Posted on 09/17/2014 5:33:58 PM PDT by markomalley
At least 14 members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were killed Tuesday near Baghdad when a rocket whose warhead they were filling with chlorine gas exploded.
Iraqi security officials said seven more IS militants were injured in the incident, which occurred near the town of al-Dhuluiya, about 90 km north of Baghdad.
Al-Dhuluiya was also where four members of the Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen suffered symptoms of asphyxiation after inhaling chlorine gas released by two improvised explosive devices.
It was the first time that chlorine has been used as a weapon in Iraq, although it is not uncommon in neighbouring Syria, where the regime’s use of it has been denounced by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Meanwhile, Iraqi troops killed 18 jihadists and destroyed five of their vehicles in clashes at the Biji refinery, Iraq’s largest.
At the same time, Kurdish peshmerga troops regained control of three villages in Qara Teba, in the eastern Diyala province, which had been overrun by the IS. Three IS militants and four Kurdish soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
These clashes came a few hours after US warplanes launched their first bombing raids at IS positions near Baghdad since an international conference wrapped in Paris Monday after a number of world leaders pledged to defeat and destroy the IS.
Wonderful. They have battlefield experience with chemical weapons. Granted they effed up big time here, but they’ll learn from it.
IIRC chlorine gas was the very first chemical weapon used in WWI.
Apparently the Germans found it easy to make and deploy using 1915 technology.
Poetic Justice. Mat every one of get it.
Muzz terrorists not as smart as Germans.
Apparently, we need to see an IED gas attack in the US before we do anything.
Well to be fair, the Germans didn’t try to deliver it on a rocket.
They just brought it up to the front in containers and then pumped it out on a morning when the wind was blowing towards some Canadian trenches.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the drooling, blithering idiots down at the UN warned the U.S. today that if we try to beat up their ISIS pals, we better play by the Geneva Convention rules or else. FUUN!!! Those ISIS maggots don't care if we shove a gallon of water up each nostril. The only morons who whine about it are the fags and girly men down at the DNC, the Code Pinkies and the UN.
Didn’t obama say using weapons of mass destruction is crossing that “red line”? So what is he going to do now?
No virgins for them.
Bomb them back to the Stone Age (when Ted Cruz becomes president).
Harumph. Chlorine Gas. The Democrats would have us believe that there was no such thing in Iraq. Next thing, ISIS will have Mustard Gas or Sarin.
Yeah....those darn rebels weren’t the ones using chemical weapons in Syria, according to Obama.
I thought these guys were doctors and lawyers. You’d think they would know about formulation.
They have never learned the earth is round, so how are going to learn about chlorine gas?
“Didn’t obama say using weapons of mass destruction is crossing that “red line”? So what is he going to do now?”
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Yes that is what he said ( I Think), However since he didn’t actually SEE them do it no points are awarded, Have to play by the rules you know.
What? Well, first, check with Valerie Jarret for an okay......... then it is off to Congressional or Burning Tree!!
They managed to learn how to fly jumbo passenger jets for just long enough to slaughter over 3,000 innocent people not long ago.
Got any other stupid questions I can help you out with?
Sorry, it’s FORWARD to the stone age in this case.
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