian conflict. we re seeing the syrian air force coming into iraq and bombing targets in iraq. you ve got cooperation between the iraqi government and the syrian government killing people in iraq. now, we re going to get involved in that. we re going to put u.s. forces in the middle of this? this is a real problem. that s why it s so complicated and clearly the president has been so hesitant to get involved. mission creep, can t have it. appreciate seeing you. coming up on the lead, a terrorist organization has taken over another building in iraq. only this one houses the remnants of saddam hussein s chemical weapons. we ll ask a former weapons inspector in iraq what these weapons were doing there in the first place. and then paul ryan has gone from running for vp to calling bs on the
boots on the ground. meantime, the united nations now says this terror siege forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes in iraq, but many who stayed behind are taking up arms against the sunni extremists who are vowing to take baghdad and now have one of saddam hussein s old bombed out dusty chemical weapons plants. we ll have much more on that latter with the former chief u.s. weapons inspector. meanwhile, senior international correspondent nic robertson has the latest from baghdad. reporter: in a nationally televised address, a top shia cleric sought to tamp down sectarian tensions calling on the government to ban all militias and clarifying an earlier call to arms. translator: this call was directed to everybody and not to one sect. it aimed to prepare to stand up to isis that has got the upper hand and strongest presence in
the inspectors destroyed everything that could be safely destroyed. the technical advice was some of these are simply too dangerous to handle. they re leaking. saddam had two things he did that were just still to this day amazing to me. one he didn t mark which weapons where is chemical and which were high explosives. this is why some in the u.s. military in 1991 were exposed when they tried to get rid of what they thought were high explosi explosive. he mixed chemical agents in a way no one has ever done. you found sarin mixed with mustard mixed with tear gas. some of these things were simply too dangerous and they were sealed. so it s a relatively small number and like i say, mostly today given the time and heat in iraq, they ve disappeared. now, the iraqi government the inspectors left in 98. in 2000, the u.s. left in the 2011. there have been no eyes on this facility as far as i know since
2011. and i think that s largely because everyone looked at the technical judgments made and said, it s a dangerous toxic waste dump. it is not weapon storage. so just quickly yes or no, there s nothing the u.s. should be doing about this now? i m not sure. i mean, i m not with current intelligence. i can imagine some things you might do, cluster munitions for example that would discourage even more i.c.e. soldiers from going around. but basically, i m not award about this. there are other things you have to realize, i.c.e. sees a large amount of current u.s. military equipment that we had given to the iraqi military when they abandoned mosul and fled towards baghdad. so they actually have some very good weapons in their hands now, and the chemical weapons are really not military weapons. david kay, that s why we brought you in. thank you for clearing this up. i know a lot of people were