Reuters reported yesterday that Three suicide bombers driving trucks rigged with tanks of toxic chlorine gas struck targets in heavily Sunni Anbar province including the office of a Sunni tribal leader opposed to al-Qaida. The attacks killed at least two people and sickened 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops, the U.S. military said Saturday.A few hours later, another truck with chlorine exploded in Amiriyah, south of Fallujah, killing two policemen and leaving about 100 others with minor skin and lung irritations and vomiting.Use of chlorine gas by the jihadists is not about using an industrial chemical of opportunity.  Chlorine is actually the grandfather of chemical weapons having been first used  by the Germans in World War I at Ypres. Almost immediately after the shells burst, French and Algerian soldiers' respiratory organs were incapacitated or destroyed resulting in severe choking attacks and for some, an agonizing...(Read Full Post)