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Blasts in the Night, a Smell, and a Flood of Syrian Victims (Excruciating Details of Victims)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/world/middleeast/blasts-in-the-night-a-smell-and-a-flood-of-syrian-victims.html?hp ^ | August 27, 2013 | BEN HUBBARD, MARK MAZZETTI and MARK LANDLER

Posted on 08/27/2013 12:23:45 PM PDT by lbryce

Thousands of sick and dying Syrians had flooded the hospitals in the Damascus suburbs before dawn, hours after the first rockets landed, their bodies convulsing and mouths foaming. Their vision was blurry and many could not breathe.

Overwhelmed doctors worked frantically, jabbing their patients with injections of their only antidote, atropine, hoping to beat back the assault on the nervous system waged by suspected chemical agents. In just a few hours, as the patients poured in, the atropine ran out.

To avoid contamination, medics stripped new arrivals down to their underwear and doused them with water before taking them inside.

New patients kept coming. One doctor from the town of Kafr Batna likened the scene to a horror movie, with cars bringing in entire families — fathers, mothers and children — all of them dead.

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To: lbryce

Here we go again - the same idiots who engineered another Islamic State - Bosnia - in Europe when we should have been helping the Serbs exterminate the bastards.

This crap goes on throughout the Islamic world every day. Its how they live.

Get over it.

Idiots at the Times.


41 posted on 08/28/2013 9:02:31 AM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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