America has captured ISIS scientist in charge of chemical weapons - Polidicks

[quote]The head of ISIS’s chemical weapons unit who once worked for Saddam Hussein has been apprehended by American authorities — and admitted the group has mustard gas, official sources told The Post. Sleiman Daoud al-Afari is being held at a temporary detention facility in Erbil, Iraq, where US military officials are grilling him about the Islamic State’s intentions to use deadly chemical and biological weapons, the sources said. Defense Department officials described al-Afari as a “significant” ISIS leader who was nabbed in February by elite American commandos. Since then, al-Afari has offered up crucial details about how the terror organization packed its artillery shells with powdered mustard gas, sources said.[/quote] [URL]http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/america-has-captured-isis-scientist-in-charge-of-chemical-weapons/[/URL]

Fuck these people. Milk him dry of info

Cool, but they'll just replace him.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902135]Cool, but they'll just replace him.[/QUOTE] yeah because guys like these are dime a dozen

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902135]Cool, but they'll just replace him.[/QUOTE] Let me put this into video game terms for you. Let's say you're playing a grand strategy game and you have one of your highest experienced generals commanding a unit. Now let's say that same general is killed by the enemy player. You still need a general to command this unit but you only have a finite amount of lower experienced generals in your pool to pull from. Yeah you can replace him but the likelihood is that the replacement won't be as experienced yet and now you have a smaller pool of generals to pull from in the future. Makes sense?

[QUOTE=Saturn V;49902149]yeah because guys like these are dime a dozen[/QUOTE] Uhh Iraq used tons of chem warfare over the last 30 years. They will find a replacement. Lots of Saddam's army is now associated with ISIS.

I wonder if he's being tortured.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902168]Uhh Iraq used tons of chem warfare over the last 30 years. They will find a replacement. Lots of Saddam's army is now associated with ISIS.[/QUOTE] You can't just say that though like there's a secret warehouse full of guys like his. They could have easily given up on Saddam's regime and booked it as soon as possible when America came around Iraq back in the early 2000s. Or dead. Bottom Line, unless you can say for certain, most we can guess is it's not easy to find and replace someone whose good with Chem weapons.

[QUOTE=Moronic;49902187]I wonder if he's being tortured.[/QUOTE] Oh jesus not this again.

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;49902190]You can't just say that though like there's a secret warehouse full of guys like his. They could have easily given up on Saddam's regime and booked it as soon as possible when America came around Iraq back in the early 2000s. Or dead. Bottom Line, unless you can say for certain, most we can guess is it's not easy to find and replace someone whose good with Chem weapons.[/QUOTE] Well no, but ISIS has tons of money and connections. They can refill the position, unfortunately. All I'm saying is everyone can be replaced.

Isn't mustard gas pretty easy to make/store? In comparison to say, Sarin.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902200]Well no, but ISIS has tons of money and connections. They can refill the position, unfortunately. All I'm saying is everyone can be replaced.[/QUOTE] You're really easy to say that ISIS is just gonna replace everyone we take out or kill, like we just can't be happy we got one of their high rankers, oh nooooooo no no no, just grab another expert from the big machine in the back, there's plenty. We could wipe out half of ISIS I bet you would say they would just grow them back from some magic crops or something.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902200]Well no, but ISIS has tons of money and connections. They can refill the position, unfortunately. All I'm saying is everyone can be replaced.[/QUOTE] How do you know all this? :s:

I hope he just talks, I'd respect him, fuck going through that shit its not worth it, it really isnt imo

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;49902190]You can't just say that though like there's a secret warehouse full of guys like his. They could have easily given up on Saddam's regime and booked it as soon as possible when America came around Iraq back in the early 2000s. Or dead. Bottom Line, unless you can say for certain, most we can guess is it's not easy to find and replace someone whose good with Chem weapons.[/QUOTE] Chemical weapons are stupid easy to make. The processes involved are fairly trivial. The materials required are cheap and quite common. It's quite a feat at all that humans decided to be civilized enough to disarm and destroy most of the global chemical weapon supply and set up regulatory bodies internationally to prevent the production of these materials. We've got [URL="http://willdcarpenter.com/"]this guy[/URL] to thank for a lot of that work.

Isn't it a bit dumb to use mustard gas when your own troops don't have any sort of chemical protection equipment...and the desert's shifting winds

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902135]Cool, but they'll just replace him.[/QUOTE] I think the most important thing here is that they've got information out of him.

[QUOTE=1legmidget;49902304]Chemical weapons are stupid easy to make. The processes involved are fairly trivial. The materials required are cheap and quite common. It's quite a feat at all that humans decided to be civilized enough to disarm and destroy most of the global chemical weapon supply and set up regulatory bodies internationally to prevent the production of these materials. We've got [URL="http://willdcarpenter.com/"]this guy[/URL] to thank for a lot of that work.[/QUOTE] It's not a mean feat, chemical weapons just aren't very good, they're either insanely lethal like sarin gas, or too unpredictable in their spread like mustard gas

[QUOTE=ThePanther;49902275]How do you know all this? :s:[/QUOTE] I read the news?

Being able to make harmful chemicals makes you a scientist? Where do I pickup my academic rank for Professor? It is good they captured him, might get some informations and block their supply lines. However he can sadly be replaced with a wiki-page, and they do have internet access.

[QUOTE=Sableye;49902330]It's not a mean feat, chemical weapons just aren't very good, they're either insanely lethal like sarin gas, or too unpredictable in their spread like mustard gas[/QUOTE] You really ought to look into the work done to achieve the level of disarmament we have now. The OPCW won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for their work. Early on most of the funding for the OPCW came from the private sector and a handful of individuals. Industry leaders like Will Carpenter spearheaded disarmament and regulatory oversight.

[QUOTE=1legmidget;49902304]Chemical weapons are stupid easy to make. The processes involved are fairly trivial. The materials required are cheap and quite common. It's quite a feat at all that humans decided to be civilized enough to disarm and destroy most of the global chemical weapon supply and set up regulatory bodies internationally to prevent the production of these materials. We've got [URL="http://willdcarpenter.com/"]this guy[/URL] to thank for a lot of that work.[/QUOTE] I think it's similar to the reason we haven't used nuclear weapons in warfare since their inception. They're effective, to a degree, but the human cost is almost unbearable.

[QUOTE=Nak;49902401]Being able to make harmful chemicals makes you a scientist? Where do I pickup my academic rank for Professor? It is good they captured him, might get some informations and block their supply lines. However he can sadly be replaced with a wiki-page, and they do have internet access.[/QUOTE] It's more like a wiki-page and plenty of expendable lives, but yea.

[QUOTE=Sableye;49902320]Isn't it a bit dumb to use mustard gas when your own troops don't have any sort of chemical protection equipment...and the desert's shifting winds[/QUOTE] Might be bad for warfare but that isn't all ISIS does. Terrorist attacks.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902135]Cool, but they'll just replace him.[/QUOTE] Such a stupid sentence. Yeah they can replace him but it's no guarantee his successor is as successful.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902135]Cool, but they'll just replace him.[/QUOTE] With someone less competent who ends up nerve gassing the probably terribly set up lab.

[QUOTE=Powerbrah;49904798]Such a stupid sentence. Yeah they can replace him but it's no guarantee his successor is as successful.[/QUOTE] You could then say that it will be an [I]un-successor[/I].

[QUOTE=Kylel999;49902111]Fuck these people. Milk him dry of info[/QUOTE] I think the CIA will just employ him

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49902342]I read the news?[/QUOTE] Clearly, the news is the most informative and conclusive in all of todays goings. Even tallys on known mad scientists specializing in chemical/biological warfare.