Iraq, Syria and smuggling of chemical and biological weaponsnote

The US embassy in Baghdad is said to have asked the Iraqi Defence Ministry and the Kurdish-controlled Peshmerga Forces to cooperate together to prevent smuggling of chemical and biological weapons from Syria to Iraq. The following 366-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what about the Iraqi urgent requirements to fight cross-border smuggling of chemical and biological weapons and tells what about financing. [Briefly reproduced in Tactical Weekly (Issue No 20/16 – April 19, 2013)]