Posted on 03/17/2007 8:36:52 AM PDT by Cinnamon
Three chlorine gas attacks in Iraq are reported to have killed eight people and left hundreds injured, including six US troops.
Two of the attacks were near the city of Falluja, the third near Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Both areas are hotbeds of al-Qaeda militants.
Chlorine gas can cause severe burns to the throat and lungs and can kill after only a few breaths.
There were at least three such attacks in Iraq in February.
'Vomiting'
The heaviest casualties were in a suicide attack on Friday evening at the entrance to a housing estate south of Falluja in which six people were reported to have been killed. The injured included at least 27 children.
Map Shortly before that another attack in the same area killed two Iraqi policemen.
Officials say that in both attacks the assailants drove dumper trucks containing the bombs at their targets. One of the trucks is reported to have contained a 200 gallon (900 litre) tank of chlorine and explosives.
The third attack was at a checkpoint near Ramadi.
"Approximately 350 Iraqi civilians and six coalition for
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I caught just a whiff of chlorine once. What came out of my lungs and nose could clean a toilet. If they want to play this kind of game, blow up a tank of flourine where they live. Things will stop dead.
If you hadn't realized a long time ago that Saddam moved all the WMD's to Syria....he had plenty of time....you aren't thinking.
TANKS for the thread,,,My house-mates son is in Mahmoudiyah with Task Force 2/15 Artillery,2nd.Brg.10th.Mt.
Div. Any news on GI's in this ares would be appreciated...
Mahmoudiyah was mentioned on the other thread and a pic..
[[[ Climb To Glory ]]] Huurrraaaagggh Bump...
Prayers Up For The Troops,,,
GOD Bless...
Keep your gas mask with you. Along with all the other crap you must haul around. Remember - what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That's an ancient phrase from Chinese. Keep Allah's Waiting Room open for business:)
Unless you're a democrat. Then it makes you whinier.
The MSM'll never call it what it is because WMD use in acts of terrorism in Iraq wouldn't suit their agendas.
We need a name for drive by posters. There is a lot of them here that post and run away.
"what do you do? " - use "the hair of the dog" approach and chlorinate the congregating excremists.
Desperation by the terrorists. How they expect to maintain the support of the population by using WMD, only Satan knows.
1 Iraqi foot soldier with pocketfull of vials, quietly threads over the imaginary line between Syria and Babylon.
is he not a wmd?
how many of them crossed?
Let's break out a few tactical nukes on terrorist strongholds. Let's then compare the damage...
Wrong. Democrats don't survive. Conservatives live to fight on; on the day they choose to.
Mustard Gas *is* a war crime. Naturally the unbiased, non partisan MSM isn't going to pay this any attention.
Roger-That Gas-Mask,,,Ain't turned into Ypres`,,,yet,,,
The T.F.2/15 Arty just finished re-building that market
from last time(month ago),,,That Trooper has had nothing
good to say about the iraq army,(2nd tour now),,,
It was posted on FR a few weeks ago that the IA in that
area would not go in with them on a raid,,,The GI's had
to take the target at half strength because of this,,,
This last bomb had to go through one or more IA checkpoints
to get to that market...
This just gives my call for tactical nukes more sense. If Tehran wants a demonstration on nukes, let's make it up close and personal...
Simple, they are from Iran and Palestine, they don't give a rip about Iraqi's dying. They don't have the support, Muslims don't support other Muslims as they are all infidels but themselves.
It's just chlorine.
When I was young I could breathe chlorine vapors, such as cleaning products, indoor swimming pools, public spas with no problem. Now if I'm in a relatively strong chlorine environment I taste it for hours and it makes my lungs burn.
I can only imagine what a weaponized concentration of Chlorine would be like. I don't LIKE to imagine it.
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Ammonia cloud reported in MN.
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