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| Iraq |
| Chemical weapons injure seven in Mosul |
| 2017-03-04 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Seven people, among them five children, have been hospitalized over the past two days near Iraq’s djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... with injuries from chemical weapons, the Red Thingy said on Friday. ISIS, which holds the majority of west Mosul, has periodically used rudimentary chemical weapons in the course of its more than two-year war with Iraqi forces. "During the past two days, the hospital has admitted five children and two women showing clinical symptoms consistent with an exposure to a blistering chemical agent," Robert Mardini, the Red Thingy Middle East director, said in a statement, referring to a facility near Mosul. "The use of chemical weapons is absolutely prohibited under international humanitarian law. We are deeply alarmed by what our colleagues have seen, and we strongly condemn any use of chemical weapons, by any party, anywhere," Mardini said. The statement did not specify whether the seven were maimed in one or more attacks, how the chemical weapons were delivered, or who was responsible. Several Iraqi military officers said they did not have information about recent chemical weapons attacks in the Mosul area. ISIS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes and other support have since regained much of the ground they lost to the bully boys. ISIS has periodically used chemical weapons in the course of the conflict, but while this has garnered widespread attention, the bully boys’ bullets and bombs are far deadlier weapons. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The use of chemical weapons is absolutely prohibited under international humanitarian law. But rape camps or the beheading of prisoners is not nearly as bad? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-04 14:49 |
| #1 The Islamics/Islamicists seem to have an affinity for using chemical weapons. The West seems to have a desire for denying this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-04 09:26 |