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“ISIS Capable of Making Dirty Bombs With Chemical Weapons Cache in Iraq, Former British Colonel Warns”
by The Vancourver Sun
October 16th, 2014

LONDON and NEW YORK — A former commander of the British Army’s chemical and nuclear weapons protection forces has warned that the Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) has the capability of making battlefield dirty bombs.

It emerged that hundred of shells filled with poison gas are stored unguarded in areas controlled by the jihadists.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former colonel, issued the warning after it was found that two large stockpiles of shells filled with mustard and sarin gas had not been made secure, either under the American occupation or when Iraqi forces controlled the areas north of Baghdad before this summer.

Mr. Bretton-Gordon said ISIS had shown it was determined to use chemical weapons in Syria and its advance in Iraq had put dangerous material within the group’s grasp.

“These materials are not as secure as we had been led to believe and now pose some significant threat to the coalition in Iraq fighting ISIL,” he said, using another acronym for the terror group.

“We know that ISIL have researched the use of chemical weapons in Syria for the last two years and worryingly there are already unconfirmed reports that ISIL has used mustard gas as it pursues its offensive against the Kurds in Kobani.

“They certainly have access to the Al-Qaeda research into chemical weapons and will want to use the legacy weapons in Iraq.” ISIS seized the Muthanna State Establishment, where Iraqi chemical agent production was based in the Eighties, this summer.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that last year, two contaminated bunkers there containing cyanide components and sarin gas rockets as well as other shells had not been encased in concrete and made safe.

It also reported that another large bunker where U.S. marines found mustard shells in 2008 was overgrown and abandoned during the same visit. Jace Klibenski, a corporal, told the newspaper: “There were just rounds everywhere.”

Iraqi officials added that an army base near Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit, which fell to ISIS during the same lightning offensive, housed a shipping container “packed with chemical shells”.

All told, the Iraqi government has estimated that about 2,500 chemical shells were stored within ISIS territory, but it has never admitted that the bunkers had not been put beyond use.

The allegations that ISIS could access chemical-filled munitions heightens concern over use of the weapons, either in Iraq or Syria. “If in Kobani”.

A State Department spokesman said the American government was investigating claims that ISIS had used chemical weapons.

The New York Times found that 17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers were exposed to nerve or mustard agents after 2003 but reported that American soldiers were instructed to cover up their experiences.

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