Truck bombers using chlorine kill 8 in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Truck bombers using chlorine kill 8 in Iraq

FALLUJA, Iraq, March 17 (Reuters) - Two suicide truck bombers driving tanks filled with chlorine killed at least eight people and 85 were made ill on Friday in the western Iraqi town of Falluja, hospital sources said on Saturday.

The first attack was at the entrance of Amiriyat Falluja, a large housing complex south of Falluja, that killed six people including policemen and making 79 ill, including 27 children.

The second bomber targeted a tribal leader opposed to al Qaeda nearby when he blew up his tanker outside the man's home, killing two people and making six ill because of exposure to the chemical.

Militants have used chlorine as a weapon in the past. At least two bombings involving chlorine killed eight people in February.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA731905.htm

[xchrom]

1. surge baby, surge!

[CJCRANE]

2. More terrorists and more chemical weapons.

Um, remind me, what was the point of the Iraq invasion again?

:shrug:

[maddezmom]

3. Iraq bombers poison 350 with dirty bombs 5 minutes ago

Iraq bombers poison 350 with dirty bombs 5 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bombers have detonated explosives on three trucks carrying a toxic gas amid traffic in western Iraq, killing at least two police and leaving 350 civilians needing treatment, the US military said Saturday.

All three attacks were carried out between 4.11 pm (1311 GMT) and 7.13 pm on Friday, two of them just south of the town of Fallujah and one northeast of the nearby city of Ramadi, both hotbeds of Al-Qaeda militants, a statement said.


more;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070317/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestattack_070317113626

[Eugene]

4. 21 killed in other violence across Iraq.

(Reuters)

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 17
17 Mar 2007 09:49:06 GMT
Source: Reuters

March 17 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0930 GMT
on Saturday:

-snip-

BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of nine people across Baghdad on Friday,
a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Three civilians were killed when a mortar hit their house in southern
Baghdad on Friday, a police source said.

MOSUL - The bodies of two men and two women were found in various districts
of Mosul on Friday. Two infants were found alive beside the two dead women,
police said.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR734838.htm

It has been a fairly busy day and it's only half over.

[saigon68]

5. FREEDOM is on the March

[pokercat999]

6. If Janis is right and "Freedom's just another word for

nothing left to lose" then we have truly brought freedom to all Iraqis. Thank you Mr Bush and may you die a horrible and lingering death when your time finally comes, it cannot be too soon.

[chelsea0011]

7. See! Bush was right. There are WMD's in Iraq.

:sarcasm:

[charlie and algernon]

8. God, that's some scary shit

i just pray that Bush doesn't retaliate with our own WMDs.

[Ian David]

9. See related threads

Chemical and Biological weapons are not ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Topic started by blueinindiana on Feb-25-07 09:21 PM (25 replies)
Last modified by spoony on Feb-27-07 02:09 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=288658

and

How to Handle a Chlorine Bomb (Chlorine is more hype than hurt)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=116x14083

[sanskritwarrior]

10. Interesting....

I have heard from my buds in Anbar that the shiekhs have slowly been turning against Al Qaeda. Not exactly that they are becoming pro-US or anything but that Al qaeda is more destructive than we are. If this is as it appears, Al qaeda just signalled they will go to war with their one secure base of support in country........Sometimes I think al qaeda is stupider than the President......

[rodeodance]

11. Chlorine Blasts Kill 8; 6 (US) Troops Also Die in Iraq (p. A-20)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031700432.html

Chlorine Blasts Kill 8; 6 Troops Also Die in Iraq

By Karin Brulliard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, 2007; Page A20

BAGHDAD, March 17 -- Three trucks rigged with chlorine and explosives blew up in the Sunni insurgent center of Anbar province Friday, killing at least eight people and sickening hundreds, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday. The U.S. military also reported the deaths of six American soldiers in other attacks.

The chlorine bombs -- two near Fallujah and one near Ramadi -- left at least 350 people and seven U.S. soldiers ill from exposure to the chemical, the military said. At least eight people were killed in the Fallujah bombings, including two policemen, said Sadoun Abdul Karim, an official with the Ministry of Interior.

[rodeodance]

12. 6 troops die on the day of protests.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. They put the use of Chemical Warfare Agents

Primitive at best, I know... on page A-20

Unfrigging unbelievable!