Bring your chem suits with you to Iraq
It seems that ISIS (ISIL, IS, Taliban 2.0, et al) has decided to up the ante on abominations and the rules of war. According to the WaPo, they have used chlorine gas on Iraqi police at least three times in recent weeks.
“Dizzy, vomiting and struggling to breathe, 11 Iraqi police officers were rushed to a government hospital 50 miles north of the capital last month. The diagnosis: poisoning by chlorine gas. The perpetrators, according to the officers: Islamic State extremists.
The chlorine attack appears to be the first confirmed use of chemical weapons by the Islamic State on the battlefield. An Iraqi Defense Ministry official corroborated the events, and doctors said survivors’ symptoms were consistent with chlorine poisoning.”
While its unclear whether the gas came from old Saddam-era rockets, or Syrian stockpiles, or they just brewed it up in a Winnebago in the Iraqi Western Desert Walter White style, the fact is, it looks like Chem Warfare has been added to execution of prisoners of war, suicide bombings, beheading, and other general unpleasantness.