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Thursday, July 10, 2014

IRAK INSURGENTS CAPTURE 40 K OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL - This comes on top of their getting their hands on chemical warfare material

(Reuters) - Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

Nearly 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University, Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the July 8 letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

Read more - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/09/us-iraq-security-nuclear-idUSKBN0FE2KT20140709

Via - http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/and-you-thought-iraq-didnt-have-any.html#links

 
ISIS seizes chemical weapons depot near Baghdad
 
They may have access to deadly sarin gas rockets.
 
The US says not to worry, that the materials are too old.  (The US was in charge for years, yet it failed to spot these materials. Embarrassing.)

Read more
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/isis-seizes-chemical-weapons-depot-baghdad-sarin-gas-rockets-article-1.1859934

Photo - Daily Mail - AFP

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655310/Marauding-ISIS-militia-beheading-way-Baghdad-How-jihadist-group-extreme-al-Qaeda-distanced-threatens-Iraq-three-years-America-left.html

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