http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/62...k-UK-nerve-gas-intelligence-officials-believe
Now jihadis want to GAS us: ISIS savages are plotting CHEMICAL WEAPONS attack on UK
ISLAMIC State is trying to acquire chemical weapons to use against the West, intelligence officials warned yesterday.
By JOHN INGHAM & MARK REYNOLDS
08:03, Fri, Nov 20, 2015 | UPDATED: 08:54, Fri, Nov 20, 2015
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ISIS are actively attempting to procure chemical weapons to use against the west, claim new reports
In an alarming move, jihadists are also said to be recruiting foreign experts to help them develop nerve gas.*
Security chiefs fear a repeat of the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 12 people in 1995.*
They are also worried that the extremists are plotting to poison our water supplies.*
We must not rule anything out. We know there could be a risk of chemical or biological weapons
Manuel Valls, French prime minister
The terror group is already suspected of using mustard gas and chlorine against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.*
Now it has set up a branch dedicated to acquiring weapons of mass destruction to use on the streets of Western cities.*
The threat was revealed yesterday by France’s prime minister Manuel Valls.*
He told French MPs: “We must not rule anything out. We know there could be a risk of chemical or biological weapons.”*
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A Japanese soldier cleans up in the aftermath of the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system
Colonel Richard Kemp, former head of the International Terrorism Intelligence Team at the Cabinet Office, said: “I think some of these terrorists recognise that while chemical weapons may or may not cause mass casualties, they would spread enormous panic.*
“If they could get hold of chemical weapons they would release them in enclosed places such as the London Underground.*
“Britain is well aware of this threat. Plans and procedures are in place to be able to decontaminate an area and treat casualties.”*
Meanwhile Iraq, which is trying to drive IS out of its country, said Syria had become a safe haven for the terrorists to set up weapons factories.*
Air strikes against Daesh
Thu, December 3, 2015
British, French, Russian and US forces launch air strikes against Daesh militants in Syria to combat the war on terror.
An Iraqi intelligence official said: “They now have complete freedom to select locations for their labs and production sites and have a wide range of experts, both civilians and military, to aid them.”*
Hakim Al Zamili, head of the Iraq parliament’s security and defence committee, said IS had hired experts from Chechnya and south-east Asia.*
The recruits include scientists who worked for Saddam Hussein. Mr Al Zamili said IS had recently moved its research laboratories from Iraq to “secured locations” inside Syria.*
“They are working very seriously to reach production of chemical weapons, particularly nerve gas,” he said.*
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ISIS have reportedly recruited weapons experts formerly of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime
IS last year overran Saddam’s old chemical weapons centre of Muthanna, which once held stocks of sarin.*
Retired US general Richard Zahner said it had also hired some of Saddam’s experts.*
“Even a few competent scientists and engineers, given the right motivation, can produce hazardous chemicals in limited quantities,” he said.*
IS revealed its determination to get chemical weapons in a report written in 2013 by a senior deputy to its leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.*
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Paris terror mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed by French police earlier this week
The author, Sameer Al Khalifawy, claimed there had been “significant progress”.*
Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Affairs, said: “This is certainly a concern. Chemical weapons are not hard to produce. A long-standing concern is the potential for terrorists to pollute the water supply.”*
Major Charles Heyman, editor of Armed Forces of the UK, said: “The French are right to be worried about it and to get properly organised to deal with it and so should we. This is a wake-up call to make sure our defences are in order.”
https://www.rt.com/news/326372-erdogan-erdem-chp-syria-sarin/
Erdogan calls MP ‘traitor’ for telling RT that ISIS got chemical weapons via Turkey
Published time: 18 Dec, 2015 03:16
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused opposition MP Eren Erdem of “betrayal.” Erdem told RT that Islamic State terrorists had obtained sarin gas supplies through Turkish territory – and that Ankara did nothing despite having all the evidence.
READ MORE: Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin
“There is a deputy in this country, buried so deep in a pit of betrayal, and to a party that claims to be as old as the republic saying during an interview to a foreign television channel that Turkey is selling chemical weapons to terrorists,” Erdogan told a crowd in the city of Konya.
The Turkish President also called the silence of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) concerning Erdem’s revelations “treason.”
