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Coalition kills Islamic State 'chemical weapons engineer'
longwarjournal.org ^
| January 31, 2015 12:40 PM
| By Bill Roggio
Posted on 01/31/2015 11:58:19 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
US Central Command, or CENTCOM, reported yesterday that it killed Abu Malik, an Islamic State "chemical weapons engineer," in an airstrike near Mosul, Iraq. Abu Malik was associated with al Qaeda in Iraq and then the Islamic State for a decade before he was killed.
"Malik was an ISIL (Islamic State) chemical weapons engineer who worked at Saddam Hussein's Muthana chemical weapon production facility before affiliating with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005," according to the CENTCOM press release. "He later joined ISIL and his past training and experience provided the terrorist group with expertise to pursue a chemical weapons capability."
"His death is expected to temporarily degrade and disrupt the terrorist network and diminish ISIL's ability to potentially produce and use chemical weapons against innocent people," CENTCOM concluded.
It is unclear if Abu Malik was associated with the al Qaeda in Iraq cell that the Iraqi Ministry of Defense broken up in 2013 (al Qaeda in Iraq was eventually rebranded as the Islamic State). That cell was seeking to manufacture chemical weapons, including sarin nerve gas, and plotting to conduct attacks within Iraq, Europe, and North America, according to the Iraqi government.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; chemweapons; iraq; isis; saddamhussein; wmd
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Malik was an ISIL (Islamic State) chemical weapons engineer who worked at Saddam Hussein's Muthana chemical weapon production facility before affiliating with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005,"But, but, there were no WMD's in Iraq--everybody knows that.... PROJECTILE VOMITING /s
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posted on
01/31/2015 12:03:48 PM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Mighty convenient now to tell the world Saddam had WMDs.
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posted on
01/31/2015 12:07:34 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: exit82
Now, now, they weren't weapons of mass destruction, they were chemical weapons, not the same thing at all....................to a liberal who can't admit that Saddam actually did have WMD's, because that would go against their narrative that Bush lied and people died.
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posted on
01/31/2015 12:10:41 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"worked at Saddam Hussein's Muthana chemical weapon production facility"
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posted on
01/31/2015 12:14:14 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Mastador1
Now, now, they weren't weapons of mass destruction, they were chemical weapons, not the same thing at allExactly, just like liberals think an armed insurgency that commits terrorist acts is not the same thing as a terrorist organization.
To: BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv; SJackson; GeronL; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye; justa-hairyape; blam; NormsRevenge; ...
Back to WMD’s again.
Que Joel Rosenberg's new thriller Third Target-- --rumors of ISIS having Chemical weapons and making plans to use them and a NYT correspondent is on a mission to find out what is up....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/31/2015 6:28:33 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ernest. What really pisses me off in a royal form, is when
I hear some general or other former official, or one of
the few more conservative side journalist say, Iraq possessed
no wmds. Really pisses me off.
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posted on
01/31/2015 6:35:11 PM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Galt level is not far away......but alas! Honor must be earned...)
To: TigersEye; exit82; ColdOne; Fred Nerks; Mastador1; BenLurkin; ConservativeInPA
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/31/2015 6:55:45 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: TigersEye
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wow! That’s the mother of all articles. Good find!
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posted on
01/31/2015 10:14:49 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
the only good mooselimb is a dead mooselimb
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posted on
02/01/2015 4:52:02 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
To: exit82
“But, but, there were no WMD’s in Iraq—everybody knows that..”
Just like the Taliban, al Queda and Isis aren’t terrorist organizations.
Democrats have a genetic disability in that they can’t tell the truth.
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posted on
02/01/2015 8:29:31 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Will French, German & Belgians make anti-terror raids on our White House, AG Dept and Homeland Sec.?)
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