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BY SEAN BROWN / OCTOBER 13, 2014
As the Islamic State terrorist organization continues its advances across Iraq and Syria with the fate of the Syrian city of Kobani hanging in the balance, a chilling report has been released saying the group used an extremely brutal tactic against the Kurdish forces in the area back in July.
The Global Research in International Affairs Center reports that in their most serious attempt to overtake Kobani, the Islamic State used some sort of chemical agent (weapons of mass destruction) against the Kurds of the YPG (Peoples’ Protection Units) in their July 12 offensive, according to a special report from the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA Journal).
A medical team that was established by Nisan Ahmed to examine the fallen fighters discovered that they hadn’t died from gunshot wounds or traditional munitions. His team noted that “burns and white spots on the bodies of the dead indicated the use of chemicals, which led to death without any visible wounds or external bleeding.”
Photos released of the bodies show large burns and peeling skin, both of which are consistent with the use of chemical agents. Israeli experts who have seen the photos say they were most likely caused by mustard (blistering agent).
According to the GLORIA-Center, Islamic State militants likely transferred the weapons from the al-Muthanna compound which was captured by the terrorist group in June.
According to a UN report compiled after the departure of UN inspectors and quoted by Associated Press, bunker 41 contained “2,000 empty 155mm artillery shells contaminated with the chemical warfare agent mustard, 605 one-tonne mustard containers with residues, and heavily contaminated construction material.”
Obama’s State Department had tried to downplay the concern over the Islamic State possibly having weapons of mass destruction in their possession after seizing the facility when spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the “degraded chemical remnants” would be “difficult, if not impossible, to safely use this for military purposes or, frankly, to move it.”
However, a 2007 CIA report stated differently. It said that the precursor agents and production facilities at al-Muthanna weren’t completely destroyed during Desert Storm. It also said that they couldn’t determine what happened to old munitions, chemicals, and materials that were stored there due to the looting done by the Iraqi people.
The CIA report further stated:
Stockpiles of chemical munitions are still stored there. The most dangerous ones have been declared to the UN and are sealed in bunkers. Although declared, the bunkers contents have yet to be confirmed.
Numerous bunkers, including eleven cruciform shaped bunkers were exploited. Some of the bunkers were empty. Some of the bunkers contained large quantities of unfilled chemical munitions.
As the GLORIA-Center notes, there has been no evidence that the situation at the facility has changed since 2007, when the CIA report was released. Further, the recent evidence that chemical weapons were in fact used against the Kurds would indicate that the Islamic State was in fact able to obtain the dangerous weapons, and they’re not afraid to use them if they have to; although, there hasn’t been any evidence of their use aside from this one incident.
Below are the graphic photos of the killed Kurdish fighters:
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SOURCE | http://madworldnews.com/isis-syria-weapons-mass-destruction/
Chilling Report Reveals Weapons the Islamic State May Have That Is a ‘Matter of the Gravest Concern’
“The evidence appears to support the contention that on at least one occasion, Islamic State forces did employ some form of chemical agent, acquired from somewhere,” wrote Jonathan Spyer, author of the report in the Middle East Review of International Affairs.
Gruesome photos may show that the Islamic State previously used chemical weapons, according to a Middle East watchdog. (Image source: MERIA)
Images, which show the bodies of those who fought against the Islamic State’s July assault on a Syrian border town close to Kobani, appear to indicate the use of a chemical agent, according to unnamed Israeli experts who spoke with MERIA.
Experts told the watchdog that the most likely suspect is mustard gas, though confirmation based solely on the photographs is impossible.
TheBlaze has chosen not to publish most of the photos, due to their graphic nature.
Nisan Ahmed, health minister of the Kurdish authority in Kobani, said the bodies of the Kurdish fighters indicated no damage from bullets or other conventional weapons.
“Burns and white spots on the bodies of the dead indicated the use of chemicals…”
Instead, “Burns and white spots on the bodies of the dead indicated the use of chemicals, which led to death without any visible wounds or external bleeding,” he said, according to MERIA.
The Middle Eastern watchdog speculated Islamic State militants may have obtained chemical agents from the Muthanna compound, a facility thought to contain chemical munitions near the captured Syrian city of Raqqa.
In this image shot through a hole in the wall of a house, in Mursitpinar, in the outskirts of Suruc, Turkey, at the Turkey-Syria border, a Turkish forces armoured vehicle patrols the border road, backdropped by a hilltop across the border in Kobani, Syria, where militants with the Islamic State group have placed their group’s flag, during intesified fighting between the militants and Syrian Kurds, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
If verified, it would corroborate a 2007 CIA report which suggested the presence of weapons in the compound, Spyer noted.
He added that the “probable possession” of chemical weapons by the Islamic State “is for obvious reasons a matter of the gravest concern and should be the urgent subject of attention and investigation.”
The State Department had previously downplayed concerns that the capture of the facility posed a danger, saying that it would be “difficult, if not impossible, to safely use this for military purposes or, frankly, to move it.”
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