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| IS using chlorine gas in Iraq, trying to develop Chem weapons |
| 2014-10-24 |
| Dizzy, vomiting and struggling to breathe, 11 Iraqi coppers were rushed to a government hospital 50 miles north of the capital last month. The diagnosis: poisoning by chlorine gas. The perpetrators, according to the officers: Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... krazed killers. The chlorine attack appears to be the first confirmed use of chemical weapons by the Islamic State on the battlefield. An Iraqi Defense Ministry official corroborated the events, and doctors said survivors' symptoms were consistent with chlorine poisoning. When I was in the Army, back in the Upper Mesozoic, "WMDs" consisted of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Since then we've let people who hate us screw with the English language to the point where a pipe bomb is described as a "weapon of mass destruction" and a chlorine plant is described as something (undefined) else. Therefore "there were no weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq; Bush lied, people died. Then some more of them did. Iraqi forces say two other crude chlorine attacks have occurred since the gunnies seized vast tracts of Iraqi territory this summer, but details on those incidents remain sketchy. The reported assaults all raise concerns that the Death Eaters are attempting to hone their chemical weapons capabilities as they push to control more ground. The presence of a large former Iraqi chemical weapons production plant in territory seized by the Islamic State has compounded those fears, although officials and chemical weapons experts say the 2,500 degraded rockets filled with nerve agents that remain there are unlikely to be fit for use. Weapons inspectors sealed them off with concrete in a bunker more than 20 years ago. |
| Posted by:frozen al |
| #5 UK General claims the ISIS/ISIL is dev both ChemWar + BioWar, in particular as IEDS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-24 20:32 |
| #4 Perhaps now the NYTs can discover that bad guys were trying to use chlorine to attack US troops in Iraq. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-24 19:17 |
| #3 The "professionalism" of the IS armed forces makes me think there are a LOT of Ba'athists from Saddam Hussein's reign working in that group. The comments about flying MiG aircraft, using tanks, etc., show the people in charge have quite a bit of military experience. This isn't a "rag-tag guerilla army" but some fairly well-trained troops in key positions. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-10-24 18:56 |
| #2 Syria started the use of Chemical weapons. B.O. failed to backup his red line; what did anybody expect? The lesson from WWII is that weakness invites attack. B.O. has managed to appear weak while being commander-in-chief of the largest most powerful military on the planet. As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon". |
| Posted by: Sninerong Hupinemble5552 2014-10-24 15:41 |
| #1 Moslems using chemical weapons on Moslems. Need surprise meter now. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-10-24 15:24 |