IRAQ: ISIS SEIZES SADDAM WEAPONS STOCKPILE AS REGIONAL ACTORS COMMENT ON US INVOLVEMENT
ISIS’s Sunni Islamist militants have successfully overtaken what was once former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s chemical-weapons production site. US government officials believe that the site contains a decent quantity of old weapons. However, most are unsure if they can be used with any effect.
The Iraq study group 2004 report on the weapons site said: "Two wars, sanctions and Unscom oversight reduced Iraqi's premier production facility to a stockpile of old damaged and contaminated chemical munitions (sealed in bunkers), a wasteland full of destroyed chemical munitions, razed structures, and unusable war-ravaged facilities,"
Meanwhile, some called for a shakeup within the ranks of the Iraqi governing structure.
Iraq’s chief Shia spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sistani, called for a new “effective” government Friday, which some see as calling upon Prime Minister Maliki to resign.
So, what? That has nothing to do with me or any threat to America. So, then, therefore, it is of no consequence to us.
ReplyDeleteStill no reason to go to Iraq for anything.
Impossible since those weapons are/were non-existent.
ReplyDeleteI. Don't. Care.
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