Posted on 02/09/2016 9:48:43 AM PST by jazusamo
Video at link.
The nation's top intelligence official confirmed Tuesday that the Islamic State has succeeded in making and deploying chemical agents in Iraq and Syria -- calling it the first such attack by an extremist group in more than two decades.
The confirmation of mustard gas use came during Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he spoke to the Islamic State's growing sophistication online and in the battlefield.
He did not elaborate on where and when the chemical attacks occurred, though there has been mounting evidence the terror group was experimenting with chemical weapons.
"[The Syrian government] has used chemicals against the opposition on multiple occasions since Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention. ISIL has also used toxic chemicals in Iraq and Syria, including the blister agent Sulfur mustard," Clapper said.
He said this marks the first time an extremist group has produced and used a "chemical warfare agent in an attack since Aum Shinrikyo used sarin in Japan in 1995," referring to the Tokyo subway terror attack that year.
Fox News previously reported on ISIS' potential experimentation with chemical weapons. Photos taken by the Kurds in northern Iraq last summer and reviewed by Fox News showed burns and blistering on skin following exposure to "odorless, colorless" agents absorbed through the clothing. A doctor who was in northern Iraq last year said he treated Kurdish fighters whom ISIS used as "lab rats for WMD," adding that the variety of burns and illnesses suggested that "mustard gas, precursors, as well as neurotoxic acids" were being tested.
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Funding made possible by Obama.
This is impossible because not even Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
I bin tole.
So it was the rebels who used chemical weapons in Syria. Oops. Our bad.
Lotsa people said he din’t so it must be true. Huh
ISIS are a direct creation of the Saudis and Turks - a Sunni Islam tool to wage Proxy war against Assad and his heretical Alewites, Iran and Russia (and for the Erdogan family, a black-market business partner) The Saudis probably believe they can reign-in ISIS once they achieve their goals.
ISIS, therefore, are indirectly a creation of Obama and the US Government.
With our tax dollars.
Uh Oh!!! The red line has been crossed AGAIN! Obama will probably cut off their supply of Skittles.
Uh Huh... ISIS had to make them because they weren’t there already and certainly didn’t come from Iraq. Neither did the chemical weapons Assad used - even though Syria never had a WMD program.
Ah but they did...the issue being their source...us. We gave them the chemicals and truck mounted sprayers and then had to send in the green berets to account/destroy them.
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