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2014-09-23 Iraq

ISIS kills 300 Iraqi soldiers by chlorine gas attack in Saqlawiyah

(IraqiNews.com) On Monday several Members of Parliament from Diwaniyah Province confirmed that ISIS killed over 300 soldiers using chlorine gas for the first time in Saqlawiyah, north of Fallujah.

Islamic Dawa party MP Ali al-Badri said, at a press conference at the parliament building in the presence of a number of deputies of Diwaniyah province and attended by IraqiNews.com that “the terrorist organization ISIS used chlorine gas for the first time in the region of Saqlawiyah after trapping more than 400 troops, resulting in the deaths of many of them due to suffocation while the terrorist gangs detonated car bombs within the brigade headquarters.”

Badri said, “We hold the full responsibility for the fate of the trapped soldiers to the Commanding General of the Armed Forces, Haider Abadi, and the security leaders, especially the Anbar Operations Chief, Lt. Gen. Rashid Flaih, because of the slow measures taken by the Air Force despite frequent appeals for rapid procedures to rescue the soldiers since several days ago.”

How about holding the ISIS responsible?

Badri added that the “Saqlawiyah crime is considered as the second Speicher Massacre,” stressing that “300 soldiers were killed in the attack.”

Posted by Steve White 2014-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Did the gas kill them, or did they die from falls, after tripping over all the "Obama red lines" drawn in the sands?

Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-09-23 00:58|| 2014-09-23 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 So the report should have read that Saddam's WMD stocks that slipped away to Syria are now in ISIS' possession.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-09-23 01:53|| 2014-09-23 01:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Chlorine gas is pretty easy to make and would be my terror weapon of choice.

I've held off quite a few years saying that as I didn't want to give the wrong people ideas, but it's in the mix now.

Posted by phil_b 2014-09-23 03:17|| 2014-09-23 03:17|| Front Page Top

#4 The Speicher Massacre was near Tikrit in mid June 2014. No chlorine gas was used, just bullets. The dead (between 1000 and 1700) were unarmed cadets who were departing the training base for leave from Iraqi army training. They were captured by ISIS and executed in mass.

Posted by lord garth 2014-09-23 07:32|| 2014-09-23 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Sure glad Assad is the only one using Chemical Warfare! /s

Posted by tipover 2014-09-23 20:37|| 2014-09-23 20:37|| Front Page Top

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