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| US strikes IS group chemical weapons capabilities: Pentagon | |
| 2016-03-11 | |
| [AlAhram] The United States has carried out air strikes that it believes have degraded the chemical weapons capabilities of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group in Iraq after using information obtained from a captured bad boy, the Pentagon said on Thursday. US-led coalition forces detained Sulayman Dawud al Bakkar, IS group's head of chemical and traditional weapons manufacturing, during an operation in Iraq in February, Pentagon front man Peter Cook said in a statement. "We believe that the information we've been able to obtain will allow us to conduct additional operations," Cook said at a news briefing on Thursday. Cook said the intelligence came from "the information we learned from this individual." Al Bakkar, also known as Abu Dawud, was transferred to Iraqi custody on Thursday, Cook said. He gave details about IS group's chemical weapons facilities and production and the people involved, Cook said. He said the United States does not believe it has been able to altogether eliminate IS group's chemical weapons capability.
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , citing officials, said that the U.S.-led air campaign targeted a weapons production plant in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq and another against a "tactical unit" near Mosul believed to be linked to the program. In February, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan for the first time openly accused the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group of using chemical weapons, including mustard gas, in Iraq and Syria. | |
| Posted by:Trailing wife |
| #5 Bombed their hummus supply? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-11 15:35 |
| #4 Beqaa has been controlled by Hezbollah in the past. No idea about today. Keep in mind that the ISIS people were getting support from Iran and Syria and their allies like Hezbollah back in the 'noughts when they were "the resistance" in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-11 14:08 |
| #3 Now was that so hard? 0bama could have hit Syria's CBW capabilities instead of walking away from his red line and triggering the Ukraine and ISIS crises. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-03-11 13:48 |
| #2 Beqaa is in Lebanon, Blossom Splat8740. Is that Hizb'allah territory? I can't imagine them sharing such things with ISIS, despite Iran sheltering that Al Qaeda contingent for so long. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-11 12:24 |
| #1 Any proximity to Beqaa, where those mysterious trucks from Iraq went, nearly a decade and half ago? |
| Posted by: Blossom Splat8740 2016-03-11 10:49 |