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Islamic State Militants Allegedly Used Chlorine Gas Against Iraqi Security Forces

Islamic State Militants Allegedly Used Chlorine Gas Against Iraqi Security Forces
Charlotte Alfred
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World Reporter, The Huffington Post

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY W.G. DUNLOPIraqi policemen make their way on the rubble of a building targeted earlier this month by a jihadist attack in the town of Dhuluiyah, north of Baghdad, on September 17, 2014. Caught between Islamic State (IS) group militants and the Tigris River, residents of Dhuluiyah's Jubur area have taken up arms alongside security forces and held out for months. Jubur has not fallen to the jihadists, but they have still been able to strike inside it, including with suicide bombers driving American Humvee armoured vehicles they captured from the Iraqi military. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY W.G. DUNLOPIraqi policemen make their way on the rubble of a building targeted earlier this month by a jihadist attack in the town of Dhuluiyah, north of Baghdad, on September 17, 2014. Caught between Islamic State (IS) group militants and the Tigris River, residents of Dhuluiyah's Jubur area have taken up arms alongside security forces and held out for months. Jubur has not fallen to the jihadists, but they have still been able to strike inside it, including with suicide bombers driving American Humvee armoured vehicles they captured from the Iraqi military. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

BALAD, Iraq — 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 it, and doctors said survivors’ symptoms were consistent with chlorine poisoning.

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