{"id":51743,"date":"2014-06-20T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51743"},"modified":"2014-06-19T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T00:30:45","slug":"husseins-chemical-weapons-in-the-hands-of-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51743","title":{"rendered":"Hussein’s chemical weapons in the hands of ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports that some of Saddam Hussein’s old chemical weapons have fallen into the hands of the al Qaeda terrorists currently marching on Baghdad. Oh, but don’t worry, we always knew that they were there, and they’re degraded, and they’re dangerous to move. So relax;<\/p>\n

U.S. officials don’t believe the Sunni militants will be able to create a functional chemical weapon from the material. The weapons stockpiled at the Al Muthanna complex are old, contaminated and hard to move, officials said.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the capture of the chemical-weapon stockpile by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, known as ISIS or ISIL, the militant group that is seizing territory in the country, has grabbed the attention of the U.S.<\/p>\n

“We remain concerned about the seizure of any military site by the ISIL,” Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said in a written statement. “We do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the materials.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure that people who regularly blow themselves up and have their own divine deaths drilled into their heads since birth are worried about moving some dangerous chemicals to a point where they can be deadly and take out some infidels along with some Shi’ites.<\/p>\n

Military officials said the U.S. was well aware of the Muthanna stockpile and wouldn’t have left it there if it posed a military threat. Still, when the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, it didn’t anticipate a large swath of the country, including numerous military bases, would be overrun by radical Sunni militants. One defense official said that if the U.S. had known the Iraqi government would lose control so soon, it might not have left the old chemical weapons in place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m thinking that the term “militarily useless” takes into account that the weapons are in the hands of Stone Age creatures who don’t need an artillery shell or missile to contaminate people, including themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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