NYT Istanbul: The Islamic State uses terror to force obedience and frighten enemies. It has seized territory, destroyed antiquities, slaughtered minorities, forced women into sexual slavery and turned children into killers.
But its officials are apparently resistant to bribes, and in that way, at least, it has outdone the corrupt Syrian and Iraqi governments it routed, residents and experts say.
It was reported last month and confirmed that ISIS hired chemical experts.
Islamic State recruiting chemical weapons experts, Australia’s foreign minister says
In January of 2015, an ISIS chemical expert was killed in an Iraq airstrike.
So, where is that impassioned speech by John Kerry? Where is the United Nations? Where is the White House redline? Where is the UK?
crickets….
NYT’s: ISIS Has Fired Chemical Mortar Shells, Evidence Indicates
It may be real apparent that even the military and Washington DC has not measured all the consequences of the Joint Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran.
Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter is on a 3 country tour in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. War gaming on some plan?
This cannot end well.
The IDF is seeking government commitment to a multi-year defense spending plan – a commitment that has been absent for the past several years – as it prepares to deal with the possibility of a covert Iranian attempt to break through to nuclear weapons production, a senior defense source said on Sunday.