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Confirmed: Islamic State controls and is actively utilizing an Iraqi chemical weapons facility
"The Iraqi troops who stood at that entrance [of the chemical weapons facility] are no longer there. The compound, never [properly neutralized], is now controlled by the Islamic State."
By Matt Bradwell | Oct. 15, 2014 at 2:12 PM |
Secretary of State John Kerry during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the the Islamic State, in Washington, D.C UPI/Kevin Dietsch.
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AL MUTHANNA, Iraq, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The New York Times has confirmed fears that the Islamic State now controls a Saddam-era chemical weapons facility believed to containing active weaponry in Al Muthanna, Iraq.
First reported by the Huffington Post and later confirmed by the New York Times, the terrorist group's newly acquired arms came to international attention after a report released by the Israel-based Global Research in International Affairs Center suggested there was strong evidence Islamic State militants used the weapons against Kurdish soldiers in Syria after seizing them in June.
According to the Huffington Post's initial report, "The [GRIAC] report accuses the Islamic State of using chemical weapons in a July 12 battle in an eastern part of Kobani during a previous offensive into the Kurdish enclave."
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Confirmed: Islamic State controls and is actively utilizing an Iraqi chemical weapons facility
"The Iraqi troops who stood at that entrance [of the chemical weapons facility] are no longer there. The compound, never [properly neutralized], is now controlled by the Islamic State."
By Matt Bradwell | Oct. 15, 2014 at 2:12 PM |
Secretary of State John Kerry during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the the Islamic State, in Washington, D.C UPI/Kevin Dietsch.
| License Photo
AL MUTHANNA, Iraq, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The New York Times has confirmed fears that the Islamic State now controls a Saddam-era chemical weapons facility believed to containing active weaponry in Al Muthanna, Iraq.
First reported by the Huffington Post and later confirmed by the New York Times, the terrorist group's newly acquired arms came to international attention after a report released by the Israel-based Global Research in International Affairs Center suggested there was strong evidence Islamic State militants used the weapons against Kurdish soldiers in Syria after seizing them in June.
According to the Huffington Post's initial report, "The [GRIAC] report accuses the Islamic State of using chemical weapons in a July 12 battle in an eastern part of Kobani during a previous offensive into the Kurdish enclave."
Read more:
Confirmed ISIS controls and is actively utilizing an Iraqi chemical weapons facility - UPI.com