Coalition bombs IS chemical sites after snaring ‘emir’

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Dateline Washington. The Pentagon said that the coalition led by US has carried out the first air strikes on Islamic State's chemical weapons sites. Peter Cook, Pentagon press secretary, said the successful bombings were the culmination of detailed intelligence from Sulayman Dawud al-Bakkar a.k.a Abu Dawud. US special forces had captured Dawud in Iraq last month. Cook described Dawud as “ISIL’s emir of chemical and traditional weapons manufacturing.”

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