[norwaypinesavage]

Twenty deaths and 50 injured are tragic and devastating to family and friends. Yet this is hardly a “Weapon of Mass Destruction”. If this is all Al Quaeda can come up with, it is clearly in its dying throes. God bless the armed services of the coalition.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Blogosphere...Strata-Sphere:

Anbar Repeating In Diyala

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One of the last throes of al Qaeda in Anbar Province, right before the Sunni’s switched allegiences en masse, was the use Chlorine attacks. The attacks were a sign of al Qaeda desparation. The use of chemical weapons signalled a willingness to use chemical weapons on Muslims in order to try and regain control over a province in which they were rapidly losing their grip. Chlorine gas is an ugly killer. It is clearly a weapon designed to instill more fear than casualties. It is an indicator of al Qaeda’s situation. And now we see these same desparate, brutal methods in Diyala: