{"id":56015,"date":"2014-10-24T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56015"},"modified":"2014-10-24T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:09:33","slug":"islamic-state-uses-chlorine-gas-on-iraqi-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56015","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State uses chlorine gas on Iraqi police"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that 11 Iraqi police officers were hospitalized when ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State troops used chlorine gas in their battle for Duluiyah.<\/p>\n

The police officers, all members of the Sunni Jabbour tribe, which has turned against the Islamic State, were guarding a line in the town\u2019s north. After an exchange of fire, they said, they were surprised to see Islamic State fighters retreating from their position about 150 yards away.<\/p>\n

Suddenly there was a boom in the area the extremists had just vacated, said Lt. Khairalla al-Jabbouri, 31, one of the survivors. \u201cIt was a strange explosion. We saw a yellow smoke in the sky,\u201d he said. The wind carried the fog toward their lines. The men say it hung close to the ground, consistent with the properties of chlorine gas, which is heavier than air.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt suffocated,\u201d Jabbouri recalled. \u201cI was throwing up and couldn\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another officer, Ammer Jassim Mohammed, 31, who suffers from asthma, said he passed out within minutes.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The four physicians who treated them said there was no question that chlorine gas was to blame.<\/p>\n

One physician on the team, Hassanain Mohammed, had treated similar cases\u00ad before. In 2006 and 2007, al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group that later morphed into the Islamic State, carried out a string of chlorine bombings in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that the stocks of the chemical weapons that we’ve known were in Syria for decades are the source for ISIS’ weapons, you know those weapons that we knew existed but did nothing about, through several presidential administrations. They weren’t pointed at us and there were members of Congress who told us that Assad was a “reformer” and someone we could deal with;<\/p>\n

\"Syrian<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Funny how things can change in just a few short years, especially when your government is in denial.<\/p>\n

By the way, you noticed the part about the police being Sunnis, right? Sunnis like the ISIS folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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