Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) captured a warehouse with about 2,500 chemical missile engines and toxic chemicals on June 11. Iraqi Ambassador to the UN Mohamed Ali Alhakim sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and informed about the act, RIA Novosti reports.Materials stored at the facility in the Muthanna Province cannot be used to make chemical weapons. They were produced for the Iranian-Iraqi war of 1980-1988. U.S. media say that the facility was producing mustard gas and VX gas.
Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) captured a warehouse with about 2,500 chemical missile engines and toxic chemicals on June 11. Iraqi Ambassador to the UN Mohamed Ali Alhakim sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and informed about the act, RIA Novosti reports.
Materials stored at the facility in the Muthanna Province cannot be used to make chemical weapons. They were produced for the Iranian-Iraqi war of 1980-1988. U.S. media say that the facility was producing mustard gas and VX gas.
