Posted on 10/08/2006 4:40:30 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of Iraqi policemen fell sick from poisoning Sunday at a base in southern Iraq after the evening meal breaking their daily Ramadan fast, and officials said they were investigating whether the poisoning was intentional.
An official with the Environment Ministry said 11 policemen had died. However, the governor of Wasit province — where the poisoning took place — denied any deaths, though he said some of the victims were in critical condition. There was no immediate explanation for the contradictory reports.
Some of the policemen began bleeding from the ears and nose after the meal, said Jassim al-Atwan, an inspector for the Environment Ministry, who was serving as a liaison in the investigation between the Health Ministry and the base, located in the town of Numaniyah.
"Hundreds of soldiers were poisoned after taking food and water in the iftar," Wasit Gov. Hamad al-Latif told the Associated Press, referring to the meal that breaks the sunrise-to-sunset fast during the Islamic holy month. "Investigations are under way to determine the cause."
Samples of the food and water were being tested "to determine the substance in them" and will be sent to Baghdad for further tests, al-Latif said.
Sunni insurgents who have targeted police and military forces with bombings and shootings have not been known to use poisoning as a weapon. But the suddenness and severity of the sickness raised speculation that the incident could be a new attack. The division is mainly made up of Shiites.
Between 600-700 policemen were affected to varying degrees, and 11 who had the heaviest amount of the food had died, al-Atwan told The Associated Press.
Some of the soldiers collapsed as soon as they stood up from them meal, others fell "one after the other" as they headed out to the yard in the base to line up in formation, al-Atwan said.
Iraqi ambulances and helicopters sent by the U.S. military rushed the policemen to hospitals in Numaniyah and the nearby city of Kut.
The afflicted policemen belonged to the 4th Division of the National Police, nicknamed the "Karrar" Division, after a title of Imam Ali, the most revered Shiite saint.
The division normally operates around the town of Salman Pak on the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad — an area of intense Shiite-Sunni killings. The division was sent to the base in Numaniyah, 60 miles southeast of the capital, for further training.
Al-Latif said food and water at the base are provided by an Australian contractor working through Iraqi subcontractors. He did not identify the Australian firm.
OMG!!! NOTHING is sacred for these BARBARIAN!!
"Some of the policemen began bleeding from the ears and nose after the meal,"
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Weaponized ebola?
I found it causes such symptoms, but I didn't think it acts so quickly.
This dude kinoxi (.) doesn't get it... most of us do, but KINOXI doesn't
Just a thought, what would yellow-cake do if it was injested in enough quanity?
muslims, well, devout muslims wouldn't eat oysters. they ripped off the kosher dietary laws and oysters qualify as shellfish.
The uranium type or granma's favorite yellow cake?
Ya know, in a way I think the Foley Follies could be beneficial. We lost 20 soldiers in the last week or so, to snipers I think, it's kind of hard to tell from the sketchy news reports. Now this. The macacas would be trying to make big time hay out of this if they weren't so fixated on Foley, the Fag from Florida, as the sex pages so fondly called him.
Does anyone know the customs....after the time is up that they cannot eat anything....do they have a drink of water, or do they drink something special.
Of course you can't believe everything you read in the press, but the mention of those who ate more had worse symptoms....
Let's say they all had this special drink, and then the more food they are it pushed it further into the bloodstream.
Or could be a cumulative effect of the more they ate, the more poison they got.
The uranium type.
OMG - this is a horrifying report.
It's not even really a flavor, it's like 'plain'. Warfarin is a medication used by people with clot problems. Seems like it would have had to be a really heavy dose to make that many people sick.
Feed it to them, completely, in totality, G. Don't hold anything back, IMO. Liquefy *it*, and if necessary, shoot them-up, IV style. Let the 'untermensch filth' die; not Our Boys. Dammit!
From what little I have read, I think not from one exposure. And, if it had been exposure over time, you wouldn't think they would all show symptoms at the same time, and they would have felt very ill before they got to this point.
If we feed 100% of the tested food to the testers, what will our boys eat then? Pre-packaged in the States MREs? Or the testers themselves, who would taste even worse than MREs?
Bleeding at the ears? Sounds like nerve gas.
. I just can't find anything that indicates that overdoses of warfarin can result in sudden onset of serious bleeding.
I take warfarin. It takes awhile to build up to a desired level. A massive dose probably wouldn't do much immediately except perhaps induce vomiting. The drug wouldn't be an efficient way to poison hundreds as the dosage required would be massive and probably wouldn't work.
Some of this policemen fell over immediately after getting up from the meal.
Warfaren (coumidin) whis is rat poison indeed.
I will go farther and blame the USA DEMOCRATIC PARTY and the MSM for thier total lack of support from the begining of this war. If it wern't for them this war would have been over by now. They the DEMOCRATS and the MSM are responsible for all this bs.
What you said. Our soldiers are dying every day because of democrat policies and positions.
Yeah, that's what we were pondering.
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