http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2793731/will-rusting-chemical-weapons-cache-ignored-americans-fall-isis-hands-iraq-claims-2-500-rockets-containing-deadly-sarin-hands-terrorists.htmlHas ISIS looted chemical weapons from former Iraqi nerve agent factory that US failed to destroy? UN told 2,500 rockets containing deadly Sarin are in the hands of the jihadists
Isis controls a former chemical weapons factory near Baghdad, it's claimed
The Muthanna State Establishment made nerve agents in the 80s and 90s
Iraq wrote to the UN this summer to say that it had lost control of the depot
Officials said that armed terrorist groups had taken over the complex
It comes after it was revealed the US found 5,000 chemical weapons in Iraq
By Ted Thornhill for MailOnline
Published: 04:38 EST, 15 October 2014 | Updated: 07:57 EST, 15 October 2014
ISIS controls a vast compound in Iraq containing 2,500 rusting chemical weapons rockets, according to the Iraqi government.
The site was bombed by the US during the 1991 Gulf War, but the munitions there were only partially destroyed, according to the UN - then left to Iraq to take care of.
However, Iraqi officials wrote to the United Nations this summer claiming that abandoned weapons containing the lethal nerve agent Sarin are still in the ruins of the Muthanna State Establishment, which made chemical weapons in the 1980s and early 1990s, and that this is now in the hands of the violent jihadists.
They warned that they had watched equipment there being looted on CCTV.
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