ISIS ‘Likely’ to Attempt Chlorine Gas Terrorist Attack in London Subway: Expert

A chemical weapons expert said ISIS could attempt a gas attack at a soccer match or on the subway in London.
ISIS ‘Likely’ to Attempt Chlorine Gas Terrorist Attack in London Subway: Expert
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Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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An expert on chemical warfare has said ISIS terrorists who are coming back to the U.K. could carry out a chlorine gas attack in the London Underground, in trains, or at soccer matches.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who was a former commanding officer at the Joint Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Regiment, noted there has been marked increase in chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria--the most since the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.

“It is very evident that ISIL are putting much time and effort into training its jihadis in the use of chlorine as a terror weapon and in particular in IEDs (improvised explosive devices),” he wrote for 2Paragraphs. He is referring to another name for ISIS.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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