AhlulBayt News Agency - The ISIS organization's new method of research in chemical weapons has taken a horrible trend as it has started testing homemade chlorine and mustard gas on prisoners in densely populated areas of Mosul.
The extremist organization has been reported to have set up laboratories in residential neighborhoods inside Mosul to avoid being targeted by the coalition airstrikes.
IS has a special department for chemical weapons research consisting of Iraqi scientists who worked in chemical weapons programs during Saddam Hussein's regim, as well as foreign experts.
The head of the IS chemical weapons research department, Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, was previously captured during a raid by the US special forces outside Mosul, and he is now revealing intelligence on IS's chemical weapons.
Al-Afari has now been replaced by Abu Shaima, an Iraqi doctor who worked at the University of Baghdad during Baath regime.
To protect them against the coalition's airstrikes, Shaima has moved the chemical operations away from its main laboratories at the universities of Mosul and Tel Afar, into the residential areas.
Mohandseen, a Christian neighborhood in Mosul currently controlled by the IS militants, has several houses used by the extremists to conduct deadly chemical weapons experiments.
IS is now carrying out experiments on prisoners in Mosul, to test the toxicity of the chemical weapons.
The extremists have seized large quantities of industrial chlorine in Iraq and Syria and they reportedly have experts to make mustard gas.
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