ISIL Uses Chlorine Gas in Attack. [View all]

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Last edited Mon Sep 22, 2014, 02:51 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/urgent-isis-kills-300-iraqi-soldiers-chlorine-gas-attack-saqlawiyah/

(IraqiNews.com) On Monday several Members of Parliament from Diwaniyah Province confirmed that ISIS killed over 300 soldiers using chlorine gas for the first time in Saqlawiyah, north of Fallujah.

Islamic Dawa party MP Ali al-Badri said, at a press conference at the parliament building in the presence of a number of deputies of Diwaniyah province and attended by IraqiNews.com that “the terrorist organization ISIS used chlorine gas for the first time in the region of Saqlawiyah after trapping more than 400 troops, resulting in the deaths of many of them due to suffocation while the terrorist gangs detonated car bombs within the brigade headquarters.”

Badri said, “We hold the full responsibility for the fate of the trapped soldiers to the Commanding General of the Armed Forces, Haider Abadi, and the security leaders, especially the Anbar Operations Chief, Lt. Gen. Rashid Flaih, because of the slow measures taken by the Air Force despite frequent appeals for rapid procedures to rescue the soldiers since several days ago.”

Badri added that the “Saqlawiyah crime is considered as the second Speicher Massacre,” stressing that “300 soldiers were killed in the attack.”
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Guess this lends credence to the reports that it was the insurgents and not Assad who used chemical weapons in Syria.

EDIT: Point is, we don't know what's happening over there. Was it Assad using chemical weapons? or ISIL? Or the 'moderate' opposition? Who are the barbarians at the gate? The people's whose 'patriots' torture? The guys who use white phosphorus and depleted uranium? The country that beheads dozens every month? We are trapped in a cycle of violence.

FURTHER: Obama almost attacked Assad over the use of chemical weapons (still in dispute). We then armed the rebels to fight Assad. These rebels then turned into ISL, with the help of the Iraqi military that we trained. We are now going to arm a different set of these rebels to fight ISIL and Assad, in the hopes that will will be well in the end. It will not be. The solution is to force a coalition of SA, Assad, Iran, Israel, et al, it will be good for them.

In my view, we are one of the major problems, not the solution in the Middle East.