“What is this party waiting for? Why are they silent? This is treason. How can you allege this country sells sarin gas to the terrorist state of Syria which is run by the murderer Assad?” Erdogan said, as cited by local media.
“Shame on those who still keep him in the party!” he added.
What Erdem actually revealed in an interview with RT on Monday were the details from a criminal case opened, and then abruptly closed, by the General Prosecutor’s Office in the Turkish city of Adana. His account alleges that Turkish authorities had acquired a great deal of evidence concerning sarin gas shipments to those Al-Qaeda militants in Syria that later became known globally as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), but did nothing to stop them.
“Chemical weapon materials were brought to Turkey and put together in ISIS camps in Syria, which was known as the Iraqi Al-Qaeda at that time,” Erdem told RT.
The indictment stated that the chemical weapon components had originally come from specific European countries and were to be seamlessly shipped via a specific route through Turkey to militant labs in Syria.
Despite the detailed evidence available, the 13 suspects arrested in raids in connection with the plot were released and the case was closed after merely a week. Erdem speculated that the Ghouta chemical weapons attack in Syria, which took place in August 2013 shortly after the case wrapped up, was most probably carried out by jihadists with the sarin gas smuggled through Turkey.
Furthermore, Erdem pointed at some evidence implicating the Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation and, allegedly, the Turkish Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag in the sarin smuggling business.
READ MORE: ‘Turkey using psychological warfare on anybody critical of the government’
RT was far from being the only platform Erdem used to attract attention to the issue. The interview took place a week after the MP had confronted the government about the smuggling case in the Turkish parliament.
Erdem was accused of treason following his revelations and Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office opened a case against him.
CHP Secretary-General Gursel Tekin has stressed that the party “stands behind” Erdem.
Meanwhile, Erdem said he has received death threats on social media, adding that the Ottoman Hearths paramilitary organization has published his address on Twitter to enable attacks on his house.
READ MORE: ‘Critical voices in Turkey facing intimidation’ (OP-ED)
Freelance journalist Merav Savir told RT that she tried to speak with Erdem on Thursday morning.
“He sounded afraid on the phone and told us that there were people outside his house here in Istanbul overnight, chanting death threats, calling him a traitor and waving Turkish flags,” Savir said.
She added that this is a common for opposition politicians, who are afraid of commenting on the ongoing investigation.
https://www.rt.com/news/326497-gaddafi-cousin-isis-sarin/
ISIS stole sarin gas from Libya stores & has already used it, Gaddafi’s cousin tells RT
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 08:18
Edited time: 19 Dec, 2015 13:58
© Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
Islamic State militants have managed to steal chemical weapons from underground storage facilities in Libya that were not properly guarded and the gas has already been used, a cousin of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview.
“ISIS has managed to find some of the secret underground storage facilities, still holding chemical weapons, hidden in the desert. Unfortunately, they weren’t properly guarded,” said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, a cousin of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader who was killed in 2011.
READ MORE: 'Europe will face a 9/11 within two years’ – Colonel Gaddafi’s cousin
Al-Dam, the stolen gas was then trafficked to the northern part of the country and sold.
“There are two known cases of this chemical agent being stolen. I know this from my sources in Tripoli. In the first case, seven drums of sarin were stolen, and in the second, I think it was five.”
And the destructive chemicals have already been used, said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, who formerly was one of Gaddafi’s most trusted security chiefs. He recalled that during the recent clashes near the Al-Quds Mosque in Tripoli, security forces discovered a vehicle loaded with sarin.
“Unfortunately, those who had driven this vehicle into the city didn’t understand the dangers of this nerve agent, and how risky it was to bring it into an urban area, let alone ever use it. I don’t want to spread panic, but that’s the reality. And the world knows this very well,”*he said.
And the destructive chemicals have already been used, said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, who formerly was one of Gaddafi’s most trusted security chiefs. He recalled that during the recent clashes near the Al-Quds Mosque in Tripoli, security forces discovered a vehicle loaded with sarin.
“Unfortunately, those who had driven this vehicle into the city didn’t understand the dangers of this nerve agent, and how risky it was to bring it into an urban area, let alone ever use it. I don’t want to spread panic, but that’s the reality. And the world knows this very well,”*he said.
