ISIS conducts chemical weapons tests on 'human guinea pigs,' documents reveal
Newly discovered documents have revealed that the Islamic State terrorist group has been conducting experiments on humans to test out the effects of chemical weapons before launching attacks on Western targets.
According to the documents obtained from the recaptured Mosul University in Iraq, ISIS spiked its prisoners' food and water with chemical compounds like thallium sulfate. One of the prisoners reportedly suffered fever, nausea, and swelling of the stomach and brain before dying a painful death 10 days after being fed with the compound.
ISIS has described thallium sulfate, which is a colorless, tasteless salt that can be dissolved in water, as an "ideal lethal poison." The group claimed that it possesses "an ample amount of the solution to fill demands."
Daily Caller reported that the terror group also used a nicotine compound on another prisoner, who died within hours.
"This is a horrifying throwback to the Nazis who would test nerve agents on live humans. During the Second World War, the Nazis conducted thousands of deadly experiments with mustard gas on prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin," chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told The Times, as reported by The Independent.
The report, which was verified by British and US forces, and was later obtained by The Times, also included recipes and guides for producing the toxic nicotine compound, which is said to have no antidote.
The ingredients for the poison can be found in cigarettes and vaping supplies, while thallium sulfate can be bought in many countries including the U.S.
Security forces have expressed their concern that ISIS may be plotting to contaminate Western food supplies with formulas that quickly dissolve in liquid.
The terror group is believed to have used Mosul University to develop chemical weapons in the last three years. The chemical program is said to have moved to the group's headquarters in Raqqa, Syria after it lost territory in Mosul.
It was recently reported that an ISIS cell is working on its chemical arsenal within the Euphrates River Valley. According to sources in the U.S. defense department, thousands of ISIS terrorists have converged in the area, with chemistry experts from across Iraq and Syria working at the group's production factory.
A U.S. defense official said that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi may be hiding somewhere in the area, along with other ISIS operatives and sympathizers, adding that it is now considered as the terror group's "de facto" capital.