Published: 10/19/2014
ISIS assessed to have Sarin nerve gas capability
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WASHINGTON – The areas of Iraq that ISIS has conquered could give the jihadist army access to some 2,500 rockets containing the deadly nerve gas Sarin.
The nerve agent housed at the Muthanna State Establishment is left over from the time the United States invaded and then bombed the facility during the first Gulf War in 1990.
Last June, Iraqi officials had informed the United Nations that ISIS had access to the facility and its abandoned weapons, which the Iraqi government had not destroyed. The Iraqi officials said that through remote CCTV, they observed ISIS jihadists looting the partially destroyed equipment and abandoned ordnance before the signal was knocked out, Britain’s Daily Mail reported.
In June, following a Wall Street Journal report of the ISIS takeover of the Muthanna facility, the State Department acknowledged ISIS had captured the stockpile of old chemical weapons produced while Saddam Hussein, deposed in 2003, was president of Iraq.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby maintained the U.S. military would not have left chemical material after the American 2011 pullout of Iraq if it posed a security threat.
“The only people who would likely be harmed by these chemical materials would be the people who tried to use or move them,” Kirby said.
Apart from the Muthanna facility, however, ISIS has had access to a secret Sarin poison gas production facility in northeast Iraq as a result of its alliance with a top military commander who previously was an aide to Saddam.
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