The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on 23rd January published an article about an interview with a scientist, a former key member of Islamic State’s chemical weapons programme and once an Iraqi government employee. It suggests that, despite the group’s declining fortunes, the lethal know-how he helped develop could still exist on computer disks or in the minds of his former terrorist colleagues. He says he didn’t join up with the Islamic State out of any sense of zeal for the group’s mission; he simply started showing up at his office once his direct deposit from the Iraqi government stopped appearing. Eventually, Islamic State administrators made it to his office and gave him a new assignment.
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