Islamic State 'have limitless amount of chemical weapons'
The so-called Islamic State has repeatedly shown its ability to strike well outside the territory it controls.
An attack on an industrial plant near Baghdad yesterday was spectacular and deadly.
But it is their propensity to use chemical weapons that has caused most alarm among those fighting them.
For the Kurds the spectre of gas attacks is especially potent – after thousands were gassed by Saddam Hussein in Halabja in 1988.
Now the Kurds are facing a constant barrage of missiles – wondering which ones contain more than just explosives.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is an expert of chemical weapons and works for a company that makes gas masks.
He has just returned from Iraq, handing out masks and training the Kurdish fighters in how to use them.
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