'US-made gas used against Yemenis'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Pres TV

The US has provided Yemeni police with gas canisters which have been used against anti-government protesters in capital Sana'a, local sources say.

Police have reportedly used nerve gas to quell peaceful protests in Sana'a's University Square. The empty canisters obtained by the locals bear the “Made in U.S.A.” stamp.

Sources say the canisters were a “gift” to the Yemeni police from the United States.

The protesters, who demand an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule, have been camping out in the square since February 21.



Read more: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/169592.html

[Imajika]

1. Nerve gas?

Probably just tear gas or some other crowd dispersant used by riot police the world over.

Iranian state media really should do a better job with their propaganda.

[dipsydoodle]

5. NOT tear gas according to this

SANAA, Yemen — Doctors from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen’s capital Tuesday night said that what was originally thought to be tear gas fired by government forces on demonstrators might instead have been a form of nerve gas, which is forbidden under international law.

Military personnel opened fire and used what was originally assumed to be tear gas to disperse a group of demonstrators who were trying to bring additional tents into the protest area outside Sanaa University.

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“The material in this gas makes people convulse for hours. It paralyzes them. They couldn’t move at all. We tried to give them oxygen but it didn’t work,” said Amaar Nujaim, a field doctor who works for Islamic Relief.

“We are seeing symptoms in the patient’s nerves, not in their respiratory systems. I’m 90 percent sure its nerve gas and not tear gas that was used,” said Sami Zaid, a doctor at the Science and Technology Hospital in Sanaa.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/110309/yemen-violence-protests-sanaa-nerve-gas

[Demeter]

6. JHC!

I sure hope it was a Bush gift,not Obama or Clinton.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. Can not be correct...

[Turborama]

15. Why? Because you say say so?

Yemen police storm protest site

At least three people killed and more than 300 injured as security forces disperse pro-democracy protesters.
Last Modified: March 12 2011 19:15 GMT

At least two people have been killed and more than 300 injured after Yemen security forces stormed a protest site where thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have been camped out for weeks, demanding the ouster of the country's leader.

In a pre-dawn raid on Saturday, police are said to have used tear gas and hot water mixed with gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Meanwhile, a teenage boy was killed in separate clashes between security forces and protesters in the city of Mukala.

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from the capital Sanaa, said that the situation remains tense, and that the opposition is accusing the government of committing crimes against the protesters.

More (including video report which includes footage of casualties of the gas): http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201131232754852902.html

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. No, it is BFO because the body count is wrong

Nerve agents kill everyone they touch and the lethal dose in minuscule. No one was in MOPP suits. With only a couple of dead, it could not have been nerve agents.

For anyone who understands the technology, it is BFO that the story is wrong. I also posted a report from another source that it was tear gas.

AJE got this one wrong...

[KansDem]

2. Didn't Saddam "gas his own people" with gas from the US?

I'm glad we're still making something here! :sarcasm:

edited for quotation marks

[louis-t]

3. Yes, he did, ever'body knows them Kurds is Saddam's peeps.

Not.

[KansDem]

4. corrected...

[DissedByBush]

8. Home-made gas, but

He made it with chemicals acquired from many countries, including the US.

We did give him his anthrax though, but he never used it.

[bengalherder]

9. Yeah, and there's a DU'er (whose name eludes me)

Who thinks everything is A-OK because he still has his union job making war materiel.

He's pissed at Assange upsetting the applecart, and he's not fond of the revolutions...because it hurts HIS bizness.

Personally, I'm willing to hit bottom (30-year service employee here, proud of my non-hypocricsy) if it means arms manufacturers-and the people who shelve their consciousnesses for a paycheck-are out of work.

[fascisthunter]

13. right-fucking-on!

[DissedByBush]

7. Absolutely not nerve gas

One, they'd be dead.

Two, we never made small canister-dispersed nerve gas of the type polices forces might use.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. If they and the rescuers did not die immediately, it was not a nerve agent

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Alternative source...says it was tear gas

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4768089 cites Guardian UK

[fascisthunter]

14. This makes Certain Americans Proud

just think about that.

[Crowman1979]

18. Yeah, Lee Greenwood fans.

[oberliner]

16. Yemen police kill protesters in crackdown on dissent

Source: The Guardian

Yemeni security forces have killed four people and wounded hundreds more in the second day of a harsh crackdown on anti-government protests, witnesses said. One of the dead was a 15-year-old student.

The assault with gunfire and tear gas was the toughest yet by the government in a month of protests aimed at unseating the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for 32 years. An ally in the Obama administration's fight against al-Qaida, Saleh had appeared to be one of the Arab leaders most threatened by the regional unrest inspired by revolts in Egypt and Tunisia.

The violence began with a pre-dawn raid on a central square in the capital, Sana'a, where thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been camped out.

Eyewitnesses said security troops surrounded the square with police cars and armoured personnel carriers shortly after midnight and began calling on protesters through loudspeakers to go home. At 5am, security forces attacked, firing bullets and tear gas.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/12/yemen-police-kill-protesters-crackdown