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| Two More Children Die after Iraq Chemical Attack |
| 2016-03-20 |
| [An Nahar] Two more children have died of wounds suffered in a suspected jihadist chemical attack last week in Iraq, an official said on Friday, raising the corpse count to three. "We recorded the death this evening of a 10-year-old girl," said Hussein Abbas, the mayor of Taza, a town south of Kirkuk that was targeted by rockets armed with suspected mustard agent. A six-month-old baby also died on Thursday of complications resulting from the attack, he said, while a three-year-old girl had died shortly after the March 9 attack. Sources at the Kirkuk health directorate and a rights group also confirmed the deaths. Abbas said the number of people treated after complaining of burns, rashes and respiratory problems has risen to 1,500. A total of 25,000 people had left their homes in and around Taza, fearing another attack from the neighboring village of Bashir, still controlled by 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.... jihadist group, he said. Officials have charged that IS used mustard agent in the attack. The samples are still being analyzed, and definitive results from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in The Hague can take several months. While the chemical agents allegedly used by IS so far have been among their least effective weapons, the psychological impact on civilians is considerable. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has vowed the attack would not go unpunished and several air raids have already been carried out on Bashir in recent days. |
| Posted by:Fred |