A laptop found in the northern region of Idlib in Syria raises concerns among intelligence officials in the Middle East reported the site Foreign Policy. According to the report, the computer was found in the hands of a commander of a moderate rebel organization in Syria, and contains comprehensive guidance for making biological weapons for an “attack that will shock the world.”
Is the extremist terrorist organization ISIS planning to carry out a biological attack? The laptop belonging to a member of the organization was found in Northern Syria by one of the commanders of the rebels in the country, the Foreign Policy website reported. According to the report, the computer contains a lot of information, which included instructions for making weapons of mass destruction.
According to the article on Foreign Policy, the computer was found last January on an ISIS base in Idlib, near the border with Turkey. “I took the computer with me but I had no idea what was in it or if it even worked,” said the person who found the computer – one of the commanders of the more moderate Syrian rebel groups, identified as Abu Ali.
The computer worked without problem and no password was required for its operation, but first it seemed to him that all of the folders were empty. However, in a hidden folder that has 146 gigabytes of material, including information on ISIS members, articles and guides in three languages, ideological speeches, videos, instructions for Jihad fighters around the world, and most worrying – an assembly guide along with instructions for making bombs and biological weapons, under the title – “preparation for the attack that will shake the world.”
It had been made public that the laptop belonged to an operative named Mohammad S., who went from Tunisia to Syria and joined ISIS after studying chemistry and physics in his country. In the document, which included 19-pages in Arabic, there were instructions for the development of biological weapons by the use of infected animals diseases – such as spreading plague. “The development and production of these weapons is cheap and can bring down hordes of people,” the document states.
The guide lists, among other things, safety mechanisms in handling weapons and tests that were used to make weapons before. “When bacteria is introduced into the body of a little mouse, the symptoms will begin to appear after 24 hours,” the report said. Among the many provisions was also Fatwa (Islamic religious ruling), that permits the use of weapons of mass destruction. Fatwa was signed Saudi cleric Nasir al Fahd, currently imprisoned in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh.
ISIS now controls the University of Mosul in Iraq, several laboratories in Syria. The West and persecuted minorities in Syria and Iraq are very afraid of the dangerous mixture of a murderous ideology and weapons of mass destruction. “The information is on the computer,” reads the Foreign Policy website, “they will not leave behind a book about their deadly ambitions.”
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By Gal Cohen/ www.jerusalemonline.com
