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Iraqi Forces Foil Gas Attack in East

Date: 21 September 2014 - 21:25

News ID: ۵۳۷۴

BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Iraqi forces have foiled a poisonous gas attack by the ISIL terrorists in residential areas of an eastern province, an Iraqi lawmaker says.
Lawmaker Foral al-Tamimi said on Saturday that the army forces dismantled seven rockets filled with chlorine gas in the Diyala province.
The rockets had reportedly been prepared to be launched against civilian compounds in the city of Muqdadiyah.
In July, Iraq warned that the Takfiri terrorists have taken control of a huge former chemical weapons facility northwest of the capital Baghdad.
In a letter distributed at the UN on July 8, Iraq said remnants of 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin are kept in the facility along with other chemical warfare agents. On June 12, the site’s surveillance system showed that some equipment had been looted.
The Takfiri terrorists currently control parts of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Izadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
The terrorist group has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.
Meanwhile, Kobani (also Ayn al-Arab) Kurdish region in Northern Syria has been beset with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the last two years and it has been under siege by the terrorist group during the last 18 months; but now they might be massacred in thousands any moment.
The terrorist organization has laid a siege to the town one and a half years ago and isolated it from the outside world. Before that, Turkey had shut the border checkpoints for emergency supplies to the population.
On 15 September, ISIL started a major assault against Kobani with heavy weaponry – including tanks – and managed to gain ample terrain. Current reports speak of massacres of civilians and hijackings of young women and girls.
Reports in the last two days said Turkey has accepted around 4,000 of the Kobani Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children.
The Kurdish population in Northern Iraq and Northern Syria said Turkey should stop its backhanded support for the ISIL, and close its borders to the terrorist group.