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Iraq
ISIS turns to non-existent Iraqi Chemical Weapons as it loses terrain.
2015-02-23
[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 ?
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  If they admit that viable chemical weapons exist, then Bush was right and they can't have that.
Posted by: Chantry   2015-02-23 18:14  

#3  Obama is such a scumbag - trying to lay off his mess and abandonment of Iraq on Bush.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-02-23 11:28  

#2  non-existent

My spidey-sense tells me there is some element of sarcasm here.
Posted by: gorb   2015-02-23 11:00  

#1  This video is several months old but is being shared by many in the ME the past few days.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2015-02-23 00:30  

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