Egyptian military using 'more dangerous' teargas on Tahrir Square protesters

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Doctors report seizures and convulsions as witnesses claim different crowd control teargas being used

Peter Beaumont and John Domokos | Wednesday November 23 2011 16.51 GMT

Egyptian security forces are believed to be using a powerful incapacitating gas against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square following multiple cases of unconsciousness and epileptic-like convulsions among those exposed.

The Guardian has collected video footage as well as witness accounts from doctors and victims who have offered strong evidence that at least two other crowd control gases have been used on demonstrators in addition to CS gas.

Suspicion has fallen on two other agents: CN gas, which was the crowd control gas used by the US before CS was brought into use; and CR gas.

Some protesters report having seen canisters marked with the letters "CR" – although the Guardian has not been able to confirm this independently.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/23/egyptian-military-teargas-tahrir-square

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More details and video at the link.

[krispos42]

1. Mayors Bloomberg and Quan seen nodding and taking notes n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Breaking: OWS protestors trampled by camels ... nt

[krispos42]

9. Well, camel spit would be preferable to pepper spray! n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

2. I am sure the president...

will have something to say about this.

[SheilaT]

3. I heard on Amy Goodman this morning

something about some protesters dying after being tear-gassed, and my first thought was, Isn't tear gas merely unpleasant, not fatal?

I would not put it at all past some of these governments to use lethal gas.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Yes, it can be fatal, especially in confined areas.

Wiki "tear gas".

[dipsydoodle]

4. "CR" ?

Its not CR its CS - Combined Systems. I can only suggest The Guardian switches their tv's on and watches France24 or even BBC or Sky come to that.

See also here :

According to the canister labels, the tear gas is produced by Combined Systems International of Jamestown, Pennsylvania. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/egypt-protest-police-us-made-tear-gas-demonstrators/story?id=12785598#.Ts04u1bDW4Y

[formercia]

5. CR Gas:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/CR_gas

Google it.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "CS" comes from the initials of its inventors ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas has links to the various types of tear gas.

[Wilms]

10. ^