Samples confirm ISIS used mustard gas in Iraq–Diplomat
Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gaslast year, in the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, adiplomat said, after tests by the global chemical arms watchdog. A source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed that laboratory tests had come back positive for the sulfur mustard, after around 35 Kurdish troops […]Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gaslast year, in the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, adiplomat said, after tests by the global chemical arms watchdog. A source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed that laboratory tests had come back positive for the sulfur mustard, after around 35 Kurdish troops were sickened on the battlefield last August.
The OPCW will not identify who used the chemical agent. But the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the findings have not yet been released, said the result confirmed that chemical weapons had been used by Islamic State fighters.
