According to Dolgov, who is a senior fellow at the Center for Arab Studies of the Moscow-based Institute of Oriental Studies, Daesh terrorists may well obtain weapons of mass destruction through the corrupt circles in the Middle East.
"These include chemical and biological weapons and even some components of nuclear weapons, which are not uncommon in some countries," Dolgov said, adding that developed nations' special services should do more to resolve the problem.
According to him, the main thing is to prevent the smuggling of chemical weapons' precursors, which could be transported to Daesh militants.
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He recalled that the militants had already reportedly used the home-made chemical weapons against the Syrian Army and civilians in Syria and that such weapons had been transported to Syrian via Turkish territory.
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Dolgov specifically pointed to the fact that producing chemical weapons would be an easy task for the jihadists.
"I do not think that terrorists will need some powerful scientific potential to create chemical weapons on a home-made basis. It is already there and it has already been used by the militants," he said.
Referring to the development of chemical weapons by militants, Hakim al-Zamili, head of the Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee, said in turn that the jihadists had already created a special unit to conduct research and experiments in this field, something that he claimed is being overseen by foreign experts.
