Islamic State said to use chemical weapons on Kurds

Times of Israel ^ | October 13, 2014, 9:04 pm

[Dave346]

Kurdish health officials and activists in the besieged town of Kobani claim to possess evidence that Islamic State operatives have used chemical agents as a weapon on at least one occasion during clashes with Kurdish fighters along Syria’s northern border.

According to several reports, which were compiled by the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center’s Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, the use of the toxins by the Islamic State took place on July 12 in the village of Avdiko, 10 days after the rogue Jihadi group launched an offensive on the Kobani enclave, near the Turkish border.

Nisan Ahmed, the health minister of the Kurdish authority in Kobani, said that in a number of photographs showing Kurdish fighters who had been killed during the battle in Avdiko, no visible wounds or external bleeding could be seen on the bodies, whereas severe burns and white spots were clearly visible. Ahmed asserted that the (graphic) photos, which were later obtained and posted online by the Middle East Review of International Affairs journal, suggest the fighters had died as a result of exposure to chemical toxins.

While it still remains unclear whether chemical agents were actually used by the Islamic State, Israeli experts who examined the photographs said the wounds, which included severe peeling of the skin and heavy blistering, suggested the Kurdish fighters had been exposed to mustard gas, the GLORIA Center reported. The experts added, however, that more data was needed to form a definitive conclusion.

In early July, shortly before the attack on Kobani, officials in Iraq reported that the Islamic State had taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin, or their remnants, were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.

[cardinal4]

Where the hell did they get chemical weapons?? Don’t answer that, rhetorical question..

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is Obama going to draw a red line on their use of chemical weapons? Then say that its not his red line but the worlds red line???

[caligatrux]

...officials in Iraq reported that the Islamic State had taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin, or their remnants, were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.

Silly reporters. There were no WMDs in Iraq, remember? Bush lied, the intel was fake, Valerie Plame, etc. So this can't possibly be true.

[cardinal4]

He never said that../s

[DoughtyOne]

LMAO, E X A C T L Y !

[Steely Tom]

I'm just relieved that they didn't make anyone wear underpants on their head.

That would have been an international outrage.

[Diogenesis]

That would make Turkey and Moslem Impostor Obola happy.

[RayChuang88]

Easily home made. Tabun (GA), the first of the known nerve gases, is easily made in homemade stills, and in large quantities. Indeed, most known nerve gas attacks during the Iran-Iraq War used Tabun because it was so cheap to manufacture in large quantities.

[cardinal4]

Wait till these guys get a hold of a body killed by Obola..

[caligatrux]

Easily home made. Tabun (GA), the first of the known nerve gases...

But why would they need to make homemade Tabun when they have 2,500 chemical rockets full of Sarin gas?

Oh, wait, now I remember, because those chemical rockets don't really count as "real" WMDs. So those Kurds didn't die die, they just died.

[Pollster1]

Islamic State operatives have used chemical agents as a weapon

That crosses Obama's red line. I imagine we'll send more "boots on the ground" . . . to Liberia.

[SkyPilot]

Israel is next on their target list. There is a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah that says the city of Damascus will be turned into a smoldering heap overnight.If they target Israel with WMD, Israel will retaliate.

[The Great RJ]

Coming soon to American cities courtesy of Obama.

[Genoa]

Isaiah 17

[xp38]

Everything old is new again

[depressed in 06]

The Kurds are doomed if OdumBO draws a red line.

[TigersEye]

No worries! Those WMDs don’t really exist.