The article is underestimating the ingenuity of these folks. As someone who has been there several times, and has seen how they can take what to the average person is a bunch of junk and turn it into a weapon. Just because they live in mud huts does not mean they don't know how to build a weapon out of just about anything they can get their hands on.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Here is the complete section: > > 16.32 Isis jihadists have seized a chemical weapons facility built by > Saddam > Hussein which contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department > officials have told the Wall Street Journal: > > Quote U.S. officials don't believe the Sunni militants will be able to > create a functional chemical weapon from the material. The weapons > stockpiled at the Al Muthanna complex are old, contaminated and hard to > move, officials said. > > Nonetheless, the capture of the chemical-weapon stockpile by the forces of > the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, known as ISIS or ISIL, the militant > group that is seizing territory in the country, has grabbed the attention > of > the U.S. > > "We remain concerned about the seizure of any military site by the ISIL," > Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said in a written statement. > "We do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value > and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the > materials." > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
