Syria misses deadline to remove chemical arms

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Ships waiting to remove Syria's chemical weapons have returned to port in Cyprus because the country has missed a December 31 deadline. Syria was supposed to have removed part of its chemical weapons arsenal for destruction on Tuesday, but Wael Nader Al Halqi, Syria's prime minister, said security concerns and bureaucracy had caused delays in transporting the weapons to the Syrian port of Latakia. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports.