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| Iraq |
| Isil carrying out chemical experiments on its prisoners |
| 2016-05-23 |
| [The Telegraph] Islamic State has moved its chemical weapons operation to densely populated residential areas and is testing homemade chlorine and mustard gas on its prisoners, residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul have claimed. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) is reported to have set up laboratories in built-up neighbourhoods in the heart of its so-called caliphate to avoid being targeted by coalition air strikes. The terror group is known to harbour chemical and nuclear ambitions, and is trying to manufacture weapons not only for attacks within Iraq and Syria but also the West. It has a special unit for chemical weapons research made up of Iraqi scientists who worked on weapons programmes under Saddam Hussein, as well as foreign experts. The head of the unit, Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, was captured during a raid by US special forces outside Mosul in March and is now sharing intelligence on Isil’s chemical operation. An investigation by Syrian and Iraqi citizen journalists who report under the name Sound and Picture, reveal he has now been replaced by Abu Shaima, an Iraqi doctor who worked at the University of Baghdad during Saddam’s reign. Other than his links to the late Iraqi dictator little is known about Shaima, which is customary for top Isil leaders. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 We should allow this to go forward so they will be able to fully develop these weapons, import them to Western cities, and kill and injure a bunch of folks there. Yes, /sarc. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-05-23 13:18 |