ISIS Used Mustard Gas Against Kurdish Forces in Iraq, U.S. Believes

[Little Tich]

Source: NBC News

U.S. officials believe the terror group ISIS used chemical weapons in Iraq this week, defense and intelligence officials said Thursday.

The terror group used mustard gas in an attack against Kurdish fighters, two defense officials and an intelligence official told NBC News. Mustard gas, infamously used during World War I, can cause blisters, blindness and respiratory damage.

The defense officials said this is the second time ISIS has used chemical weapons — the first occurred in "recent weeks" in Syria — but they declined to provide more details, citing operational security concerns.

Kurdish fighters have reported that chemical weapons had been used in ISIS attacks in the past. In March, the Kurdistan Region Security Council claimed that chlorine gas was used in a Jan. 23 suicide truck bomb attack in northern Iraq. Thursday was the first time U.S. officials have said they believe chemical weapons were used by ISIS.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-used-mustard-gas-against-kurdish-forces-iraq-u-s-n409461

[giftedgirl77]

1. Lololol, mustard gas....

Looks like troops need to start packing, time to shift back from Afghanistan to Iraq.

[bluestateguy]

3. Somebody else can provide the troops

We can provide the airstrikes, though.

[giftedgirl77]

8. Pretty sure it's already in the works but I'm good with airstrikes.

[Psephos]

6. lolol?

What's wrong with you?

https://www.google.com/search?q=mustard+gas+injury&client=ms-android-sprint-us&espvd=1&biw=360&bih=517&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIxJSyu_anxwIVzIuSCh3angr1

[giftedgirl77]

7. It was bc

the US is in desperate need of a reason to go back hence the lol. No, not everything is a fainting couch moment.

[leftynyc]

11. You're LAUGHING at the use

of chemical weapons? WTF is wrong with you? Frankly, I find your post repulsive.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Not weapons of mass destruction?

Who is behind ISIS? They may be closer than you think - Mr. McCain why were you so friendly with them?

[thelordofhell]

4. So we left Mustard Gas behind in Iraq as well........

Thanks Haliburton......

[forest444]

5. And the likely source:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/revealed-britain-sold-nerve-gas-2242520

A lot ofd that probably ended up in ISIS hands, since much of what ISIS what by way of weapons they pilfered from the Syrian garrisons they took over.

Cameron, for his part, "didn't know that's what (the poison gas) was." Right.

[leftynyc]

12. Because people who use

beheadings as punishment and make women sex slaves aren't capable of this? We already knew Syria had such weapons and Syria is where they have set up shop. Maybe you want to give the benefit of the doubt to these disgusting vermin but I don't put anything past hem.

[Taitertots]

10. And out comes the WMD boogie man. Someone is itching for war with ISIS