The U.S. Department of Defense says local police intercepted a truck carrying 5,000 gallons of chlorine and 2 tons of explosives in Ramadi which would have been used against innocent civilians in Iraq.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Michael D. Barbero, Joint Staff deputy director for operations says that while the people of Iraq were lucky enough to stop that bombing, only days later two trucks carrying chlorine exploded in Fallujah, injuring 14 U.S. troops and 57 Iraqis.
The weapons were built by terrorists with al-Qaeda in Iraq and have been used as the latest tool to sabotage the efforts of the majority of Iraqis who are looking to find an end to the sectarian violence, says the Pentagon.
General Barbero explains, "I strongly believe that this use of chlorine should not be dismissed simply as a new tactic or an emerging trend."
"Chlorine is a poison gas being used on the Iraqi people. Before these attacks, the last time poison gas was used on the Iraqi people was by Saddam Hussein."
Furthermore, the U.S. says children are still being used as suicide bombers among other things; an act deplored by any civilized nation.
General Barbero says an Iraqi police officer was killed after his vehicle "drove past a 12-to 14-year-old boy riding a bicycle. A bomb in the boy's backpack detonated, killing him instantly."
"These acts - the use of poison gas and the use of children as weapons - are unacceptable in any civilized society and demonstrate the truly dishonorable nature of this enemy."
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