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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Peshmerga: ISIS may have used chemical weapons in Makhmur
2015-08-13
[RUDAW.NET] Peshmerga officials say they have asked international experts to examine maimed Peshmerga soldiers who they fear were exposed to chemical weapons by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Lion of Islams.

Muhammad Khoshawi, a Peshmerga commander, told Rudaw a group of US and French 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, 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  Lulz

Splish splash I was takin a bath
Right in the grand canal!

Bing bang I saw the BRIC gang!
I went and sold my yuan

Too late
I seed my fate and put my dancin shoes on!

Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-13 18:38  

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