Iraqi officials say man is Sleiman Daoud al-Afari,who specialized in chemical and biological weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Military Industrialization AuthorityUS special forces captured a top chemical weapons engineer working for Islamic State during a raid final month in northern Iraq, officials said on Wednesday, and dealing a blow to the militants’ pursuit of what Pentagon officials call “weapons of mass destruction”.
Sleiman Daoud al-Afari was snatched close to a month ago in the town of Badoosh,north-west of the Isis stronghold of Mosul. A senior Iraqi official said he was an industrial engineer in former dictator Saddam Hussein’s military and had been a member of Isis throughout all its earlier incarnations.
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Source: theguardian.com