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| Germany confirms Peshmerga fighting ISIS were attacked by chemical weapons |
| 2015-08-14 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The German military on Thursday confirmed a possible chemical weapons attack on Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (ISIS). The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq had asked for international help to determine whether chemical weapons had been used in an attack late Tuesday on the Peshmerga on the Makhmur front, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil. There was a "possible chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish frontlines at sector six," the German defense ministry said. Muhammad Khoshawi, a Peshmerga commander, told Rudaw on Wednesday that a group of Western experts had arrived in the area to take samples and establish facts after a Tuesday night mortar attack on Kurdish positions in Makhmur, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil. "Last night at least 45 mortar rounds were fired at our positions, which we believe were loaded with chemicals, since the wounds are different," Khoshawi, whose forces patrol the area, had said. Burn wounds on the bodies of a number of Peshmerga were examined by the experts and sent to a laboratory for further studies, according to Khoshawi. He said Peshmerga forces in the area were instructed to use gas masks in case of mortar attacks until results are verified in the laboratory. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder where ISIS got chemical weapons? Via the late Ambassador Stevens or even later Saddam Hussein? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-08-14 07:29 |