Iraqi forces foil gas attack in east, lawmaker says
Iran Press TV
Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:28PM GMT
Iraqi forces have foiled a poisonous gas attack by the ISIL terrorists in residential areas of an eastern province, an Iraqi lawmaker says.
Lawmaker Foral al-Tamimi said on Saturday that the army forces dismantled seven rockets filled with chlorine gas in the Diyala province.
The rockets had reportedly been prepared to be launched against civilian compounds in the city of Muqdadiyah.
In July, Iraq warned that the Takfiri terrorists have taken control of a huge former chemical weapons facility northwest of the capital Baghdad.
In a letter distributed at the UN on July 8, Iraq said remnants of 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin are kept in the facility along with other chemical warfare agents. On June 12, the site's surveillance system showed that some equipment had been looted.
The Takfiri terrorists currently control parts of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Izadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
The terrorist group has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.
NT/NN/AS
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