Now jihadis want to GAS us: ISIS savages are plotting CHEMICAL WEAPONS attack on UK
ISLAMIC State is trying to acquire chemical weapons to use against the West, intelligence officials warned yesterday.
By JOHN INGHAM & MARK REYNOLDS
08:03, Fri, Nov 20, 2015 | UPDATED: 08:54, Fri, Nov 20, 2015
805
62
IG/GETTY
ISIS are actively attempting to procure chemical weapons to use against the west, claim new reports
In an alarming move, jihadists are also said to be recruiting foreign experts to help them develop nerve gas.*
Security chiefs fear a repeat of the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 12 people in 1995.*
They are also worried that the extremists are plotting to poison our water supplies.*
We must not rule anything out. We know there could be a risk of chemical or biological weapons
Manuel Valls, French prime minister
The terror group is already suspected of using mustard gas and chlorine against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.*
Now it has set up a branch dedicated to acquiring weapons of mass destruction to use on the streets of Western cities.*
The threat was revealed yesterday by France’s prime minister Manuel Valls.*
He told French MPs: “We must not rule anything out. We know there could be a risk of chemical or biological weapons.”*
GETTY
A Japanese soldier cleans up in the aftermath of the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system
Colonel Richard Kemp, former head of the International Terrorism Intelligence Team at the Cabinet Office, said: “I think some of these terrorists recognise that while chemical weapons may or may not cause mass casualties, they would spread enormous panic.*
“If they could get hold of chemical weapons they would release them in enclosed places such as the London Underground.*
“Britain is well aware of this threat. Plans and procedures are in place to be able to decontaminate an area and treat casualties.”*
Meanwhile Iraq, which is trying to drive IS out of its country, said Syria had become a safe haven for the terrorists to set up weapons factories.*
Air strikes against Daesh
Thu, December 3, 2015
British, French, Russian and US forces launch air strikes against Daesh militants in Syria to combat the war on terror.
An Iraqi intelligence official said: “They now have complete freedom to select locations for their labs and production sites and have a wide range of experts, both civilians and military, to aid them.”*
Hakim Al Zamili, head of the Iraq parliament’s security and defence committee, said IS had hired experts from Chechnya and south-east Asia.*
The recruits include scientists who worked for Saddam Hussein. Mr Al Zamili said IS had recently moved its research laboratories from Iraq to “secured locations” inside Syria.*
“They are working very seriously to reach production of chemical weapons, particularly nerve gas,” he said.*
GETTY
ISIS have reportedly recruited weapons experts formerly of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime
IS last year overran Saddam’s old chemical weapons centre of Muthanna, which once held stocks of sarin.*
Retired US general Richard Zahner said it had also hired some of Saddam’s experts.*
“Even a few competent scientists and engineers, given the right motivation, can produce hazardous chemicals in limited quantities,” he said.*
IS revealed its determination to get chemical weapons in a report written in 2013 by a senior deputy to its leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.*
REUTERS
Paris terror mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed by French police earlier this week
The author, Sameer Al Khalifawy, claimed there had been “significant progress”.*
Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Affairs, said: “This is certainly a concern. Chemical weapons are not hard to produce. A long-standing concern is the potential for terrorists to pollute the water supply.”*
Major Charles Heyman, editor of Armed Forces of the UK, said: “The French are right to be worried about it and to get properly organised to deal with it and so should we. This is a wake-up call to make sure our defences are in order.”
https://www.rt.com/news/326372-erdogan-erdem-chp-syria-sarin/
Erdogan calls MP ‘traitor’ for telling RT that ISIS got chemical weapons via Turkey
Published time: 18 Dec, 2015 03:16
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© Kayhan Ozer / Reuters; Eren Erdem / Facebook
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused opposition MP Eren Erdem of “betrayal.” Erdem told RT that Islamic State terrorists had obtained sarin gas supplies through Turkish territory – and that Ankara did nothing despite having all the evidence.
READ MORE: Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin
“There is a deputy in this country, buried so deep in a pit of betrayal, and to a party that claims to be as old as the republic saying during an interview to a foreign television channel that Turkey is selling chemical weapons to terrorists,” Erdogan told a crowd in the city of Konya.
The Turkish President also called the silence of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) concerning Erdem’s revelations “treason.”
