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- Kerry Wilson
dsec1@yahoo.com
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- Just wanted to say that I like the website, but you have
one story completely wrong. The resistance did not attack Balad Air Base
in Iraq with chemical weapons. I know because I live and work here. We
get mortars frequently, but 98% of the time they're off target and hit
in open areas. Iraqis aren't very good shots with mortars nor AK's. Anyway,
just wanted to x the bad story.
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- The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported last
night that exclusive sources had reported details regarding chemical attacks
on the US base in the town of Balad that inflicted heavy losses in men
and material in the American camp there.
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- Iraqi Resistance forces fired Katyusha rockets and mortars
at the US base in the town of Balad, north of Baghdad on Tuesday. The US
base in Balad is one of the main American occupation facilities in Iraq.
Yhe Resistance began an intermittent barrage on the base at 6:00am and
that mortars and rockets were still being fired at the base from all directions
now and again up until the time he filed his report.
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- According to the correspondent, the exclusive sources
reported that tactical chemical rockets struck the US camp in such large
numbers that two large Black Hawk helicopters made five trips each to transport
the dead and wounded to hospital. Each helicopter reportedly has a capacity
of eight to 10 wounded at one time. The dead could be loaded in larger
quantities, of course. US troops prevented Iraqi employees from gaining
access to the camp after the attack.
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- The correspondent wrote that the Resistance employs tactical
chemical weapons in specific circumstances when the air is stagnant,
or when the wind is blowing away from population centers. US troops often
locate their bases to the north of cities to prevent chemical weapons from
being used against them, lest the prevailing northerly winds carry the
toxins to the populated areas.
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- Nevertheless tactical chemical weapons have been used
on several US bases, including the base in the heights north of al-Khalidiyah,
the US base north of ar-Ramadi, and the US base in Mosul.
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