Morocco warns that ISIS could unleash chemical warfare on Europe

Morocco has cautioned Europe that ISIS terrorists have tried to create chemical weapons abroad and could launch attacks on Europe. This has been indicated by Morocco's head of counter terrorism. As per his claims, his unit has already nullified 25 ISIS plots in his country in the past year alone - one of these, in February, involved mustard gas.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 April 2016.

It seems the ISIS cell had smuggled in weapons from nearby Libya and had worked out planning of chemical attacks on four cities apart from a suicide bomber strike. The materials used in the plot were common items readily available in shops all over Britain, and even Europe.
In the opinion of the team of Moroccan Bureau Central d'Investigations Judiciares, the ISIS group that had been apprehended in February was trying to create mustard gas.
Incidentally, U.S. Special Forces had captured the chemical weapons chief of ISIS and he admitted that the group harbored plans of using mustard gas in future attacks. The capture of this operative was confirmed by an American official and he has admitted that interrogation had yielded 'good things'. He was captured by special forces deployed by the Pentagon ans is, at present, detained in Iraq.
ISIL has used chemical weapons on multiple occasions in Iraq and Syria and sources close to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has confirmed that mustard gas had been used in fighting in August in northern Iraq. Mustard gas had also been used in August 21 attack in Marea in Syria - of course, the perpetrator of the attacks is not named.
Mustard gas or 'sulfur mustard' can lead to respiratory distress, momentary blindness and painful blisters and had first been used by Germany in Belgium in 1917 and was banned by the UN in 1993.


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