Posted on 06/06/2015 12:57:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The comments follow allegations by Iraqi Kurdish authorities that they have evidence that ISIS used chlorine gas against their peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq.
PERTH - Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a weapon and are recruiting highly trained technicians in a serious bid to develop chemical weapons, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned.
In a speech to an international forum of nations that works to fight the spread of such weapons, Bishop said the rise of militant groups such as ISIS, also known as Daish, posed “one of the gravest security threats we face today.” “Apart from some crude and small scale endeavours, the conventional wisdom has been that the terrorist intention to acquire and weaponise chemical agents has been largely aspirational,” Bishop told a meeting of the Australia Group in Perth. The speech on Friday was posted online....
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Joshing *Earnest* will deny in 3...2...1
Don’t doubt for a minute that once they get weapons like that they will use them without hesitating. This applies to Nukes as well. God forbid they ever latch on to one of those.
Yea, well, stuff like this is just not news worthy when there’s a Dem in the whitehouse.
Besides, stop picking on the Democrats friends, racist! /s
But...but...but...
I thought we were told it was ASSAD that used chemical weapons...
/s
Our allies the Peshmerga should return the favor.
For months, I’ve been trying to figure out Obama’s game in Syria.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the ONLY thing he cares about is running Assad out, then turning the whole place over to the Brotherhood.
A squadron of A-10’s could have finished ISIS in a week, if they had been ALLOWED to.
“I thought we were told it was ASSAD that used chemical weapons...”
Me too. That’s all we’ve been told. Why even McCain posed with people that would become ISIS leaders. And what’s a few thousand chopped off heads between friends anyway?
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