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By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog is urgently seeking commercial firms to destroy toxins from Syria's poison gas arsenal, and trying to find a Mediterranean port where the deadliest chemicals can first be processed off-shore. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is racing to cobble together a "Plan B" to eradicate Syria's poison gas arsenal, after Albania abruptly backed out of an offer last week to host the destruction. The OPCW is expected to ask companies formally on Thursday to bid for commercial contracts to treat around 800 tonnes of bulk industrial chemicals that are safe to destroy in commercial incinerators, a document reviewed by Reuters shows. The OPCW would need to find a port in the area where it can oversee the offshore work and then ship out the waste products.
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