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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150821-19:09:00

we need to know where they are to go after them. so this is positive. this is significant. >> right. also, though, we've learned -- there's been so much talk about chemical weapons and isis. a senior u.s. official just confirming to us at cnn the traces of mustard agent have been found on isis mortars. i want to show you pictures of these apparent burns to the occurred de kurdish fighters. regardless, when you look, there they are. when you look at isis armed with chemical weapons or mustard agent, it appears that they may have mixed themselves. how does this change the u.s. strategy here? >> well, these individuals knows -- their terror knows no bounds. it's not just the beheadings, mustard gas, massive human rights violations. but at the same time, they are recruiting people. so they are dangerous. they are getting stronger.

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield-20150815-15:42:00

bli blistered skin and difficulty breathing kurdish commanders feared the worse isis had attacked them with chemical weapons one of two attacks this week under investigation. >> translator: these are traces of the weapons. almost 45 rounds in 40 minutes. >> reporter: the u.s. military will now test samples from the patients and weapons to determine if they included mustard gas. a horribly powerful chemical agent that the u.s. now believes isis has obtained. multiple u.s. officials tell cnn the u.s. has already determined that isis fighters used a mustard agent during a separate attack weeks ago inside syria. >> this would be a new and worrying report if it's accurate. i have no doubt that if isis could get their hands on this stuff, they two use it. no level of violence is -- is too great for this group. they glorify in the terror that they create. >> reporter: u.s. officials say it is possible the more recent attacks used chlorine, a less serious but still horrible

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield-20150815-15:43:00

chemical agent that isis has used before in battle or precursor chemicals the building blocks of mustard gas. some commanders downplay the battlefield effect, but such we weapons can spark a new level of fear for kurdish forces already locked in a stalemate with isis. >> their m.o. is basically strike fear into the hearts of everybody, no matter what the tactic or technique is. >> reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined where or how isis obtained a mustard agent. it is possible they overran stockpiles not destroyed under the 2014 agreement to rid syria of chemical weapons. it's also possible u.s. officials say that isis has developed a limited ability to manufacture them crudely on its own. regardless, the introduction of chemical weapons into the war with isis presents the u.s. and its allies with a new and difficult challenge. >> i think it's very important for us to send a signal not only to the kurds but to isis as well, that we are going to support the kurds in any way

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield-20150815-15:41:00

all right. u.s. officials say isis now has chemical weapons capability. multiple u.s. intelligence and military officials tell cnn tests confirm the terrorist group has used a mustard agent in the field. cnn national security correspondent jim sciutto has been digging in to this story and has this report. >> fred, the u.s. test results confirm that isis used a mustard agent, a serious form of chemical weapons, in an attack in syria two weeks ago. the u.s. now investigating two further attacks just in the last few days against kurdish forces in northern iraq. a muls tarred agent not confirmed in those attacks but possible use of chlorine. either way the u.s. does believe that isis has mustard agents in its possessions. it has used them on the battlefield. it is a serious escalation in the war there. >> reporter: when kurdish soldiers arrived at this nornl iraqi hospital this week with

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CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow-20150815-21:39:00

u.s. government officials this weekend convinced without a doubt that isis fighters used mustard agent as a weapon in an attack in syria. they're looking very closely into the aftermath of this isis attack also in iraq where it is suspected mustard agent was also used. the next step, checking a possible link between chemical weapons and the syrian government. that could take the war on terror to a new level. here's pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: the patients came to this northern iraqi hospital with blistered skin and respiratory distress. the kurds say isis fired mortars at them containing a chemical agent. >> translator: 38 rounds exploded, seven did not. >> reporter: the u.s. is investigating and will test samples to find out if it was mustard agent, a chemical weapon

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CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow-20150815-21:42:00

>> kim dozier and bob baer are with us to talk about how significant this is. kim, you were reminded in that barbara starr piece that president obama, not that long ago, threatened a u.s. strike on syria if the assad regime used chemical weapons. ultimately we didn't see that strike. but if there is a confirmed link here, does that cross the line for the obama administration? >> with the mustard agent, the implication is that it was in some stockpile that got overrun and isis got ahold of it without any cooperation with the assad regime. there is another aspect to this that there are repeated claims by human rights organizations and syrian rebel groups that the assad regime is using chlorine. chlorine wasn't part of the deal brokered with russia and the u.s. to get rid of its chemical weapons. it's illegal under international

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CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow-20150815-21:41:00

their ability to fight. >> reporter: the question now, from where could isis have obtained the mustard agent? all the weapons from saddam hussein in iraq, a secret stockpile from syrian president bashar al assad that was somehow not destroyed in 2014 under an international agreement or did isis manufacture the agent on its own? president obama once threatened military action if the syrian regime used chemical weapons. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >> reporter: now that it's isis, what will the obama administration do. >> i think it's very important for us to send a signal not only to the kurds but to isis as well that we are going to support the kurds in any way that we conceivably can. >> reporter: barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon.

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New Day Saturday-20150815-11:46:00

the mustard agent? old weapons from saddam hussein in iraq? a secret stockpile from syrian pressure al assad was that was somehow not destroyed in 2014 under an international agreement? or did isis manufacture the agent on its own? president obama once threatened military action if the syrian regime used chemical weapons. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >> reporter: now that it's isis, what will the obama administration do? >> i think it's very important for us to send a signal, not only to the kurds, but to isis as well, that we are going to support the kurds in any way that we conceivably can. >> reporter: barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. this week, connecticut reversed its death penalty law. now two men convicted of killing a family, have had their lives

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New Day Saturday-20150815-10:15:00

strike fear to everybody, no matter what the tactic or the technique is. >> reporter: the u.s. has not determined where or how isis obtained a mustard agent but there suspicion they overran stockpiles under the 2014 to rid syria of chemical weapons and possible that u.s. officials say isis has an ability to manufacture them crudely on their own. regardless, the introduction of chemical weapons into the war against isis presents the u.s. and its allies with a new and difficult challenge. >> i think it's very important for us to send a signal not only to the kurds and isis well we will are going to support the kurds in any way we conceivably can. >> reporter: among the challenges for the u.s. now, the kurds very likely to ask for u.s. help. they have already been dissatisfied with the weapons that the u.s. has sent them, the speed with which those weapons have come and likely to ask for help now in the face of chemical

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New Day Saturday-20150815-10:14:00

rounds in 40 minutes. >> reporter: the u.s. minutes will test samples from the patients and weapons to determine if they included mustard gas, a horribly powerful chemical agent that the u.s. now believes isis has obtained. multiple u.s. officials telling cnn the u.s. has already determined that isis fighters used a mustard agent during a separate attack weeks ago inside syria. >> this would be a new and worrying report, if it's accurate. i have no doubt that if isis could get their hands on this stuff, they would use it. no level of violence is too great for this group. they glorify in the terror that it creates. >> reporter: u.s. officials say it is possible the more recent attacks used chlorine, a less serious, but still horrible chemical agent than isis has used before in battle or possibly precursor chemicals the building blocks of mustard gas. some commanders downplay the effect of chemical weapons but such weapons can spark a new level of fear for kurdish forces already locked in a stalemate with isis. >> their m.o. is basically

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