ISIS suspected of mustard attack against US and Iraqi troops

[Bill USA]

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Source: CNN

ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.

The shell was categorized by officials as either a rocket or artillery shell. After it landed on the base, just south of Mosul, US troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard.

No US troops were hurt or have displayed symptoms of exposure to mustard agent.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/21/politics/mustard-gas-us-troops/

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Please, can we have the election sooner than Nov, so we can get hillary in there sooner. I would suggest a large input of A-10's with Gatling gun cannons. Great way to clear out an area of anything moving (e.g. ISIS terrorists).

[Eugene]

2. Islamic State fired crude chemical weapons on US troops – Pentagon

Source: The Guardian

Islamic State fired crude chemical weapons on US troops – Pentagon

Powdered mustard used in attack on airbase near Mosul in Iraq,
raising questions about whether the militant group is manufacturing
the agent itself

Spencer Ackerman in New York
Thursday 22 September 2016 02.28 BST

Islamic State forces have fired crude chemical weapons at US troops in Iraq, the Pentagon has confirmed, a startling disclosure that US officials promptly downplayed as resulting in no deaths or injuries.

The attack came from a powdered mustard agent delivered in a mortar or rocket shell and fired on US forces on Tuesday at the Qayyarah West airbase near Mosul. The airbase, recaptured from Isis in July, is a pivotal staging ground for a highly anticipated attack on Mosul, Isis’s capital in Iraq approximately 40 miles (65km) to the north.

Mustard, a banned chemical weapon, is relatively easy to manufacture and has a low incidence of lethality in all but extreme doses, such as the bombardment that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used on Kurdish civilians and Iranian soldiers in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/islamic-state-fired-crude-chemical-weapons-on-us-troops-pentagon

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