ISIL militants get hold of chlorine gas in north Iraq
The ISIL Takfiri militants have taken hold of large quantities of chlorine gas after they launched an attack against a major water treatment facility in the country’s northern province of Nineveh, an Iraqi source says.
The terrorists have taken the chemical agent from the provincial water department, and transferred it along with large quantities of mustard gas brought from Syria to one of their hideouts in the area, Iraq’s al-Sumaria satellite TV network quoted the source as saying on condition of anonymity.
The ISIL terrorists have also overrun an industrial area known as Kokjali located on the eastern side of the conflict-ridden city of Mosul, and are manufacturing rockets filled with chemical agents to use against Iraqi army forces, the source added.
The source further noted that that ISIL militants have tightened access to Kokjali, and threatened to fatally shoot anyone who attempts to come close to the area.
On December 24, 2014, ISIL militants attacked the city of Khan al-Baghdadi, situated about 180 kilometers (110 miles) northwest of the capital, Baghdad, with mortar shells loaded with chlorine gas.
The Takfiri militants killed at least 300 Iraqi soldiers in a chlorine gas attack on an army battalion in Anbar Province in September that year.
ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
The terrorists have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against all Iraqi communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have recently succeeded in driving the ISIL terrorists out of some areas in Iraq.
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