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Terror Networks
US lists French ‘chemical arms expert’ as IS terrorist
2018-03-23
[IsraelTimes] The United States imposes sanctions on a Frenchie it accuses of helping 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group deploy chemical weapons on the Syrian battlefield.

A statement from the State Department identifies the suspect as Joe Asperman and says he had been listed as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist."

"French national Joe Asperman is a senior chemical weapons expert for ISIS," the statement says. "Asperman oversaw chemical operations production within Syria for ISIS and the deployment of these chemical weapons at the battlefront."

Although hundreds of French fighters are thought to have travelled to the Middle East to fight with jihadist groups like the Islamic State, Asperman’s name has not previously been reported.

The US Treasury’s list of sanctioned snuffies says he is believed to have been born in the Cannes region on La Belle France’s southern, Mediterranean coast between 1986 and 1988.

Along with Bashir al-Assad’s Damascus regime, the Islamic State terror group has also been accused of deploying chemical attacks in Syria, where it is one of the factions in the long-running civil war.

Along with Asperman, the State Department also designates the Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari, an gang it describes as an Al Qaeda ally and "the largest Uzbek fighting force in Syria."
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