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Islamic State said to use chemical weapons on Kurds
Times of Israel ^
| October 13, 2014, 9:04 pm
Posted on 10/13/2014 12:08:10 PM PDT by Dave346
Kurdish health officials and activists in the besieged town of Kobani claim to possess evidence that Islamic State operatives have used chemical agents as a weapon on at least one occasion during clashes with Kurdish fighters along Syrias northern border.
According to several reports, which were compiled by the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centers Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, the use of the toxins by the Islamic State took place on July 12 in the village of Avdiko, 10 days after the rogue Jihadi group launched an offensive on the Kobani enclave, near the Turkish border.
Nisan Ahmed, the health minister of the Kurdish authority in Kobani, said that in a number of photographs showing Kurdish fighters who had been killed during the battle in Avdiko, no visible wounds or external bleeding could be seen on the bodies, whereas severe burns and white spots were clearly visible. Ahmed asserted that the (graphic) photos, which were later obtained and posted online by the Middle East Review of International Affairs journal, suggest the fighters had died as a result of exposure to chemical toxins.
While it still remains unclear whether chemical agents were actually used by the Islamic State, Israeli experts who examined the photographs said the wounds, which included severe peeling of the skin and heavy blistering, suggested the Kurdish fighters had been exposed to mustard gas, the GLORIA Center reported. The experts added, however, that more data was needed to form a definitive conclusion.
In early July, shortly before the attack on Kobani, officials in Iraq reported that the Islamic State had taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin, or their remnants, were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gas; iran; iraq; isis; islamicstate; kobane; kobani; kurdistan; kurds; lebanon; syria; turkey; wmds
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:08:10 PM PDT
by
Dave346
To: Dave346
Where the hell did they get chemical weapons?? Don’t answer that, rhetorical question..
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:10:18 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe..)
To: cardinal4
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:12:03 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
To: cardinal4
Is Obama going to draw a red line on their use of chemical weapons? Then say that its not his red line but the worlds red line???
To: Dave346
...officials in Iraq reported that the Islamic State had taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin, or their remnants, were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.
Silly reporters. There were no WMDs in Iraq, remember? Bush lied, the intel was fake, Valerie Plame, etc. So this can't possibly be true.
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:15:46 PM PDT
by
caligatrux
(...some animals are more equal than others.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:17:39 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe..)
To: caligatrux
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:17:48 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
To: Dave346
I'm just relieved that they didn't make anyone wear underpants on their head.
That would have been an international outrage.
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:27:15 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Thank you for self-censoring.)
To: Dave346
That would make Turkey and Moslem Impostor Obola happy.
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:33:35 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: cardinal4
Easily home made. Tabun (GA), the first of the known nerve gases, is easily made in homemade stills, and in large quantities. Indeed, most known nerve gas attacks during the Iran-Iraq War used Tabun because it was so cheap to manufacture in large quantities.
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:35:08 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: RayChuang88
Wait till these guys get a hold of a body killed by Obola..
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:41:40 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe..)
To: RayChuang88
Easily home made. Tabun (GA), the first of the known nerve gases...
But why would they need to make homemade Tabun when they have 2,500 chemical rockets full of Sarin gas?
Oh, wait, now I remember, because those chemical rockets don't really count as "real" WMDs. So those Kurds didn't die die, they just died.
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10/13/2014 12:42:32 PM PDT
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caligatrux
(...some animals are more equal than others.)
To: Dave346
Islamic State operatives have used chemical agents as a weapon That crosses Obama's red line. I imagine we'll send more "boots on the ground" . . . to Liberia.
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posted on
10/13/2014 12:57:30 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Dave346; F15Eagle
Israel is next on their target list. There is a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah that says the city of Damascus will be turned into a smoldering heap overnight.If they target Israel with WMD, Israel will retaliate.
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10/13/2014 1:06:28 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Dave346
Coming soon to American cities courtesy of Obama.
To: SkyPilot
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:22:09 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: cardinal4
Everything old is new again
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:24:20 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: Dave346
The Kurds are doomed if OdumBO draws a red line.
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:27:11 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: caligatrux
No worries! Those WMDs don’t really exist.
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posted on
10/13/2014 1:30:55 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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