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Islamic State ‘Dead Set’ on Using Chemical Weapons

Part of the Islamic State terror group’s plan to turn the northern Iraqi city of Mosul into “hell on earth” could well include a barrage of homemade chemical weapons. U.S. military officials fully expect IS militants to unleash their chemical weapons arsenal as Iraqi and Kurdish forces advance on the self-declared caliphate’s Iraqi capital. “This […]

Jeff Seldin writes for Voice of America:

Part of the Islamic State terror group’s plan to turn the northern Iraqi city of Mosul into “hell on earth” could well include a barrage of homemade chemical weapons.

U.S. military officials fully expect IS militants to unleash their chemical weapons arsenal as Iraqi and Kurdish forces advance on the self-declared caliphate’s Iraqi capital.

“This is real. They’re dead set on it,” Pentagon spokesman, Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Monday, saying the military has documented at least a couple of dozen instances in which IS has used or tried to used chemical weapons.