ISIS (or the Islamic State or ISIL or IS or Daesh) has guns, bombs, soda can IEDs, brainwashed youth willing to end their lives (after shooting junk into their veins), lost cowgirls, dead poster boys, but they’ve yet (thankfully) to get their hands on chemical or biological weapons.

According to the Associated Press Thursday, that all could change very soon, as the global terrorist organization responsible for last week’s attacks in Paris are “aggressively pursuing development” of at least the chemical variation, and perhaps more. Confirmed by both Iraqi and United States intelligence, the extremists are in the process of establishing a branch of dedicated scientists from Iraq, Syria and the surrounding region (including ones from Saddam’s dissolved Military Industrialization Authority) in achieving the goal of engineering explosives packed with napalm-like substances. And even possibly, germs.

This from the AP:

On Thursday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that Islamic extremists might at some point use chemical or biological weapons.

“Terrorism hit France not because of what it is doing in Iraq and Syria … but for what it is,” Valls told the lower house of Parliament. “We know that there could also be a risk of chemical or biological weapons,” he added, though he did not talk of a specific threat.

U.S. intelligence officials don’t believe IS has the capability to develop sophisticated weapons like nerve gas that are most suited for a terrorist attack on a civilian target. So far the group has used mustard gas on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria.

But Iraqi officials expressed concern that the large safe haven the extremists control since overrunning parts of Iraq and Syria last year has left Iraqi authorities largely in the dark over the IS program.

“They now have complete freedom to select locations for their labs and production sites and have a wide range of experts, both civilians and military, to aid them,” a senior Iraqi intelligence official told The Associated Press.

Thus far, however, only traces of mustard gas (which they used against Kurdish fighters in both Iraq and Syria) and sulfur mustard have been discovered in their arsenal.