[Fiscal Times] A few weeks ago, the US Central Command announced that an air raid had killed an ISIS chemical weapon expert in Mosul. The ISIS operative, Iraqi engineer Mahmoud al-Sabawi, used to work at Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons program before he joined al-Qaeda in Iraq after the 2003 US led invasion.
The idea that ISIS terrorists have access to chemical weapons brings back images of the genocide inflicted on the Kurds by Saddam Hussein in the late 1980's. The Halabja Massacre killed up to 5,000 and injured between 7,000 and 10,000 more.
If ISIS jihadists have a stash of chemical weapons, they won't hesitate to use them on the Kurdish people or anyone else who has challenged their authority. Since President Champ has just asked Congress to for additional war powers to fight ISIS, it is important to know if the enemy has such weapons.
No sense operating under the bold assumption that they do possess WMD now is there ? |