{"id":64264,"date":"2016-02-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64264"},"modified":"2016-02-10T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:35:07","slug":"clapper-isis-is-experimenting-with-chemical-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64264","title":{"rendered":"Clapper; ISIS is experimenting with chemical weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he’s been able to confirm that ISIS has been experimenting with mustard gas in Iraq and Syria;<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Syrian government] has used chemicals against the opposition on multiple occasions since Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention. ISIL has also used toxic chemicals in Iraq and Syria, including the blister agent Sulfur mustard,\u201d Clapper said. <\/p>\n

He said this marks the first time an extremist group has produced and used a “chemical warfare agent in an attack since Aum Shinrikyo used sarin in Japan in 1995,” referring to the Tokyo subway terror attack that year. <\/p>\n

Fox News previously reported on ISIS’ potential experimentation with chemical weapons. Photos taken by the Kurds in northern Iraq last summer and reviewed by Fox News showed burns and blistering on skin following exposure to \u201codorless, colorless\u201d agents absorbed through the clothing. A doctor who was in northern Iraq last year said he treated Kurdish fighters whom ISIS used as “lab rats for WMD,” adding that the variety of burns and illnesses suggested that “mustard gas, precursors, as well as neurotoxic acids” were being tested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that because no one is really committed to destroying this cancer on our planet, we can expect them to get better, or worse, at killing large numbers of people. They don’t seem constrained by any sort of morality or fairness, so the longer that we score only pin prick victories over ISIS, we can expect them to become more ruthless. They have no trouble using methods that are a thousand years old, so why wouldn’t they be able to find acceptable tactics from a hundred years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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