Truck bombers using chlorine kill 8 in Iraq

Truck bombers using chlorine kill 8 in Iraq

FALLUJA, Iraq, March 17 (Reuters) - Two suicide truck bombers driving tanks filled with chlorine killed at least eight people and 85 were made ill on Friday in the western Iraqi town of Falluja, hospital sources said on Saturday.

The first attack was at the entrance of Amiriyat Falluja, a large housing complex south of Falluja, that killed six people including policemen and making 79 ill, including 27 children.

The second bomber targeted a tribal leader opposed to al Qaeda nearby when he blew up his tanker outside the man's home, killing two people and making six ill because of exposure to the chemical.

Militants have used chlorine as a weapon in the past. At least two bombings involving chlorine killed eight people in February.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA731905.htm

Um, remind me, what was the point of the Iraq invasion again?

:shrug:

Iraq bombers poison 350 with dirty bombs 5 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bombers have detonated explosives on three trucks carrying a toxic gas amid traffic in western Iraq, killing at least two police and leaving 350 civilians needing treatment, the US military said Saturday.

All three attacks were carried out between 4.11 pm (1311 GMT) and 7.13 pm on Friday, two of them just south of the town of Fallujah and one northeast of the nearby city of Ramadi, both hotbeds of Al-Qaeda militants, a statement said.


more;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070317/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestattack_070317113626

(Reuters)
Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR734838.htm

It has been a fairly busy day and it's only half over.

nothing left to lose" then we have truly brought freedom to all Iraqis. Thank you Mr Bush and may you die a horrible and lingering death when your time finally comes, it cannot be too soon.

:sarcasm:

i just pray that Bush doesn't retaliate with our own WMDs.

Chemical and Biological weapons are not ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Topic started by blueinindiana on Feb-25-07 09:21 PM (25 replies)
Last modified by spoony on Feb-27-07 02:09 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=288658

and

How to Handle a Chlorine Bomb (Chlorine is more hype than hurt)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=116x14083

I have heard from my buds in Anbar that the shiekhs have slowly been turning against Al Qaeda. Not exactly that they are becoming pro-US or anything but that Al qaeda is more destructive than we are. If this is as it appears, Al qaeda just signalled they will go to war with their one secure base of support in country........Sometimes I think al qaeda is stupider than the President......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031700432.html

Chlorine Blasts Kill 8; 6 Troops Also Die in Iraq

By Karin Brulliard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, 2007; Page A20

BAGHDAD, March 17 -- Three trucks rigged with chlorine and explosives blew up in the Sunni insurgent center of Anbar province Friday, killing at least eight people and sickening hundreds, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday. The U.S. military also reported the deaths of six American soldiers in other attacks.

The chlorine bombs -- two near Fallujah and one near Ramadi -- left at least 350 people and seven U.S. soldiers ill from exposure to the chemical, the military said. At least eight people were killed in the Fallujah bombings, including two policemen, said Sadoun Abdul Karim, an official with the Ministry of Interior.

Primitive at best, I know... on page A-20

Unfrigging unbelievable!