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Iraqi soldiers from Peoples Mobilization Forces (PMF) seen inside the liberated Tal Afar military airport in Tal Afar city
Iraqi soldiers from Peoples Mobilization Forces (PMF) seen inside the liberated Tal Afar military airport in Tal Afar city
This week the Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a London-based organization partly funded by the European Union, published a 200-page report that summarizes three years of work done by its field teams in Iraq. CAR experts were documenting the weapons Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) used on battlefields and how exactly it acquired them. In a story published by Wired, writer Brian Castner, a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer and veteran of the Iraq War, recounts his experience of following CAR field expert Damien Spleeters as he gathered evidence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar.
CAR field research is about finding weapons and weapon components, documenting markings and tracing the weapons back to their country of origin and origin through tell-tale signs like particular shades of paint. Serial numbers allowed the group to confirm numerous cases in which weapons produced by EU members like Romania and Bulgaria, and purchased by the US and Saudi Arabia, ended up in the hands of IS.
Comment: The residents certainly have cause for alarm - the US government has no qualms about using unsuspecting populations for medical experimentation:
- Pentagon's guinea pigs: Veterans suffering debilitating health conditions demand answers about biological and chemical weapons testing
- America's history of chemical weapons 'experiments' against its own people: Over 4,000 radiation experiments killed or poisoned hundreds of thousands of citizens
- Clouds of secrecy: Over and over again, the military has conducted dangerous biowarfare experiments on Americans, without their knowledge
- Pesticide or genocide? Human experimentation on U.S. citizens
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