Coalition kills Islamic State 'chemical weapons engineer'

longwarjournal.org ^ | January 31, 2015 12:40 PM | By Bill Roggio

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

US Central Command, or CENTCOM, reported yesterday that it killed Abu Malik, an Islamic State "chemical weapons engineer," in an airstrike near Mosul, Iraq. Abu Malik was associated with al Qaeda in Iraq and then the Islamic State for a decade before he was killed.

"Malik was an ISIL (Islamic State) chemical weapons engineer who worked at Saddam Hussein's Muthana chemical weapon production facility before affiliating with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005," according to the CENTCOM press release. "He later joined ISIL and his past training and experience provided the terrorist group with expertise to pursue a chemical weapons capability."

"His death is expected to temporarily degrade and disrupt the terrorist network and diminish ISIL's ability to potentially produce and use chemical weapons against innocent people," CENTCOM concluded.

It is unclear if Abu Malik was associated with the al Qaeda in Iraq cell that the Iraqi Ministry of Defense broken up in 2013 (al Qaeda in Iraq was eventually rebranded as the Islamic State). That cell was seeking to manufacture chemical weapons, including sarin nerve gas, and plotting to conduct attacks within Iraq, Europe, and North America, according to the Iraqi government.

[exit82]

"Malik was an ISIL (Islamic State) chemical weapons engineer who worked at Saddam Hussein's Muthana chemical weapon production facility before affiliating with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005,"

But, but, there were no WMD's in Iraq--everybody knows that.... PROJECTILE VOMITING /s

[ColdOne]

Mighty convenient now to tell the world Saddam had WMDs.

[Mastador1]

Now, now, they weren't weapons of mass destruction, they were chemical weapons, not the same thing at all....................to a liberal who can't admit that Saddam actually did have WMD's, because that would go against their narrative that Bush lied and people died.

[BenLurkin]

"worked at Saddam Hussein's Muthana chemical weapon production facility"

[ConservativeInPA]

Now, now, they weren't weapons of mass destruction, they were chemical weapons, not the same thing at all

Exactly, just like liberals think an armed insurgency that commits terrorist acts is not the same thing as a terrorist organization.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Must be a new thing....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Back to WMD’s again.

Que Joel Rosenberg's new thriller Third Target-- --rumors of ISIS having Chemical weapons and making plans to use them and a NYT correspondent is on a mission to find out what is up....

[TigersEye]

• Wikileaks documents show WMDs found in Iraq
• Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
• WMDs Found in Iraq Human Events
• Saddam talked of WMD attack in U.S.
• Saddam's WMD have been found
• Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
• Saddam general: WMDs in Syria
• Deadly chemicals are found dumped in river
• Evidence of WMDs in Iraq - Annonymous Freeper in Iraq
• Cyanide Salt Block Found in Iraq
• MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River
• EUPHRATES 'POISONED'
• Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
• Iraq's biological weapons program.
• Iraq's chemical weapons program.
• The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons NYTs October 14, 2014

[Marine_Uncle]

Ernest. What really pisses me off in a royal form, is when
I hear some general or other former official, or one of
the few more conservative side journalist say, Iraq possessed
no wmds. Really pisses me off.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for that !

[TigersEye]

Facts happen! ;-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This just popped up on a keyword search---2005:

The Mother of All Connections (New evidence of collaboration between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda)

From The weekly Standard

[TigersEye]

Wow! That’s the mother of all articles. Good find!

[Joe Boucher]

the only good mooselimb is a dead mooselimb

[Grampa Dave]

“But, but, there were no WMD’s in Iraq—everybody knows that..”

Just like the Taliban, al Queda and Isis aren’t terrorist organizations.

Democrats have a genetic disability in that they can’t tell the truth.