Chemical warfare. "Scores choke in poison gas attack," from CNN:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A cloud of deadly toxic gas engulfed an Iraqi town Tuesday, killing six people and leaving dozens of others choking on fumes after a tanker carrying chlorine exploded outside a restaurant.
An Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said the blast in the town of Taji, 12 miles (20 km) north of Baghdad, was caused by a bomb on board the tanker.
There were contrasting figures on the casualty toll. Baghdad security plan spokesman Gen. Qassim Atta told state-run al-Iraqiya TV that five people died in the blast and 148 were poisoned by the gas.
So the experiment in murder goes on and they are testing out methods in Iraq.
Chlorine is nasty stuff. Several years ago a train derailed in Florida(I think), a chlorine tank car ruptured and killed several people. Some of the injuries and deaths occurred far away from the accident. Death by chlorine is very very unpleasant; survivors are left with severely and permanently diminished lung capacity depending on the amount of exposure.
Chlorine is a heavy gas and clings to low lying areas, the reason it was and is an effective chemical weapon, and the first gas used in WW1. It is also a very common industrial chemical, it's everywhere.
Who has been taking lessons to get truck-driving licenses here? Who has been monitoring the schools, monitoring the lists, monitoring the hiring, monitoring the hazmat permits? Who? And do they have any articulated basis for denying such permits to all those who claim to be adherents of the belief-system of Islam, or are they left without one, unless they can show all kinds of other evidence that may not be visible, or may not even exist, until such time as the mild adherent has a delayed charge go off in his subliminal and unfathomable-to-Infidels depths, and then acts upon that charge that goes off silently, deep within, and Infidels pay for this with their safety, their security, their lives.
Gas trucks. Gas warfare. Where has gas warfare been used? Only by the Germans and then the Arabs when they got their hands on it. In World War I, by the Germans against soldiers of England and France. In World War II, against the millions of Jewish men, wommen, and children who were not shot or beaten to death, or suffocated in those trains, or drowned alive -- those for whom that was not the prescribed manner of death were sent to be gassed.
And then, after World War II, only by Arabs. By Nasser in the Yemen in the 1960s. By Iraqi Arabs, against the Irnaians, during the Iran-Iraq War. By Al Qaeda experimenters, gassing dogs, in the spirit of Mengele, in Afghanistan - just to get some idea of how Infidels might fare if given the same treatment. And now in Iraq. Why not? Anything goes, when you are conducting Jihad fi sabil Allah. Doesn't Allah know best? And wouldn't Muhammad want you not to pull any punches, but instead to pull out all the stops? Isn't the final triumph of Islam, the true branch of Islam, justification enough?
.....chemical and biological weapons have been found in Iraq, but were deemed "not weapons of mass destruction" because they were of old manufacture....imbeciles.....deemed so, by people educated beyond their intelligence....
It has begun.
Muslims with chemicals weapons. Now, what better combination can there be? I think that gasoline with fire is less dangerous.
Makes you think how backwards some of these people are. I just cant imagine anyone in England going to another town and gassing them. Its beyond belief...well not for Islamic jihad.
Factual Error Alert:
"Where has gas warfare been used? Only by the Germans . . ."
Britian and France also used gas in WW ONE.
The British used it at Loos, the French at Ypres. France invented phosgene. The Germans were the first (Ypres), but its use was not beneath the British and French. The use of gas in battle against well trained troops is not very effective.
I'm going to clarify a statement I posted at 12:27
"Chlorine is a heavy gas and clings to low lying areas, the reason it was and is an effective chemical weapon, and the first gas used in WW1."
. . . an effective chemical weapon against untrained and unprotected civilians and soldiers, and the first gas used in WW1."
So now, it can be claimed that the Iranian insurgents are using Chemical Weapons, or at least knowing which truck to shoot, to contaminate an area, a town, with chem. weapons.
With regard only to Iraq, I believe that the U.S. made a mistake, a big one, too. Saddam would've made a far better ally against Iran, than our enemy to overthrow and execute.
But that's the past, and unchangeable now. Instead, how many enemies does the United States have in Iraq today? And in the region?
I fully agree, that our deadliest foe is Islam, don't get me wrong;
but the Bush administration has mistakenly misunderstood how the Muslim mind works, and hasn't utilized that knowledge in the fight against Iran, against militant Mullahs there, our ultimate enemy there in the region.
What an ally a Saddam would've meant to us today.
Thinking only of how we could win, could've won.
Whatever happened to the Iraqis who began bleeding from the nose and dying after dinner a few months back? Must have been bad fish.
Chemical Ali?
"Factual Error Alert:
"Where has gas warfare been used? Only by the Germans . . ." [quoted from Hugh above]
Britain and France also used gas in WW ONE.
The British used it at Loos, the French at Ypres. France invented phosgene. The Germans were the first (Ypres), but its use was not beneath the British and French. The use of gas in battle against well trained troops is not very effective."
-- from a posting above
Yes, it is true that during World War I, gas was used, but only on two occasions, once by the British and once by the French, while its use was introduced by the Germans, and they routinely used gas until the other side decided to follow suit. At Ypres the French did so, after the Germans had, and only to stop them. In the last great battle, at Loos, the British did so, having waited a full five months for the Germans to halt the practice.
So I was wrong. I should have written: It was the Germans who introduced the use of poison gas and it was only the Germans who routinely used it."
The point, however, still stands. Civilized armies do not routinely use it. The Germans, and the Arabs (the Egyptian Army in Yemen, the Iraqi Army in Iran) have done so. And of course they would certainly have used it against Israel, did Israel not have its nuclear weapons and, one hopes, the willingness, as it must, to use them -- to leave its enemies at least as prostrate (and enemies would include such supporters of Jihad as Saudi Arabia) as the Allies left Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan after World War II.
This sounds suspiciously to me like a practice run for the type of terrorist fandango these lovely folks would ideally like to pull off in America.
Beware. This could be a precursor of things to come our way. I hate to say it.
It sure isn't helping that the Bush administration is still planning to permit thousands of Iraqis to immigrate into the United States either.
pythagoras,
Our company uses Clorine to pressure clean buildings. It is hauled by truck and rail car right throw the middle of our citys and small towns.
In our small town I could show you at least 10 five thousand gallon tanks. It is one of those things that is somewhere between a gas and a liquid, able to change from one to the other. when released the gas vapors flow like water and the liquid flows like water.
It can cause severe resperatory distress in a very short time, making it difficult to escape from. You don't have to blow it up just make it leak in a manner that is hard to stop.
Another Iraqi bombing was reported today.
A suicide bomber with a bomb belt walked into a funeral tent and detonated his belt killing seven and wounding at least 15.----Do the math!
If a bomber kills seven at each funeral, that means seven more funerals after which would follow forty-nine funerals after which-----etc.
Direct each bomber to the tents and our boys will be home in no time!!!---Or---save the munitions and just put a little gas under the tent flap!
How many Methodists wear bomb belts into Baptist funeral tents?
You know, we make these sarcastic posts because this stuff just makes your "can you believe this crap" meter just go off the charts!!
auntbea: Thank you for sharing!
Have a great, terrorism-free day (and preferably life!).
Pythagoras
No WMD Mmmm....
It would seem that Allah is not very Progressive or Multicultural. Unless it involves killing.
"Isn't the final triumph of Islam, the true branch of Islam, justification enough?"
It will certainly prove "justification enough" for total war. At least, once the West finally wakes up to the true nature of Islam's threat.