Writing on the Wall: 'Daesh to Face No Problems Creating Chemical Weapons'

Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) militants are currently engaged in developing chemical weapons, necessitating that we stop the jihadists from obtaining the ingredients they would need to launch an attack, according to Boris Dolgov, a Russian expert on the Middle East.

In an interview with Sputnik, Boris Dolgov, a Russian Middle East political analyst, warned about the potential smuggling of chemical weapons' precursors which he said could be obtained by Daesh terrorists who are already engaged in the development of such weapons.

According to Dolgov, who is a senior fellow at the Center for Arab Studies of the Moscow-based Institute of Oriental Studies, Daesh terrorists may well obtain weapons of mass destruction through the corrupt circles in the Middle East.

"These include chemical and biological weapons and even some components of nuclear weapons, which are not uncommon in some countries," Dolgov said, adding that developed nations' special services should do more to resolve the problem.

According to him, the main thing is to prevent the smuggling of chemical weapons' precursors, which could be transported to Daesh militants.

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He recalled that the militants had already reportedly used the home-made chemical weapons against the Syrian Army and civilians in Syria and that such weapons had been transported to Syrian via Turkish territory.

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Dolgov specifically pointed to the fact that producing chemical weapons would be an easy task for the jihadists.

"I do not think that terrorists will need some powerful scientific potential to create chemical weapons on a home-made basis. It is already there and it has already been used by the militants," he said.

In an interview with Czech television earlier this day, Syrian President Bashar Assad said that Saudi Arabia and Qatar had contributed to money and arms being supplied to Daesh militants through Turkish soil.

Referring to the development of chemical weapons by militants,  Hakim al-Zamili, head of the Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee, said in turn that the jihadists had already created a special unit to conduct research and experiments in this field, something that he claimed is being overseen by foreign experts.