WMD Found?

Here's a story screaming all around the Right blogosphere. Anyone heard anything reliable about it?

Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq Associated Press Kuwait City, October 2 Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Wednesday. The pro-Government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time." It did not say when or how the smugglers entered Kuwait or when they were arrested. The paper said the smugglers might have had accomplices inside Kuwait. It said Interior Minister Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah would hand over the smuggled weapons to an FBI agent at a news conference, but did not say when. Government officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Al-Badran met on Tuesday with Sheik Nawwaf and discussed cooperation between the two countries in security matters. His visit is the first by an Iraqi interior minister to Kuwait since 1990.

Eli Stephens replies:

#1: Since when do chemical and biological weapons have a price tag on them? What a curious detail. I wasn't aware they were sold on the open market and you could actually price them like that. #2: If this were a real story, it would be the talk of Washington & David Kay's testimony. It isn't. If there is any truth to the story at all, which may well be the case, it's probably warheads which "could be used" to deliver chemical or biological weapons, like the ones that Blix found months ago. I.e., empty. There is no such thing as a "biological warhead" and smuggling actual "chemical weapons" is a dubious proposition.