EVERYTHING BUT THE...

Professor InstaHack links to this story from the Hindustan Times, saying that Kuwaiti security foiled an attempt by some people to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical and biological warheads from Iraq.

Here is the entire text of that article:

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.

Ah yes, the smugglers, the two countries, the security ministers, the interior ministers. Everything seems accounted for. Except, uh, what became of the weapons? If this were true, wouldn't that have been the thrust of our concern here, particularly of the AP writer on the story?

Only, from the looks of it, the weapons didn't exist. There are precisely two possibilities here:

1) This is a BS story made up in Kuwait. Remember, Kuwait is on our list of "dictatorships we like", and they'd love the chance to kiss our govt's butt, after we kissed theirs by leaving their dictatorship in place after liberating them in 91.
...or...
2) There actually was a plot by some smugglers to take weapons out of Iraq into Kuwait... only the smugglers were as clueless about finding the actual weapons as David Kay is. This is the "Put the sarin before the horse" explanation.

Either way, file this story next to the 35 pounds of uranium and the mobile weapons labs.