BIG TROUBLE – 9:55 A.M. ET:  This is the kind of news that keeps security people up at night, unless they work for Barack Obama.  From the New York Post:

Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a diplomat said, based on tests by the global chemical weapons watchdog.

A source at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed that laboratory tests had come back positive for the sulfur mustard, after around 35 Kurdish troops were sickened on the battlefield last August.

The OPCW will not identify who used the chemical agent. But the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the findings have not yet been released, said the result confirmed that chemical weapons had been used by Islamic State fighters.

The samples were taken after the soldiers became ill during fighting against Islamic State militants southwest of Erbil, capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region.

And...

Experts believe that the sulfur mustard either originated from an undeclared Syrian chemical stockpile, or that militants have gained the basic know how to develop and conduct a crude chemical attack with rockets or mortars.

Iraq’s chemical arsenal was mainly destroyed in the Saddam era, although U.S. troops encountered some old Saddam-era chemical munitions during the 2003-2011 U.S. occupation.

COMMENT:  Oh, those old WMD stories.  Nothing to see, nothing to see.  In fact, there's plenty to see.  And plenty to fear.  Chemical weapons are moved very easily.  A chemical compound can be moved in a small can or jar. 

We have accepted the "narrative" that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  I'm not so sure that narrative was accurate.  There may have been some.  Or some may have been taken to Syria before the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.  Indeed, there were well-sourced reports of long convoys going into Syria just before the war. 

Whatever the truth, our worst enemies probably have them.  Obama will ignore the stories, and the well-trained Obama press will suppress them.  It's disgraceful.

February 15,  2016