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Monday, September 7, 2015
German intelligence has evidence IS used mustard gas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGermany’s foreign intelligence agency BND has collected evidence of mustard gas use by the Islamic State group.
German daily Bild reports that BND intelligence agents collected blood samples from Kurds who were injured in clashes with IS and quotes BND chief Gerhard Schindler as saying that the agency has “information that IS used mustard gas in northern Iraq.”
Schindler tells the paper that the mustard gas either came from old Iraqi stockpiles produced under Saddam Hussein’s rule or was manufactured by IS after it seized the University of Mosul.
A senior German intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, confirms the comments attributed to Schindler. He declines to confirm that the BND collected blood samples or discuss the agency’s methods.
—AP
The Times of Israel Community.