“What is this party waiting for? Why are they silent? This is treason. How can you allege this country sells sarin gas to the terrorist state of Syria which is run by the murderer Assad?” Erdogan said, as cited by local media.
“Shame on those who still keep him in the party!” he added.
What Erdem actually revealed in an interview with RT on Monday were the details from a criminal case opened, and then abruptly closed, by the General Prosecutor’s Office in the Turkish city of Adana. His account alleges that Turkish authorities had acquired a great deal of evidence concerning sarin gas shipments to those Al-Qaeda militants in Syria that later became known globally as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), but did nothing to stop them.
“Chemical weapon materials were brought to Turkey and put together in ISIS camps in Syria, which was known as the Iraqi Al-Qaeda at that time,” Erdem told RT.
The indictment stated that the chemical weapon components had originally come from specific European countries and were to be seamlessly shipped via a specific route through Turkey to militant labs in Syria.
Despite the detailed evidence available, the 13 suspects arrested in raids in connection with the plot were released and the case was closed after merely a week. Erdem speculated that the Ghouta chemical weapons attack in Syria, which took place in August 2013 shortly after the case wrapped up, was most probably carried out by jihadists with the sarin gas smuggled through Turkey.
Furthermore, Erdem pointed at some evidence implicating the Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation and, allegedly, the Turkish Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag in the sarin smuggling business.
READ MORE: ‘Turkey using psychological warfare on anybody critical of the government’
RT was far from being the only platform Erdem used to attract attention to the issue. The interview took place a week after the MP had confronted the government about the smuggling case in the Turkish parliament.
Erdem was accused of treason following his revelations and Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office opened a case against him.
CHP Secretary-General Gursel Tekin has stressed that the party “stands behind” Erdem.
Meanwhile, Erdem said he has received death threats on social media, adding that the Ottoman Hearths paramilitary organization has published his address on Twitter to enable attacks on his house.
READ MORE: ‘Critical voices in Turkey facing intimidation’ (OP-ED)
Freelance journalist Merav Savir told RT that she tried to speak with Erdem on Thursday morning.
“He sounded afraid on the phone and told us that there were people outside his house here in Istanbul overnight, chanting death threats, calling him a traitor and waving Turkish flags,” Savir said.
She added that this is a common for opposition politicians, who are afraid of commenting on the ongoing investigation.
https://www.rt.com/news/326497-gaddafi-cousin-isis-sarin/
ISIS stole sarin gas from Libya stores & has already used it, Gaddafi’s cousin tells RT
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 08:18
Edited time: 19 Dec, 2015 13:58
© Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
Islamic State militants have managed to steal chemical weapons from underground storage facilities in Libya that were not properly guarded and the gas has already been used, a cousin of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview.
“ISIS has managed to find some of the secret underground storage facilities, still holding chemical weapons, hidden in the desert. Unfortunately, they weren’t properly guarded,” said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, a cousin of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader who was killed in 2011.
READ MORE: 'Europe will face a 9/11 within two years’ – Colonel Gaddafi’s cousin
Al-Dam, the stolen gas was then trafficked to the northern part of the country and sold.
“There are two known cases of this chemical agent being stolen. I know this from my sources in Tripoli. In the first case, seven drums of sarin were stolen, and in the second, I think it was five.”
And the destructive chemicals have already been used, said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, who formerly was one of Gaddafi’s most trusted security chiefs. He recalled that during the recent clashes near the Al-Quds Mosque in Tripoli, security forces discovered a vehicle loaded with sarin.
“Unfortunately, those who had driven this vehicle into the city didn’t understand the dangers of this nerve agent, and how risky it was to bring it into an urban area, let alone ever use it. I don’t want to spread panic, but that’s the reality. And the world knows this very well,”*he said.
And the destructive chemicals have already been used, said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, who formerly was one of Gaddafi’s most trusted security chiefs. He recalled that during the recent clashes near the Al-Quds Mosque in Tripoli, security forces discovered a vehicle loaded with sarin.
“Unfortunately, those who had driven this vehicle into the city didn’t understand the dangers of this nerve agent, and how risky it was to bring it into an urban area, let alone ever use it. I don’t want to spread panic, but that’s the reality. And the world knows this very well,”*he said.
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