The scavenger hunt in Iraq proved futile, but the threat of terrorists getting their busy little hands on these gruesome weapons of mass destruction appears to be alive and kicking in Russia, according to The Moscow Times:

Earlier this summer, the chief of the Defense Ministry’s nuclear safety and security department said there was a constant stream of intelligence from the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service) indicating that terrorist groups were developing plans to target the military’s nuclear arsenals….

Patrushev’s comments came after Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev vowed to “do everything possible” to end the second Chechen war. Basayev had ordered radioactive materials planted in Moscow and threatened to detonate them to end the first Chechen war.
Reminds me of a series I wrote some seven years ago, preserved for posterity by UCLA’s Web Project.
I always enjoyed the interactive map — and, no, I couldn’t find any evidence of existing biological or chemical weapons in Iraq either.