ISIS and chemical weapons?

Obama has been under fire the last few days for saying he has "no complete strategy" for  a US role in training  Iraqis against ISIS..  As daily news comes of ISIS rampaging unhindered through huge swaths, now comes news that should surprise nobody.

From The Independant(UK):

Isis recruiting 'highly trained foreigners' to produce chemical weapons 


 7 June, 2015
Alexander Wolf


The terrorist group Isis is recruiting “highly trained professionals” to make chemical weapons – and has already used them in an attack.The Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, said the group was now undertaking "serious efforts" to develop their chemical weapons arsenal.


Speaking to the Australia Group, which is composed of nations against chemical weapons, she said:


“Da’esh [Isis] is likely to have amongst its tens of thousands of recruits the technical expertise necessary to further refine precursor materials and build chemical weapons,” Ms Bishop added.


Ms Bishop’s speech is the latest concern that Isis is attempting to acquire nuclear and chemical and biological weapons, after India warned the extremists could obtain a nuclear weapon from Pakistan.


It was reported in March that Isis had been attacking Iraqi soldiers with roadside bombs containing chlorine gas in fighting around Tikrit, after footage emerged showing plumes of orange smoke emerging for the bombs....


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[Ms Bishops says]  They seek to undermine and overthrow that order – and as we have seen, are prepared to use any and all means – any and all forms of violence they can think of to advance their demented cause.

Much more here.   GO read it all.

ISIS using chemical weapons against Peshmerga

From Homeland Security NewsWire:

ISIS employed crude chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga


March 16, 2015


Kurdish sources in Iraq have said they have evidence that Islamic State (ISIS) used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against Kurdish peshmerga fighters. The Kurdistan Region Security Council said the chlorine gas was spread by a suicide truck bomb attack on 23 January in northern Iraq. Iraqi officials and Kurds fighting in Syria have made several similar allegations since last fall about ISIS using chlorine chemical weapons against them. In the previous Islamist insurgency in Iraq – in Anbar province, in 2006-2007 – there was evidence of chemical use by the insurgents. The insurgents in 2006-2007 were members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later transformed itself into ISIS.


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In a statement, the Kurdish council said the attack took place on a road between Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and the Syrian border, where peshmerga forces were fighting to re-take a supply line used by ISIS militants. Kurdish sources said that Kurdish fighters found “around twenty gas canisters” which had been loaded onto the truck involved in the attack.


The Guardian reports that the Kurdish council provided a video showing a truck racing down a road, white smoke pouring out of it as it came under heavy fire from peshmerga fighters. It later showed a white, billowing cloud after the truck exploded and the remnants of it scattered across a road....

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Western leaders will denounce this in 3...2...1......Oh wait!  Nothing to see here...