Saddam-Era General Supplying Chemical Weapons to Terrorists in Syria

The innocent people killed in the Khan al-Assal area of rural Aleppo in Northwestern Syria were the victims of the chemical weapons supplied to the terrorists by a Saddam-era General working under Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, sources revealed on Monday.

“The chemical weapons used in the attack on Khan al-Assal area had been prepared by former Iraqi Military Industries Brigadier General Adnan al-Dulaimi and supplied to terrorists of the Nusra Front in Aleppo through Turkey’s cooperation and via the town of Antakya,” an informed source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life, told FNA.

The source who has been an aide to Izzat Ibrahim – the most senior member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle who is still on the run after the apprehension and execution of Iraq’s former president Saddam Hussein – defected from the group a few months ago, but holds substantiating documents on Izzat Ibrahim’s plans.

Gen. Adnan al-Dulaimi was a key man in Saddam’s chemical weapons production projects.

“The 80mm mortar shells which landed in Khan al-Assal and killed dozens of people were armed with the latest product of Dulaimi’s hidden laboratories sent to the Nusra members for testing,” the source added.

“Also at his order, several former Iraqi military industries engineers trained terrorists in Syria on how to use these chemical weapons,” the source said, adding that all plans in this connection were prepared by Adnan al-Dulaimi and staged after the approval of Izzat Ibrahim.

The chemical mortar shells, which the source said were fired at Khan al-Assal from the Nusra-ruled Kafr Dael in Northwestern Aleppo, contained a chemical substance ,Sarin nerve gas. Adnan Dulaimi and his  colleagues in Iraq’s military industries mass-produced the same lethal gas and used it in vast areas against the Iranian troops in the 1980-1988 war and eventually killed thousands of people in the Kurdish town of Halabcheh with the same chemical agent.

UN human rights investigators announced just a few hours ago that they have testimony indicating ‘rebels’ in Syria have used Sarin gas. Interviews with victims and doctors have provided “strong, concrete suspicions” that ‘rebels’ used the deadly nerve agent, according to a lead investigator, who also stressed that there’s no evidence yet that the Syrian military used Sarin.

The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, Del Ponte said.

The chemical attack on Khan al-Assal came after a video footage posted on the internet late in January showed that the armed gangs in Syria possessed canisters containing chemical substances. 

The foreign-sponsored militants had earlier released footage in which rabbits were killed by inhaling poisonous gas.

M.D