Iraqi Defense Ministry officials have reported three separate incidents recently in which security forces, either police or military, have fallen suddenly ill in clashes with ISIS, and were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with chlorine poisoning.
Iraqi forces say that the incidents are signs that ISIS is increasingly turning to the use of crude chemical weapons, in the form of chlorine gas attacks, and warn that ISIS might be increasing its capabilities.
Iraqi officials are acting like this is unprecedented, but it really isn’t. ISIS was bragging about its chemical weapons capabilities over a year ago in Syria, and those incidents the US were so eager to blame on the Assad government sickened Syrian troops fighting ISIS.
At the time, the Obama Administration was focused on trying to launch a war with Syria, so the possibility that ISIS was the culprit was loudly dismissed, seemingly for being politically inconvenient. Now that ISIS is the enemy, the US will doubtless be only too willing to reexamine the evidence, looking to revise its story to whatever allows it to escalate the war the most, and says it is now looking into the reports.
I presume the 'US being willing to reexamine the evidence' means they're willing to accept ISIS uses chemical weapons. Whether they're willing to reexamine their position that Assad has been using chemical weapons is doubtful. I don't think it will happen.
Yup, they have to keep their only "justification" for war against Assad alive. After all, eventually ISIS will be defeated but the permanent war must continue.
Iraqi Defense Ministry: ISIS Using Chlorine Gas in Attacks
Fundamental principles of the Baath Party (end justifies the means). Daash plans with the remain of the former Baath Party to reach power in any cost.
Baathist leadership they have knowledge about the location of chemicals which are under their control by now. and they will use it.
Daash use Baathists and vice versa, but their direction completely different .
They are in accord in Killing and destruction innocent iraqis;
Wahhabism doctrine allowing them to kill Shiites and non Wahhabi. Baathists like to revenge to the killing of Saddam on the hand of Shiite government.
The last time Sunni not in power , were in the time of Abdul Karim Qasim , who was half Sunni. After that Sunni were fighting each other for power until the destruction of Iraq , when Shiites took goverment.
Shiites leaders didn't use their power to revenge instead of seeking partnership , so the revenge circle will continue until all parties listen to God and obey his commandments and ruling.
It said : faith is to God but the country is for all.
Any nation that has used the atom bomb to murder 220,000 civilians, mostly women and children, in two cities in Japan that had nothing military in them…
Got a swimming pool supply store? Got chlorine. Got a grocery store? Got chlorine. It's not like making and using chlorine gas is an arcane science or anything.
@azystone
We must endure your wars just so that you people can learn obedience to God, but where is your logic?
For that is almost as bad a logic as Bush and Obama in their war-hawk morality, that an “Axis of Evil” has overpowered God and without Empire USA with all our deadly nukes, completely enslaved by evil would be God.