New Delhi: Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq by US forces in 2003, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi announced that his nation had an active weapons of mass destruction program, but was willing to allow international inspectors into his country to observe and dismantle them.
It was in 2004 inspectors from the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) verified that Libya owned a stockpile of 23 metric tons of mustard gas and more than 1,300 metric tons of precursor chemicals.
