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ISIS Turns to Chemical Weapons As It Loses Ground in Iraq
Fiscal Times ^ | February 22, 2015 | BY RIYADH MOHAMMED, The Fiscal Times

Posted on 02/22/2015 12:05:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson

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 Obama has just asked Congress to for additional war powers to fight ISIS, it is important to know if the enemy has such weapons.

ISIS’s chemical weapons aspiration dates back to the very early roots of the group. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late Jordanian terrorist and the founder of ISIS predecessor organization al-Qaeda in Iraq was very interested in acquiring chemical weapons and using poisons in terrorist attacks.

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1 posted on 02/22/2015 12:05:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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See also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=ISIS+Turns+to+Chemical+Weapons+As+It+Loses+Ground+in+Iraq&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=score&SX=54ea4193cdbfd4a7c540942528e4927d9af5d090


2 posted on 02/22/2015 12:06:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Iraq has no WMDs, doncha know.


3 posted on 02/22/2015 12:06:51 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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Iraq has no WMDs, doncha know.

Well.............not anymore.

4 posted on 02/22/2015 12:09:21 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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I thought that chemical weapons were ‘illegal’ and that the full power of the United Nations Members would be brought upon anyone who uses them.


5 posted on 02/22/2015 12:09:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Lol. The same newspaper that called Bush a liar for claiming there were WMD in Iraq. You can not make this stuff up!


6 posted on 02/22/2015 12:09:48 PM PST by jwalsh07 (E)
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To: combat_boots
Ah, but now that it would serve obama, Eastasia Iraq has always had chemical weapons, Citizen
7 posted on 02/22/2015 12:09:50 PM PST by null and void (People who deny history are trying to recreate it.)
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But...but...but..Sadaam *had* no chemical weapons! Dirty Harry (and others) gave us his word!
8 posted on 02/22/2015 12:09:54 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Lower Morals)
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There’s no doubt these ISIS terrorists will use WMD if they have them, and we have people in 0bama’s administration saying not to kill these savages, give them employment. *shaking head*


9 posted on 02/22/2015 12:15:20 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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Or they kept saying Saddam and his buddies did not have ties to terror, but look at them now... Same thing with Obama.


10 posted on 02/22/2015 12:20:07 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM


11 posted on 02/22/2015 12:20:35 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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That’s exactly right. The US press said so. So how in the world could ISIS have a chemical engineer from Saddam’s Iraq with chem weapon expertise? Impossible!


12 posted on 02/22/2015 12:21:36 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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SH in Iraq had many chemical weapons. Many of which were run into hiding in Syria, and probably other places, when the US attack was obvious. This is no surprise. ISIS will do whatever it wants without any fear of meaningful consequences (military might - all they understand).

Total lack of US leadership, will, and dedication to stopping genocide will lead to many more deaths, from various causes. The US needs a true President badly.


13 posted on 02/22/2015 12:21:58 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything")
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I’m sure that is another red line.


14 posted on 02/22/2015 12:23:05 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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I hear there are some great job openings in the chemical weapons factories. I have it on good authority that those high-paying jobs will tamp down their violent tendencies.


15 posted on 02/22/2015 12:24:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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But, but, we were told that Syria used chemical weapons against their citizens and that no terrorist group in the region had chemical weapons or the knowledge to make them..

The media and John Kerry wouldn’t lie to us again, would they?


16 posted on 02/22/2015 12:24:28 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: lavaroise

Probably would have known this almost a decade ago if the Bush Administration hadn’t caved to the Dims over keeping the captured Iraqi documents in the first public domain.


17 posted on 02/22/2015 12:24:34 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Jim Robinson

There are no chemical weapons - the DEMOCRATS told us it was all a George Bush lie.

I am against sending any US troops to Iraq to die for Obama.


18 posted on 02/22/2015 12:28:29 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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deep in the article .”With the fall of massive areas in northern and western Iraq, ISIS was able to control a key area north of Baghdad that used to produce chemical weapons under Saddam. However, the site was empty. The UN inspection teams had destroyed and cleared the site completely from the industrial tools and the main materials that could be used to make chemical or biological weapons, according to the UN teams’ reports.”


19 posted on 02/22/2015 12:30:20 PM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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Nah can’t be..we have been told over and over and over again that Bush lied, those critters don’t have chemical weapons


20 posted on 02/22/2015 12:32:01 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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