The US military has bombed an Islamic State facility in Iraq that a
senior general calls a "significant chemical threat" to Iraqi
civilians.
Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian told
reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday that the target was an Islamic State
headquarters also used to produce lethal chemicals, possibly including chlorine
and mustard gas.
Harrigian commands the Air Force element of US
Central Command in the Persian Gulf.
The general described the air strike as a large
operation, destroying more than 50 targets at the site with a variety of US
warplanes, including B-52 bombers.
He said the site was formerly a pharmaceutical
plant.
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