I'd say it's the Iranians. They were as guilty as Saddam at using chemical weapons.
I'm guessing that the anti-helicopter missiles came from Russia, though.
Toxic gas latest insurgent weapon - CNN
POSTED: 6:09 a.m. EST, February 22, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Deadly and debilitating chlorine gas has been added to the arsenal of weapons fueling the explosive insurgency in Iraq with chemical attacks leaving at least 12 dead and more than 200 hospitalized in the past week.
An Interior Ministry official told CNN Thursday that the toxic yellow-green gas was a main component in Wednesday's bomb attack near a hospital in southwestern Baghdad's Bayaa neighborhood.
The use of gas is a chilling echo of deadly strikes employed by the regime of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein against his enemies both in and outside Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/
As attacks against coalition targets continued, the U.S. military said that one of its helicopters reported to have had a "hard landing" on Wednesday, might have been brought down by enemy fire.
"The indications are now that it was brought down by small-arms fire and RPGs -- rocket-propelled grenades," Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said.
A message posted online by a group called the The Mujahedeen Army claimed responsibility for downing the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the claim or its source.
A portion of the statement, dated Wednesday, said, "With God's blessing, at 10 o'clock this morning, Sheik Al-Islam bin Taimiya Brigade of the Mujahedeen Army was able to down a Black Hawk helicopter that belongs to the crusader occupying forces in the Taji area, north of Baghdad."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/
Egyptian blogger sentenced to prison
By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.
Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University, an Islamic institution, had pleaded innocent to all charges, and human rights groups had called for his release.
Nabil, who used the blogger name Kareem Amer, had sharply criticized Al-Azhar on his Web log, calling it "the university of terrorism" and accusing it of suppressing free thought. He also often criticized Mubarak's regime on the blog.
In one post, he said Al-Azhar University "stuffs its students' brains and turns them into human beasts ... teaching them that there is not place for differences in this life."
He was a vocal critic of conservative Muslims and in other posts described Mubarak's regime as a "symbol of dictatorship."
The university threw him out last year and pressed prosecutors to put him on trial.
The judge issued the verdict in a brief, five-minute session in a court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. He sentenced Nabil to three years in prison for insulting Islam and inciting sedition and another year for insulting Mubarak. Nabil had faced a possible maximum sentence of up to nine years in prison.
Nabil, wearing a gray T-shirt and sitting in the defendants pen, gave no reaction and his face remained still as the verdict was read. He was immediately taken from the pen and put in a prison truck and did not comment to reporters.
Egypt arrested a number of bloggers last year, most of them for connections to Egypt's pro-democracy reform movement. Nabil was arrested in November, and while other bloggers were freed, Nabil was put on trial — a sign of the sensitivity of his writings on religion.
Hafiz Abou Saada, head of the Egyptian Human Rights Organization, described the verdict as "very tough"
"This is a strong message to all bloggers who are put under strong surveillance that the punishment will very strong," he told the Associated Press.
Two U.S. congressmen also expressed deep concern about the arrest of Nabil — who also goes by the blogger name of Kareem Amer — and called for the charges to be dropped.
"The Egyptian government's arrest of Mr. Amer simply for displeasure over writings on the personal Web log raises serious concern about the level of respect for freedoms in Egypt," Reps. Trent Franks (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., and Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., wrote to U.S. Ambassador Nabil Fahmy.
The Bush administration has not commented on Nabil's trial, despite its past criticism of the arrests of Egyptian rights activists.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_blogger;_ylt=AsdlAqAvzimLZPY_OekIZbYLewgF