UN and Chemical Watchdog to Destroy Syrian Weapons

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. secretary-general recommended Monday that approximately 100 people from the United Nations and the world's chemical weapons watchdog agency be part of an unprecedented and dangerous joint mission to eliminate Syria's poison gas stockpile. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council obtained by The Associated Press that the goal of destroying Syria's chemical weapons program by mid-2014 will require "an operation the likes of whi...