OPCW document: Syria had ricin program

Published September 19, 2014 1:51pm ET



THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Syrian authorities have declared that they once had a program to produce the deadly toxin ricin, according to an official document of the global chemical weapons watchdog.

A report on the website of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says that Damascus revealed in July “a facility for the production of ricin” along with two other “chemical weapons-related facilities.”

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