Libya: Gaddafi regime could unleash chemical weapons stockpile

Desperate members of the collapsing Gaddafi regime could try to unleash Libya’s stocks of chemical weapons, William Hague has warned.

Gaddafi should face justice in Libya if captured alive Photo: REUTERS

By Thomas Harding, James Kirkup

7:04PM BST 23 Aug 2011

Nato chiefs are also braced for Col Gaddafi’s allies firing Scud missiles as a final throw of the dice against towns held by opposition forces.

Intelligence sources have disclosed that he has up to 240 Scud B missiles that could be fired on civilians in a last ditch act of vengeance.