Breaking: Taliban Using Chemical Weapons Against US Troops? 4-5 Troops Reportedly Fall Ill
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 29, 2010, 6:48 PM
Five US troops serving in Afghanistan recently fell ill after a suspected chemical weapons attack. Four or five members fell ill after the attack. One soldier is very sick. They are having trouble breathing.
I am waiting for more information. I should have an update by morning.
In 2009 National Terror Alert reported that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban had developed some expertise in making bio-chemical weapons.
The al-Qaida-Taliban combo plans to use parts of the Middle East as launch pads for attacks against the west. Not only so, the groups have also developed some expertise in making bio-chemical weapons, NWFP police chief Malik Navid told a Pakistan National Assembly’s standing committee.
Navid warned that the Pakistan government needed to urgently focus on containing militancy as it spread from its bases. “Taliban’s philosophy is to create pockets everywhere,” he said, adding that jihadi groups were moving through southern Punjab and eventually aimed to reach the financial hub of Karachi.
Earlier this month on May 10, 2010, Stratfor reported on a chemical weapons attack on a girls school in Afghanistan.
Recently, 17 students at a Kabul, Afghanistan, girls high school fell ill and had to be hospitalized, along with several teachers. Doctors at the hospital agreed that it was some kind of poison, but have not been able to identify it yet. All the victims smelled something odd when they got to school, then fell ill, with some of the students losing consciousness. This is the second such incident at this school, and there was a similar attack at a girls high school further north. The Taliban have been known to attack girls schools, including injuring or killing students with gunfire, explosives and, in at least one case, acid thrown into the faces of students. Now it appears that poison gas has been added to the Taliban arsenal.
Please keep the families and friends of our brave men and women in your thoughts and prayers.
UPDATE: (Sunday PM) I am still waiting to hear back from my contacts on this story. I will definitely update when I have more information.
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Cj_thespook commented:
ughhh Please tell me where in Afghanistan? My husband is at Fort Eggers and I spook to him earlier and he didn’t mention a thing. Is there any more information and if so please link. THanks so much.
Cj
Ginger commented:
Bring our love ones home NOW!
CDR M commented:
Source?
K~Bob commented:
Great. There weren’t supposed to be any WMD in that region. That’s what Michael Moore told us.
dsm commented:
@K~Bob,
No “WMD in that region”? Pakistan got the bomb in the 90′s. The US may want to keep this sort of thing on the down low so things don’t escalate to a nuclear exchange.
Anyone know if we’ve got battlefield nukes in Af-Pak?
Marsh commented:
What goes around comes around. If they are indeed using bio-chem weapons against us then we should use them as well.
Marsh commented:
@Ginger
STFU.
Signed,
Everyone.
Jim Hoft commented:
CJ- The families were notified.
bitterclinger commented:
And we’ll expect Zero to look into it after the Memorial Day holiday, a day or two back to get his bearings, a couple rounds of golf, a photo-op with a national b-ball team and a few more brainstorming sessions on new bills designed to further the demise of the US.
Prayers for all those involved.
Opaobie commented:
Hillary Clinton, call your office. Now what was that you were saying about the U.S. won’t use nukes unless…….?
Cj_thespook commented:
Jim, do you know what area or base? We have other friends in the area as well It’s 6:45 am in Kabul, I’ll shoot my husband an email and see what he knows and if he can talk about it.
jonyjoe101 commented:
re : What goes around comes around. If they are indeed using bio-chem weapons against us then we should use them as well.
Not going to happen with “obama” at the helm. Right now he’s more concern with immigration rights. The only military discussion he wants is concerning repealing “don’t ask don’t tell”.
unseen commented:
This is a direct result of Obama’s change in ROE. for years no country would even think about a chemical or biological attack on US soldiers because they rightly feared that the USA would respond with nuclear weapons or a devestating attack. Now Obama told the world that he would not nuke them if chemical or biological weapons were used. Not more then 2 months later chemical and/or biological attacks are used against us.
the blood of those soldiers are on Obama’s hands. I hope he can never wash them clean.
the man is a disgrace to the office and to this country.
shibumi commented:
How long before Obama apologies for having soldiers in the area that breathed in the chemicals? Because everything is our fault you know…
/sarc
Opaobie commented:
This puts Hillary “we will never respond with nukes to any attack” Clinton in a pickle, doesn’t it? Hey, Obama, “Plug the D#&# WMD Hole!”
PJ commented:
I think it’s high time for something a little stronger than “restraint.”
Inter Ruption commented:
Time to send the B-2s into Pakistan.
Major J commented:
With no disrespect to Gateway Pundit, is there a source to validate any of this? I’m currently in Afghanistan and I have zero…repeat…zero reports on this. I would appreciate any additional information that would substantiate this report. Thanks.
Andreas K. commented:
Hmm, maybe the Talis have decided to go “big” with their chemical attacks?
They’ve been attacking women with acid for years.
I still think all forces should pull out of A-stan and then let the B-52s go at it.
AvantiBev commented:
Excuse me gentlemen. I do pray for our troops. But those stories about the girls’ schools being such a threat to the big, brave mujahdeen makes this gal believe that the misogynistic “prophet’s” teachings and “allah’s revelations” are the REAL weapons of mass destruction; a 1400 year old destruction of billions of lives – half of them women. When you and the media say WMD you are looking for a thing; it’s in reality an IDEOLOGY.
Ed commented:
Major J , Please sift through Intel and email Jim.
Chris commented:
A 20 megaton airburst over the tribal areas of northern Pakistan would probably eliminate the immediate threat. That and a warning of what else is to come.
Z commented:
This is a pretty outrageous claim without sources or follow up. WTF over?
John commented:
You freakin idiots think that the POTUS makes ROE ??? That is area commanders joj.
Andreas K. commented:
AvantiBev
May 30th, 2010 | 8:07 am | #22
Couple of years ago the “religious police” in Saudi Arabia locked the doors of a burning girls’ school so that the girls couldn’t get out because they weren’t veiled. The girls died.
Islam is the problem. Not “radical” islam, not “moderate” islam. Radical islam does not exist. Moderate islam does not exist. Islamists do not exist. Islam is islam and it’s the root of the problem.
Chisum commented:
You freakin idiots think that the POTUS makes ROE ??? That is area commanders joj.
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Really?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_u935ECKNWXpLK8C5D96pdN
attack commented:
i have a distinct memory of a video tape captured after we overran kabul. it show an al queda experiment with a home made nerve gas. a gangly yellow puppy was tied in a mud brick room. the agent was released. and he died a horrible twitching death over several minutes.
might have been on nightline. i’ve tried to find it online. but can’t so far.
Major J commented:
Were any sources ever provided with this article? I discussed the issue with my intel leads and none of them have ANY insight or information on this reported attack. Again, no disrespect to Gateway Pundit, but I would strongly recommend ensuring the source is legit before launching a statement of this nature. My own opinion and recommendation. Otherwise, many thanks for a great blog and strong support for the troops.
River Warrior commented:
Nothing surprises me with those backwards goat-f…ers – be they Towel-e-ban, Eye-rackies, I-rainy-ans, A-Rabbs or Sear-e-ans … they are all of the same ilk: is-LAME.
To them a fart is a breath of fresh air. Drinking our clean water would kill them. Toilet paper is unheard of (this is why they don’t shake hands with their left hand). Sandstorms are considered showers without soap.
It’s time to air drop pork entrails (from packing plants). A huge stampede of wild pigs through their towns and camps – that would be amusing.
And the only food we should give prisoners is ham sandwiches (with clean water) – hold the maggots … no dessert!