Deadly Iraq bomb releases chlorine gas (15 dead)

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

A truck bomb exploded in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 15 people and releasing chlorine gas into the air, police and security sources said.

Police Colonel Tareq Dulaimi from Ramadi said the bomb, which targeted a police patrol, wounded at least 30 people. He said several people were also choking from the gas.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSBAY63048820070406

[ClintonTyree]

1. What a terrible way to go....

I mean, there's no good way to go, but this is an excruciating death. It's becoming more commonplace as well. If nothing else, the insurgents are resourceful. They may not have multi-million dollar machines of death at their disposal but they keep finding new and deadly way to get their dirty deeds done. Sad.

[Eugene]

2. Chlorine Truck Bomber Kills 27 in Ramadi

Source: Associated Press

Chlorine Truck Bomber Kills 27 in Ramadi

By BASSEM MROUE
The Associated Press
Friday, April 6, 2007; 8:12 AM

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine
gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least
27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040600243.html

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Report continues with a narrative of incidents across Iraq.

[Roland99]

3. FYI, Ramadi - June 2006 - So, US troops are now going to lay seige to Ramadi, eh? (AGAIN)

List of multiple previous US attempts at surges/sieges of Ramadi:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Roland99/4

[maddezmom]

4. Basra Police: EFP bomb killed Britons (car bomb in Ramadi kills 20)

Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD - The Basra police commander on Friday said the roadside bomb used in an attack that killed four British soldiers had not been used in southern Iraq before, and his description of the deadly weapon indicated it was a feared Iranian-designed explosively formed projectile.


Separately, a suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint Friday in western Ramadi, killing at least 20 people — two of them policemen — and wounding as many as 30, police in the Anbar provincial capital.

Police opened fire as the suicide bomber sped toward a checkpoint, three miles west of Ramadi, according to police Col. Tariq al-Dulaimi.

Anbar province has been a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency but many tribes in the region recently switched allegiance, with large numbers of military-age men joining the police force and Iraqi army in a bid to expel al-Qaida in Iraq fighters.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070406/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Eugene]

5. Iraq bomb kills 15, releases chlorine gas

Source: Reuters

Iraq bomb kills 15, releases chlorine gas
Fri Apr 6, 2007 3:35 PM IST

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - A truck bomb exploded in the volatile Iraqi city
of Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 15 people and releasing chlorine gas
into the air, police and security sources said.

Police Colonel Tareq Dulaimi from Ramadi said the bomb, which targeted a
police patrol, wounded at least 30 people. He said several people were also
choking from the gas.

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Read more: http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-04-06T152936Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-293355-1.xml

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Source: Associated Press

Apr. 6, 2007 12:19
Iraq: 20 killed, 30 wounded in suicide car bombing
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

A suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint Friday in western Ramadi,
killing at least 20 people - two of them policemen - and wounding as
many as 30, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.

-snip-

Police opened fire as the suicide car bomber sped toward a checkpoint,
five kilometers west of Ramadi, according to police Col. Tariq al-Dulaimi.

Nearby buildings were heavily damaged and police were searching the
rubble for more victims of the 11:15 a.m. attack.

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Read more: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879260177&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[bemildred]

6. "Iranian-designed"?

Tell me we are not being fed propaganda.

[MGD]

7. Chlorine bomb kills 27 in Ramadi

Source: The Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people — two of them policemen — and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.
In the deep south of the country, the Basra police commander said the type of roadside bomb used in an attack that killed four British soldiers on Thursday had not been seen in the region previously. His description of the deadly weapon indicated it was a feared Iranian-designed explosively formed penetrator.

Two more of the bombs were discovered planted along routes heavily traveled by U.S. and British diplomats in Basra. Weeks earlier, the American military had claimed Iran was supplying Shiite militia fighters in Iraq with the powerful weapons, known as EFPs. They hurl a molten, fist-sized copper slug capable of piercing armored vehicles.

The bombing in Anbar province marked the ninth use of suicide chlorine bombs in the sprawling, mainly desert territory that has been a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-04-06-efp_N.htm?csp=34

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Make no mistake, mince no words, this is chemical warfare.

[Kagemusha]

8. Love it how shaped penetrators are spun as an Iranian invention.

No, that's not what's said exactly, but that's certainly left heavily implied. That the only place this could come from is Iran.

And if it is from Iran, it's just a preview of how much support they could provide to anti-US forces in Iraq if they really wanted to.

[leftwingnut]

9. That article is just full of good news!!! Not!

From Chlorine bombs (Sunni or Shiite, I don't think 'they' even know, because it sounds like it's still unclear as to who is planting these bombs) to US choppers being shot down...to home invasions...I think that article could go on and on about how f**ked up it really is.

[Javaman]

11. After doing a bit of googling

and no doubt now being tracked by the FBI, it appears as if with little effort the chlorine for the bombs is fairly easy to make and the materials are fairly easy to acquire.

And considering that many of the insurgents are ex military and no doubt ex scientists, I'm sure they have the expertise to make many of these.

I have a solution, lets pull out the troops.

[MGD]

12. Chlorine is commercially available for various purposes, swimming pools & drinking water for example

When pressurized, such as in a tanker truck you might see driving down any American highway, it is a liquid; however, when the pressure is released, for example, when the tanker truck has a few well placed explosive charges go off that sever it in half, the liquid, no longer pressurized, enters its gaseous phase and clings to the ground in the form of a ghastly yellow vapor that instantly begins to corrode metal and, more notably, the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. The resulting damage to the delicate epethelial cells of the lungs results in varying levels of impaired gas exchange coupled with severe coughing and hacking with expectoration of copious amounts of thick yellow/bloody sputum. Ultimately, you will drown in your own lungs or die from the asphyxiation that results from the impaired gas exchange which is why, in military circles, Chlorine (Cl2) and Phosgene (CO:Cl2) are known as "choking agents". I'm not sure of the exact effects on your eyes. I'm sure it isn't good.

[Eugene]

10. 18 killed in other violence around Iraq - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 6
Fri 6 Apr 2007 9:46 AM ET

April 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1330 GMT
on Friday:

* denotes new or updated item.

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* BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces raided the office of Mohammed al-Daini,
a parliament member with the Sunni Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, in
Baghdad's Qadissiya district. Daini said between 25 to 30 employees were
arrested.

* MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead tribal leader Sheikh Ghazi al- Hanash, as he
was leaving a mosque in southeastern Mosul, police said.

-snip-

BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and five wounded when three mortars
landed in Baghdad's northern Shaab District, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Eleven bodies were found in different parts of the city on
Thursday, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://today.reuters.com/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=BAY641196

[Eugene]

13. US military puts Iraq truck bomb death toll at 12

Source: Reuters

US military puts Iraq truck bomb death toll at 12
07 Apr 2007 06:56:25 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, April 7 (Reuters) - The death toll from a truck bomb attack on a
police checkpoint in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Friday was 12, the U.S.
military said on Saturday.

The toll was considerably lower than that reported by most media organisations.
The military said the blast wounded 43, including eight women and five children.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07615632.htm