Evil ISIS chemical weapons chief captured in huge military raid

al-Afari, 50, heads ISIS’s newly established branch trying to develop chemical weapons, it is claimed.

He allegedly worked for Saddam Hussein’s Military Industrialisation Authority where he specialised in chemical and biological weapons.

It comes after the Obama administration launched a new strategy in December by dedicating a commando team to target ISIS leaders in covert operations in Iraq.

US airstrikes are targeting IS chemical weapons infrastructures, including laboratories and equipment, and special forces raids focus on chemical weapons experts.

Dan Kaszeta, a former US Army chemical officer and Department of Homeland Security expert, said: "More than a symbolic attack seems to me to be beyond the grasp of ISIS.

"Furthermore, the chemicals we are talking about are principally chlorine and sulphur mustard, both of which are actually quite poor weapons by modern standards.”

Last month a top military official confirmed ISIS has made chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria. 

James Clapper, director of US national intelligence, extremists used mustard gas in the Middle East.

There were also fears ISIS had obtained nerve gas via Turkey last year. 

Australian intelligence claimed ISIS have enough radioactive material to build a dirty bomb.

Earlier today it emerged twisted ISIS fighter Abu Omar al-Shishani, dubbed "the minister of war” was believed to have been killed in an airstrike.

(dailystar.co.uk)