Showing posts with label Chemical Weapons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chemical Weapons. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Wait 'Til Iran Uses A Nuke!

March 14, 2015 Chemical Weapons , Iran 0 Comments
ISIS Using Chemical Weapons, Iraqi Kurds Charge

Source:  www.rddusa.com
By Associated Press, Mar. 14, 2015

Kurdish authorities in Iraq said Saturday they have evidence ISIS used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against peshmerga fighters, the latest alleged atrocity carried out by the extremist organization now under attack in Tikrit.

The allegation by the Kurdistan Region Security Council, stemming from a Jan. 23 suicide truck-bomb attack in northern Iraq, did not immediately draw a reaction from the Islamist jihadists, who hold a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in its self-declared caliphate. However, Iraqi officials and Kurds fighting in Syria have made similar allegations about the militants using the low-grade chemical weapons against them.

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In a statement, the council said the alleged chemical attack took place on a road between Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and the Syrian border, as peshmerga forces fought to seize a vital supply line used by the Sunni militants. It said its fighters later found "around 20 gas canisters" that had been loaded onto the truck involved in the attack.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

But, per NYT, Bush STILL got intel wrong!!

November 08, 2014 C.J. Chivers , Chemical Weapons 0 Comments
NYTimes: More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure In Iraq

C.J. Chivers, Nov. 6, 2014, New York Times

More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say.

The Pentagon’s disclosure abruptly changed the scale and potential costs of the United States’ encounters with abandoned chemical weapons during the occupation of Iraq, episodes the military had for more than a decade kept from view.

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Monday, May 19, 2014

Kerry: ‘We’re Not Going To Pin Ourselves Down’ If Assad Continues To Use Chemical Weapons --A flip from last year

May 19, 2014 Bashar al-Assad , Chemical Weapons 0 Comments
By Douglas Ernst, May 16, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

“We’re not going to pin ourselves down,” was Secretary of State John Kerry’s response in London on Thursday to a reporter who asked what the U.S. would do if it were confirmed that the Assad regime recently used chlorine-based chemical weapons in Syria.

Mr. Kerry’s rhetoric while at a “Friends of Syria” meeting, a collection of 11 foreign ministers, was in stark contrast to his position in August 2013, when he said “history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator’s wanton use of weapons of mass destruction against all warnings, against all common understanding of decency.”

The Weekly Standard noted on Friday that in September 2013, Mr. Kerry said Assad’s use of chemical weapons was the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” which would require a military strike as punishment.

Faced with growing evidence that the Syrian regime is again using chemical weapons, Mr. Kerry told those the reporter in front of the London 11 on Thursday: “We’re not going to pin ourselves down to a precise time, date, manner of action, but there will be consequences if it were to be proven, including, I might say, things that are way beyond our control and have nothing to do with us. But the International Criminal Court and others are free to hold him accountable. […] So one way or the other, there will be accountability.”

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