(VOA News) Jeff Seldin - U.S. military officials fully expect IS militants to unleash their chemical weapons arsenal as Iraqi and Kurdish forces advance on the caliphate's Iraqi capital in Mosul. "This is real. They're dead set on it," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said Monday, adding that the military has documented dozens of instances in which IS has used or tried to used chemical weapons. The Pentagon says all U.S. personnel deployed to the region have been given equipment to protect themselves from possible chemical weapons attacks. It has also distributed thousands of gas masks to Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga.
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