from CNN: Report: New illicit Iraqi rocket found.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Amid the ongoing diplomatic wrangling at the U.N., a newspaper quoted U.S. officials Monday as saying U.N. weapons inspectors have found a new Iraqi rocket capable of spreading biological or chemical agents over wide spaces.



The New York Times quotes U.S. officials who said Iraq conceded that the previously unknown missile, constructed from parts of other weapons, might have been configured -- in some cases -- as a chemical weapon. The newspaper quotes an unnamed American official who said the missile appeared to use "cluster munitions" to disperse the deadly agents.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix did not mention the rocket during his presentation Friday to the Security Council. But the discovery is supported by Blix's 173-page report detailing the history of Iraq's weapons program, according to the Times.

The report surfaced as Iraq continued to destroy its Al Samoud 2 missiles Monday, according to Iraq's Information Ministry.