The recent capture of one of the main ISIS operatives on its chemical
weapons program has not only provided the Americans with details about
ISIS’ production and storage of chemicals for warfare, but also once and
for all confirmed that the radical group actually has such a program.
Up till now, some twenty chemical attacks by ISIS have been reported in
Iraq and Syria, but only a few have been independently confirmed as
such.
The Islamic group is suspected to have deployed two kinds of chemical
weapons up till now: crude chlorine and mustard agent, and mostly the
latter.
According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
it used mustard gas on three fronts in August 2015: in an attack on the
city of Marea in the Syrian Aleppo province and in two attacks in Iraq,
on the Makhmour front near the Kurdish capital of Erbil.
Recently, an attack has been reported on the village of Taza, near
Kirkuk, hitting mainly civilians who sustained skin burns and breathing
problems.
The question is: where did ISIS get these chemicals from? Read more here
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