Iraqi children thallium poisoning [Archive] - Green Grass Forums

McLeodGanja

02-09-2008, 10:02 PM

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Poison cake kills Iraqi children (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7237086.stm)

Psycho4Bud

02-10-2008, 01:56 AM

The UK government has flown antidote medicine to the Middle East after some Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with the poison thallium.

Two of the victims, both children, died after eating cake delivered to a military club in Baghdad.

Others are being treated in hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents.

At least two of the poison victims, the secretary of the Iraqi air force club and his daughter, are critically ill in Amman.

They and half-a-dozen other patients suffering from thallium poisoning were flown from Baghdad to Amman as the necessary treatments and antidotes were not available in Iraq.

Britain responded to a request for help from the World Health Organization and medication was flown out.

A bio weapon from the Saddam days? That can't be! There were no WMD's in that country.:rolleyes:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

angry nomad

02-10-2008, 05:03 AM

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Depleted Uranium: the Napalm of the Iraq War.

8182KSKUSH

02-10-2008, 05:11 AM

The UK government has flown antidote medicine to the Middle East after some Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with the poison thallium.

Two of the victims, both children, died after eating cake delivered to a military club in Baghdad.

Others are being treated in hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents.

At least two of the poison victims, the secretary of the Iraqi air force club and his daughter, are critically ill in Amman.

They and half-a-dozen other patients suffering from thallium poisoning were flown from Baghdad to Amman as the necessary treatments and antidotes were not available in Iraq.

Britain responded to a request for help from the World Health Organization and medication was flown out.

A bio weapon from the Saddam days? That can't be! There were no WMD's in that country.:rolleyes:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

No, it's much more likely Islamic Fundamentalists that weren't there before we went in brought this chemical agent in that has never been there before, except for when Sadam used it, but whatever.;)

Yet ANOTHER story about these kind of weapons being found and used. Won't see this in the "non-liberal biased" news media huh? What bias? But I bet you see 3 different people in the next 10 posts talk about how there were "no wmds". Unfortunately you have to seek out these stories, and I guess if you rely on cable news and print media to feed you, then you probably really believe no wmds were there, or that they weren't carted off by the truck load, or that we don't have video of that happening, or that there are any of these kinds of weapons in the hands of terrorists there. Yeah, they happened to bring them with them right.:cool:

McLeodGanja

02-10-2008, 09:28 AM

A bio weapon from the Saddam days? That can't be! There were no WMD's in that country.:rolleyes:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

Well done to the American forces for finding it and stopping the terrorists from using it....

McLeodGanja

02-10-2008, 12:56 PM

Thallium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium)

"The CIA is believed (by its Inspector General) to have conceived a scheme to poison Fidel Castro by exposure to thallium salts placed in his shoes while they were being polished. The goal was to discredit him by causing him to lose his characteristic hair and beard. The scheme progressed as far as testing on animals, but the trip during which the poison was to be administered fell through.[12]"

You know, it would have been so much easier to just kill Saddam this way. The number of times Rumsfeld has met him to sell him guns, and maps to invade Iran, he could have arranged a meeting easily and slipped a few drops of rat poison in his tea when he wasn't looking.

Certainly it would have avoided hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, and they could have blamed it on the Russian probably as well.

texas grass

02-10-2008, 02:05 PM

A bio weapon from the Saddam days? That can't be! There were no WMD's in that country.:rolleyes:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

and they were manufactured by america/the west. so who will have the antidote the west?

McLeodGanja

02-10-2008, 02:10 PM

and they were manufactured by america/the west.

Now why am I not surprised to hear that....

midlifecrisis

02-10-2008, 02:27 PM

Thallium doesn't kill people....People Kill people.

8182KSKUSH

02-11-2008, 04:11 AM

and they were manufactured by america/the west. so who will have the antidote the west?

Wow! You should work for interpol or something, You know for a fact where it was manufactured, why didn't you say something before it was used! Do you know who used it too? Can you tell us all when it was made too!
At least the stuff you say is funnY:thumbsup:

whereishelpicon

02-12-2008, 03:43 AM

Seems fishy but the chances of it having been Saddam's seem low. I mean some insurgents got their hands on it during the invasion or something and then sat on it for 5 years or so? Then use it against children?

Don't get me wrong, it could have been Saddam's but it seems unlikely considering.

Plus anyways are you implying it was a good idea to invade Iraq?

8182KSKUSH

02-12-2008, 06:49 AM

Seems fishy but the chances of it having been Saddam's seem low. I mean some insurgents got their hands on it during the invasion or something and then sat on it for 5 years or so? Then use it against children?

