Iraq

A top US intelligence chief has confirmed that ISIS have developed and used chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria, saying that its the first such attack by the group in over 20 years. The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirming that mustard gas has been used by ISIS militants. Foxnews.com reports: He did not elaborate on where and when the chemical attacks occurred, though there has been mounting evidence the terror group was experimenting with chemical weapons.

Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

A pipeline for gas used to generate 50% of the electricity in Iraq’a Kurdistan region was blown up on Friday, knocking out power and leaving many without electricity.  The explosion hit the pipeline in the Qader Karam district of Kirkuk, as a result of two homemade bombs being detonated, according to local police. “The gas pipeline that stretches to Erbil was blown up near the sub-district of Shwan last night,” the Kurdish Regional Government’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. Alarabiya.net reports: It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.

Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com,

I haven’t had this much fun in years – of course I’m talking about the US presidential election season, with The Donald taking on all comers, and winning (at least so far), and Bernie Sanders burning up the self-satisfied mandarins of the Democratic party Establishment.

What’s great about this spectacle – and one must view it as a spectacle in order to gain maximum enjoyment from it – is that, as none other than Rush Limbaugh points out:

A bombshell admission from a leaked classified Pentagon report proves that the U.S. government knowingly lied about claims that Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, in order to justify invading Iraq in 2003.  George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld carried out the globalist agenda of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which required America to go to war in Iraq, using fear propaganda on the public about non-existent WMDs.