Re: Commercially available chlorine gas is not a "WMD" except in the minds of deluded, wackadoodle rightwingers


"Patriot Games" <Crazy_***@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/17/90100.shtml?s=lh

Chlorine Gas Injures 356 in Iraq Bombing
NewsMax.com Wires Saturday, March 17, 2007

BAGHDAD -- Multiple suicide bombings struck the Sunni insurgent stronghold
of Anbar province, and about 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops were
treated for exposure to chlorine gas, the military said Saturday. At least
two policemen also were killed in the attacks.

The violence started Friday afternoon when a driver detonated the
explosives in a pickup truck northeast of Ramadi, wounding one U.S.
service member and one Iraqi civilian, the military said in a statement.

That was followed by a similar explosion involving a dump truck south of
Fallujah in Amiriyah that killed two policemen and left as many as 100
residents showing signs of chlorine exposure, with symptoms ranging from
minor skin and lung irritations to vomiting, the military said.

Another suicide bomber detonated a dump truck containing a 200-gallon
chlorine tank rigged with explosives Friday evening, also south of
Fallujah in the Albu Issa tribal region, the military said. U.S. forces
responded to the attack and found about 250 local civilians, including
seven children, suffering from symptoms related to chlorine exposure,
according to the statement.

Suicide car bombers have used chlorine against Iraqis in Anbar a total of
five times since Jan. 28, it said.




The new subject line says it all.

These guys are buying or stealing commercially-available chlorine gas
cylinders, placing explosives on them, and blowing them up in crowded areas
where the gas will kill people.

It's known as "modifying tactics" to meet the US "surge." Get accustomed to
it.


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