Don't get me wrong, it could have been Saddam's but it seems unlikely considering.

Plus anyways are you implying it was a good idea to invade Iraq?

No you're right, they hiked it in in their superman thermous that is in their marvel comics lunch box? That's much more likely, that some turd in a cave made it and brought it in. Not very likely that Sadams regime made it since they actually have used it previousely on people in that county. No you are probably right.

And yeah, maybe they did sit on it for five years. Maybe they just got it a year ago? Who the hell knows? How long was it between the first and second world trade center was bombed? How long have they been waging this war against Isreal. Yeah you're right, 5 years, there's no way.:wtf:

Use it against kids, no that is to far beneath them! They have such a high moral standard when it comes to attacking people. They never TARGET CHILDREN, WOMEN, UNARMED CITIZENS, THEIR OWN PEOPLE, yeah that never happens.

The war, yeah it was and is a good idea. Unless you like the sound of "alllalalalalalalallla" and the taste of camel poop and making soccer balls. Yeah it was a great idea! It was executed much nicer than it should have been. It could have been over by now, if we would do the right thing instead of pussy footing around.:S4:

HerbalConfusion

02-13-2008, 02:17 PM

The UK government has flown antidote medicine to the Middle East after some Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with the poison thallium.

Two of the victims, both children, died after eating cake delivered to a military club in Baghdad.

Others are being treated in hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents.

At least two of the poison victims, the secretary of the Iraqi air force club and his daughter, are critically ill in Amman.

They and half-a-dozen other patients suffering from thallium poisoning were flown from Baghdad to Amman as the necessary treatments and antidotes were not available in Iraq.

Britain responded to a request for help from the World Health Organization and medication was flown out.

A bio weapon from the Saddam days? That can't be! There were no WMD's in that country.:rolleyes:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

In no way shape or form could u try to back up GWB with a few people dying from thallium. I mean thats like someone pouring a gram of fine led in your drink its because someone doesnt like you not because george didnt find a WMD.

whereishelpicon

02-14-2008, 03:55 AM

No you're right, they hiked it in in their superman thermous that is in their marvel comics lunch box? That's much more likely, that some turd in a cave made it and brought it in. Not very likely that Sadams regime made it since they actually have used it previousely on people in that county. No you are probably right.

And yeah, maybe they did sit on it for five years. Maybe they just got it a year ago? Who the hell knows? How long was it between the first and second world trade center was bombed? How long have they been waging this war against Isreal. Yeah you're right, 5 years, there's no way.:wtf:

Use it against kids, no that is to far beneath them! They have such a high moral standard when it comes to attacking people. They never TARGET CHILDREN, WOMEN, UNARMED CITIZENS, THEIR OWN PEOPLE, yeah that never happens.

The war, yeah it was and is a good idea. Unless you like the sound of "alllalalalalalalallla" and the taste of camel poop and making soccer balls. Yeah it was a great idea! It was executed much nicer than it should have been. It could have been over by now, if we would do the right thing instead of pussy footing around.:S4:

"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

:jointsmile:

yokinazu

02-14-2008, 04:14 PM

i have a question here does anyone know what thallium is used for? it can be readily found in rat and ant poison (not in the US) so as far as this being a WMD i find it highly unlikly. i would ind it morelikly that these terroist did hat they do best, took what they had at hand and used it. the roadside bombs were not designed to be used in the metod thay were used but rather with a little inguinuity they were able to take an artillary shell and make it a remote detonated device. so would it not also be concievable that they take a box of rat poison and turn it into a weopon?

had this been mustard gas, nerve agent, blister agent, or a bio weopon and killed 200 people well i would go with the wmd. also this had 8 victoms, they could have also concievably came into contact with it accidently

stinkyattic

02-14-2008, 04:17 PM

]Wow! You should work for interpol or something, You know for a fact where it was manufactured, why didn't you say something before it was used! Do you know who used it too? Can you tell us all when it was made too![/SIZE]
At least the stuff you say is funnY:thumbsup:You know what KUSH, for someone so prompt to hit that report button, you can be REALLY sarcastic and mean. Please treat others the way you'd like to be treated.

Psycho4Bud

02-14-2008, 05:44 PM

Kush.....you're posts remind me of that show Scariest Chases. Your going 110 miles an hour and there's a 45 mph corner just up ahead.:eek: SLOW down my brother. :thumbsup:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

You know what KUSH, for someone so prompt to hit that report button, you can be REALLY sarcastic and mean. Please treat others the way you'd like to be treated.

This makes two heads-up in one days time. Dude, ya can make your point without inciting a riot. If the shit starts to fly heavy, you COULD be named as the big terd.

Have a good one!:jointsmile: