South Sudan drops poisonous gas on rebel-held territories

Africa News Online ^ | April 15, 2017 | not attributed

[rod5591]

Assuming this news story is valid (one has to continually wonder these days), the unnamed poisonous gas used is reported to cause blindness, weakness, disorientation, and severe sneezing--mustard gas I wonder?

Anyway, chemical warfare is illegal. I hope the US will refrain from firing $60 million in cruise missiles in retaliation.

[ErikJohnsky]

if they’re Islamist rebels (in South Sudan, a Christian country), who effin cares

[dfwgator]

Ivanka isn’t going to like this.

[BeadCounter]

A lot of this there is tribal. I was reading about the competing tribes there.

[BeadCounter]

They kill UN workers trying to distribute food, that happened yesterday so it is all mixed up there.

[reasonisfaith]

The question is not whether Trump will do anything. The question is why would anyone try to ask whether Trump will do anything.

[reasonisfaith]

Get ready for a typical passive aggressive way to go after Trump.

[Repeal The 17th]

If the planet needed an enema, this is where you would stick it:

[boycott]

I think it is the UN’s turn to step up. We should stay out of the way.

[wastedyears]

Let them kill each other.

[Wuli]

What a tragedy is South Sudan. Predominately “black African”, tribal and oppressed in all of modern Sudan history under predominately Arab, Muslim Sudan, South Sudan splintered after a brokered peace with Sudan gave them independence, and rebel leaders, in power disputes with each other, led their sides into open civil war.

[Ciaphas Cain]

It's going to take two centuries, at least, before the African continent as a whole will be ready to join civility.

The Islamic Mid-East? Never happen there.

[ConservativeMind]

The UN has never won a war or conflict.

[HollyB]

Perhaps his strong response in Syria has others wondering?

[HollyB]

Most definitely we should stay out. We just sent ground troops to Somalia, especially after the past couple of weeks, plud We just sent ground troops into Somalia.

[BlackVeil]

That is what I read - competing tribal/ethnic groups.

I am so glad that I do not live in Africa.

[Finalapproach29er]

Ivanka isn’t going to like this.
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LMAO

[Flick Lives]

Give it a rest.

[Cololeo]

blindness, weakness, disorientation, and severe sneezing-

I had absolutely no idea there was a gas that turned people into raving liberals.

[blueplum]

There are 14,000 UN Peacekeepers in Sudan who can’t fight. Maybe it’s time for the AU to take over.