US responsible for Takfiris taking over chemical weapons

A political analyst holds the United States responsible for ISIL Takfiri terrorists taking control of chemical weapons in Iraq as the US should have already destroyed the arms, Press TV reports.

“I don’t understand why this hasn’t been done by the Americans and I do feel that the bulk of the responsibility falls clearly and squarely on the shoulders of the Americans who left such highly dangerous highly perilous weapons in Iraq, which should have been dismantled, ” Zayd al-Isa, a Middle East expert, told Press TV in a Wednesday interview.

Iraq has warned that the ISIL Takfiri terrorists have taken control of a huge former chemical weapons facility northwest of the capital Baghdad.

In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Iraq’s ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, said “armed terrorist groups” had penetrated the Muthanna site, northwest of the capital Baghdad, on June 11, and detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities.

“If there were indeed chemical weapons then the Americans have the duty and the responsibility to dismantle all of them to make sure that they cannot be used by any other operatives on the ground. It’s part and parcel of their responsibility to defuse them and dismantle them,” Isa urged.

The expert further warned that the Takfiri ISIL terrorists will employ the lethal weapons against innocent citizens in the Arab country.

“I do believe that if ISIL has such weapons it wouldn’t shy away or hesitate a minute from using them against their preferred and favorite targets, which is innocent civilians mainly Shias in the overwhelming Shia areas; and they wouldn’t even shy away from using them against hugely populated areas in Baghdad,” the expert warned.

The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL militants took control of Mosul in a lightning attack on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Tikrit was later taken back by the Iraqi army forces.