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| US: Air strike kills IS ‘chemical weapons expert’ |
| 2015-01-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] Abu Malik had in the past worked in an WMD production plant under Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq A US-led coalition air strike killed a chemical weapons specialist with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Iraq who once worked for Saddam Hussein, US military officers said Friday. The air raid carried out last Saturday near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... took out Abu Malik, whose training "provided the terrorist group with expertise to pursue a chemical weapons capability," the military said in a statement. Malik had worked at a chemical weapons production plant under Saddam's regime and later forged an affiliation with Al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2005, before joining the krazed killer IS group, according to Central Command. "His death is expected to temporarily degrade and disrupt the terrorist network and diminish ISIL's ability to potentially produce and use chemical weapons against innocent people," it said. US officials had not publicly referred to Malik previously as a key figure. There has been no sign that the IS group possesses a major chemical weapons arsenal. But there have been allegations the jihadists have employed chlorine gas, which is classified as a "choking agent," though not as lethal as nerve agents. Abu Malik, also known as Salih Jasim Mohammed Falah al-Sabawi, had been "involved in operations to produce chemical weapons in 2005, and planned attacks in Mosul with AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq]," said a defense official. "Based on his training and experience, he was judged to be capable of creating harmful and deadly chemical agents," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We know ISIL is attempting to pursue a chemical weapons capability, but we have no definitive confirmation that ISIL currently possess chemical weapons," the official said. The US-led coalition has carried out more than 2,000 air raids against the IS group in Syria and Iraq since August 8, including some bombing runs that targeted senior combatants. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 We were also told none of those non-existent chemical weapons were ever transferred to Syria. * Chemical Weapons: Sometimes referred to as Weapons of Mass Distruction (WMD). |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-31 11:43 |
| #4 Malik had worked at a chemical weapons production plant under Saddam's regime... Wait, what? Weren't we told there were no such things? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-01-31 11:29 |
| #3 ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-01-31 11:18 |
| #2 Re #1: one of the very best of lines from the Ace o' Spades. I still snicker when I see it. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-01-31 11:17 |
| #1 killed by hellfire missiles and the heartache of psoriasis, but mostly hellfire missiles |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-01-31 09:14 |