Up to 130 (Iraqi) soldiers poisoned in northern Iraq

[sabra]

Source: chinaview

MOSUL, Iraq, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Up to 130 Iraqi soldiers were poisoned by food in a military base in northern Iraq on Friday, provincial police said.

The soldiers were poisoned in the morning after they took theirmail in Hamam al-Alil training center, some 30 km south of Mosul, a police source from the Nineveh province told Xinhua on conditionof anonymity.

The source said that hospitals in Mosul City received more than70 soldiers for treatment and that ambulances were continuing bringing more soldiers.

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Mosul, Apr. 20, (VOI) - The 130 Iraqi army soldiers reported poisoned on Friday felt sick after having a bad meal prepared by a foreign company, the commander of Hammam al-Aleel training center in Ninawa province said.

"The bad meal contained chicken prepared by a foreign company the army has signed a contract with for the purpose," Lt. Colonel Abdullah al-Zibari told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI), not identifying the name or nationality of this company.

A police source earlier told VOI "the police was tipped that unidentified gunmen had recently purchased large amounts of toxic insecticides," adding "seventy soldiers have already been taken to a hospital in Mosul while ambulances rushed to bring the rest."

Meanwhile, medical sources complained of lack of Flagyl, a kind of antiseptic that fights microbes, at the city's hospital.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. For some reason I assumed

it was gonna be American troops poisoned by the dog food KBR fed them.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. That's what I thought too.

I don't believe they destroyed the recalled pet food.

[OhioChick]

2. Who was the "Foreign" Company?

From China, by any chance?

[bemildred]

4. Now there is a "chemical weapon" to reckon with. nt

[Ganja Ninja]

5. A bad case of Cheney's revenge.

:hurts:

[Mira]

6. You're cracking me up, Sentinel Chicken N/T