Yemen Protests: Doctors Claim Prohibited Nerve Gas Used On Demonstrators

GlobalPost:

SANAA, Yemen -- Doctors from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen's capital Tuesday night said that what was originally thought to be tear gas fired by government forces on demonstrators might instead have been a form of nerve gas, which is forbidden under international law.

Military personnel opened fire and used what was originally assumed to be tear gas to disperse a group of demonstrators who were trying to bring additional tents into the protest area outside Sanaa University.

According to witnesses, the soldiers fired warning shots into the air before shooting gas -- and in some cases live bullets -- into the crowd, killing one and injuring at least 50

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Comments

[ardentapathy]

08:09 PM on 03/10/2011

This stuff has been out of circulation for quite awhile now. It is concerning that countries could potentially have access to this stuff.

[ShaneOToole]

06:41 PM on 03/10/2011

If this is true, it goes way beyond disgusting. I hope the UN investigates.

[KIVPossum]

05:05 PM on 03/10/2011

Where did they get it? From us?

[Amryxx]

04:24 PM on 03/10/2011

Any word on what sort of gas used? I wonder if the cops using it knew what it was.

[PerotVentuSheehCarte]

11:39 AM on 03/10/2011

Bahrain too?

[levresamant]

11:35 AM on 03/10/2011

WMD's? Blow em to hell right? Why not? War profiteering will never leave our budget.

[cornel]

11:17 AM on 03/10/2011

"The material in this gas makes people convulse for hours. It paralyzes them. They couldn't move at all. We tried to give them oxygen, but it didn't work," said Amaar Nujaim, a field doctor who works for Islamic Relief.
"We are seeing symptoms in the patient's nerves, not in their respiratory systems. I'm 90 percent sure it's nerve gas, and not tear gas, that was used," said Sami Zaid, a doctor at the Science and Technology Hospital in Sanaa.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11069/1130973-82.stm

[Erewhon7]

11:09 AM on 03/10/2011

Arab-on-Arab crimes. And the usual tunnel- vision Dhimmi " ....but...but Americans" idoitic nonsense.
You'd think this is some kind of Jihadist website.

[Deparis]

11:17 AM on 03/10/2011

What a nonsense! Maybe you should be reporting back to good ol' Peter King, the Muslim hunting Congressman from New York about huffpost breading Jihadists?

[Amryxx]

04:21 PM on 03/10/2011

Oh, don't bother. Erewhon likes to use words he don't understand to strengthen his xenophobic credentials. Listening to him, you'd think the Muslims are poised to take over the world like LotR.

[Deparis]

11:00 AM on 03/10/2011

Probably the nerve gas we supplied Mr. Saleh with to fight Al Qaeda and he is now using it against University students.

[cornel]

11:19 AM on 03/10/2011

Now that this event goes unpunished, Qaddafi will be motivated to do the same !

[farmilyman]

10:55 AM on 03/10/2011

.........and who sold it to them?

[cornel]

10:48 AM on 03/10/2011

I just hope that the nerve gas canisters that will be found, will not show made in the USA or Israel !

[Deparis]

11:02 AM on 03/10/2011

I bet you 50 green backs that they are original Made in USA.

[cornel]

11:08 AM on 03/10/2011

You might be right -> http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6383

[admiralsonasongbird]

09:39 AM on 03/10/2011

yamen is one of U.S allies surprisingly the obama adminstration and Europe have not called for his removed since he ki-lled more protestors than gaddafi.
 
oh yamen don't have oil...so why bother.

[Deparis]

11:04 AM on 03/10/2011

And Saleh is fighting our "war on terror." Remember the infamous "with us or against us"? You would be kidding yourself if you think it is done with under Obushma.

[RonK Michigan]

08:45 AM on 03/10/2011

OMG! WMD's! - Where's Bushie poo when you need him??????
Let's go! We can fund it using the extra cash we're getting from eliminating heat subsidies from old people on minimum Social Security..........
Grab your pitchforks and torches.....

Ronk’s Steven Wright Quote Du-Jour:
“If going to church makes you a Christian, then standing in a garage makes you a car”

[david5000]

02:21 AM on 03/10/2011

I recommend laughing gas , they'll have a happy crowd singing and partying instead of all this violence.

I don't know who runs the show against demonstrators, but he is not very creative.

[Erewhon7]

12:13 AM on 03/10/2011

Typically primitive thread-- Arab-on Arab alleged crime.
The usual suspect whine about U.S.

[Deparis]

11:10 AM on 03/10/2011

What do you think or expect dictators to with the arms and WMDs we give them, only parade them in front of their people during big military celebrations and return them in a museum thereafter? We are as guilty of the crimes as the persons giving the order to shoot and the shooters themselves.

[SGTDBK]

01:01 PM on 03/10/2011

"We are as guilty of the crimes as the persons giving the order to shoot and the shooters themselves­."

By this arguement Wal-Mart needs to be charged with about 10,000 murders from selling fire arms to civilians in the US.