Top ISIS Chemical Weapons Expert Killed in Coalition Airstrike
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iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Central Command said on Friday that a coalition airstrike near Mosul, Iraq last Saturday killed a top chemical weapons engineer for ISIS.
Centcom said Abu Malik was killed in an airstrike on Jan. 24 near Mosul.
Malik used to work at the chemical weapons facility that Saddam Hussein had at Muthanna, Iraq before joining Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2006, and then later joining ISIS.
Malik used his expertise to “pursue a chemical weapons capability” for ISIS, according to Centcom.
His death is expected to temporarily degrade and disrupt the ability of ISIS to potentially produce and use chemical weapons.
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