The United Nations investigators conclude that the jihadist group “has manufactured rockets and chemical mortars, chemical munitions for rocket launchers, chemical missile heads at the time of its self-proclaimed” caliphate “. >
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United Nations experts have uncovered evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Islamic State jihadist organization (IS) at the time of its self -proclaimed “caliphate”, according to a report that was to be debated Monday, December 5 by the Security Council.
Unitad members, the team of investigators responsible for bringing IS to answer their crimes, claim to have collected “testimonial, digital and documentary evidence” relating to the employment of chemical weapons In Iraq under the “Caliphate” (2014-2019).
Experts conclude that IS “has manufactured and produced rockets and chemical mortars, chemical munitions for rocket launcher, chemical missile heads and explosive circumstance devices”. The survey was interested in particular “in the funding, supply and logistics of [IS] and its links with the elements of command, [and sought to know which were the alleged manufacturing sites, Production and use of weapons in Iraq, to obtain an additional information on manufactured agents (…) and the vectors employed “.
” Monetary services “
Experts in particular focused on an attack perpetrated against the town of Taza Khormatu on March 8, 2016. They claim to have collected “a large quantity of evidence”, in particular “of payrolls and elements of The correspondence “of the jihadist group. The team “examined evidence of family compensation for the” martyrdom “of their members killed while manipulating chemical weapons (…), and registers of the training provided (…) to high -ranking agents on The use of chemical substances as weapons, in particular chemical dispersion machines “. Among the products used were “aluminum phosphide, chlorine, bacteria clostridium botulinum, cyanide, nicotine, ricin and thallium sulfate”. The report underlines “the medical complications from which Taza Khormatu residents are currently suffering (chronic diseases, cancers and reproductive disorders, in particular)”.
The report also returns to other major crimes, including massive violence in mass, the persecution of the Christian community and other communities of Iraq, as well as the destruction of the country’s cultural and religious heritage.
Furthermore, concerning the financing of IS, Unitad “has considerably expanded its basis for evidence against those who, in the commercial networks of monetary services, provided logistical support to [the organization ] and took advantage of its violence campaigns “. According to her, “functional links were established between the networks of Mosul and Baghdad and the larger regional networks of the Middle East and the Gulf region”. Elements “demonstrate a narrow association” between the heads of the jihadist group “and certain monetary service companies, who have been accomplices of extortion systems [targeting] the local population”.
IS had established a “caliphate” in a vast region straddling Iraq and Syria in June 2014. An international coalition, led by the United States, had fought the organization until the Syrian Democratic Forces (FDS), dominated by the Kurds, seized in March 2019 of the ultimate Bastion of IS, Baghouz, in eastern Syria.