Bill
09-24-2007, 01:02 AM
An intrigueing new turn in the tactics of attrition in a police state.
Cholera - we got them iraqis on the run.
We can't allow chlorine, see - gas attacks - so we can't allow the iraqis to purify civic water.
So they got 1600 new cases of diagnosed cholera now. Iraq's last outbreak was in 99, article says - 20 cases.
They used to call cholera the "slayer of armies", because it killed more soldiers than swords did.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20940954/
"Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, said a shipment of chlorine had crossed the border from Jordan after concerns were raised about shortages of the chemical needed to prevent an outbreak of cholera from spreading.
Officials said earlier that as much as 100,000 tons of chlorine was being held up at the border for fear it would be hijacked and used in explosives. Several chlorine truck bombs blamed on suspected Sunni insurgents earlier this year killed scores of people.
Naeem al-Qabi, the deputy chief of Baghdad’s municipal council, said warehouses in the capital were preparing to accept the chlorine, which would help purify water supplies.
“There is some administrative work needed to be done and it will be finished very soon,” al-Qabi said.
Iraq now has a total of 1,652 confirmed cases of cholera after three new cases were confirmed in Salahuddin province, according to an update on the World Health Organization’s Web site on Sunday. Earlier, cholera was confirmed in the provinces of Sulaimaniyah, Tamim and Irbil, as well as a case each in Baghdad and in Basra.
“As the weather cools and becomes more favorable for transmission, the organism is expected to spread to other provinces,” the WHO’s country office in Iraq said on its Web site.
Cholera is endemic to Iraq, with about 30 cases registered each year. The last major outbreak was in 1999, when 20 cases were discovered in one day."
Iran was also accused of smuggling more weapons. So, get ready for more war. This should be funny as hell.
As funny as an iraqi dying from terminal explosive diarrhea and dehydration.
Cholera - we got them iraqis on the run.
We can't allow chlorine, see - gas attacks - so we can't allow the iraqis to purify civic water.
So they got 1600 new cases of diagnosed cholera now. Iraq's last outbreak was in 99, article says - 20 cases.
They used to call cholera the "slayer of armies", because it killed more soldiers than swords did.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20940954/
"Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, said a shipment of chlorine had crossed the border from Jordan after concerns were raised about shortages of the chemical needed to prevent an outbreak of cholera from spreading.
Officials said earlier that as much as 100,000 tons of chlorine was being held up at the border for fear it would be hijacked and used in explosives. Several chlorine truck bombs blamed on suspected Sunni insurgents earlier this year killed scores of people.
Naeem al-Qabi, the deputy chief of Baghdad’s municipal council, said warehouses in the capital were preparing to accept the chlorine, which would help purify water supplies.
“There is some administrative work needed to be done and it will be finished very soon,” al-Qabi said.
Iraq now has a total of 1,652 confirmed cases of cholera after three new cases were confirmed in Salahuddin province, according to an update on the World Health Organization’s Web site on Sunday. Earlier, cholera was confirmed in the provinces of Sulaimaniyah, Tamim and Irbil, as well as a case each in Baghdad and in Basra.
“As the weather cools and becomes more favorable for transmission, the organism is expected to spread to other provinces,” the WHO’s country office in Iraq said on its Web site.
Cholera is endemic to Iraq, with about 30 cases registered each year. The last major outbreak was in 1999, when 20 cases were discovered in one day."
Iran was also accused of smuggling more weapons. So, get ready for more war. This should be funny as hell.
As funny as an iraqi dying from terminal explosive diarrhea and dehydration.