industryterm:chemical agents

Syrie: Macron a la “preuve” d’attaques chimiques - International - LeVif.be
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La France a « la preuve » que le régime syrien a utilisé des armes chimiques le 7 avril près de Damas, et prendra ses décisions en « temps voulu », en coordination avec les Etats-Unis, sur d’éventuelles frappes en représailles, a déclaré le président Emmanuel Macron.

Mais au même moment, Mattis...
“said the administration is still awaiting evidence that may depend on Syria allowing a team of inspectors into the country to survey the Damascus suburb where the alleged attack last weekend killed dozens, including children.

That process that could take days, and any findings will not determine who committed an attack, he said.”

▻https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/jim-mattis-us-still-waiting-on-evidence-of-syria-chemical-attack

#syrie

Iraqi officials : IS chemical attacks kill child, wound 600 - Business Insider
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U.S. and Iraqi officials said U.S. special forces captured the head of the IS unit trying to develop chemical weapons in a raid last month in northern Iraq.

The U.S.-led coalition said the chemicals IS has so far used include chlorine and a low-grade sulfur mustard which is not very potent. “It’s a legitimate threat. It’s not a high threat. We’re not, frankly, losing too much sleep over it,” U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters Friday.

Experts also say the extremist group appears incapable of launching a large-scale chemical weapons’ attack, which requires not only expertise, but also the proper equipment, materials and a supply-chain to produce enough of the chemical agent to pose a significant threat.

The coalition began targeting IS’ chemical weapons infrastructure with airstrikes and special operations raids two months ago, Iraqi intelligence officials and a Western security official in Baghdad told the AP.

Airstrikes are targeting laboratories and equipment, and further special forces raids targeting chemical weapons experts are planned, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

The extremist group is believed to have set up a special unit for chemical weapons research made up of Iraqi scientists who worked on weapons programs under Saddam Hussein as well as foreign experts.

The group is believed to have created limited amounts of mustard gas. Tests confirmed mustard gas was used in a town in Syria when IS was launching attacks there in August 2015. There have been other unverified reports of IS using chemical agents on battlefields in Syria and Iraq.

Bon à savoir : il y a chimique (qui franchit la ligne rouge) et chimique (qui n’empêche pas de dormir).
#We're_not_losing_too_much_sleep_over_it

Secret World War II Chemical Experiments Tested Troops By Race : NPR
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As a young U.S. Army soldier during World War II, Rollins Edwards knew better than to refuse an assignment.

When officers led him and a dozen others into a wooden gas chamber and locked the door, he didn’t complain. None of them did. Then, a mixture of mustard gas and a similar agent called lewisite was piped inside.

“It felt like you were on fire,” recalls Edwards, now 93 years old. “Guys started screaming and hollering and trying to break out. And then some of the guys fainted. And finally they opened the door and let us out, and the guys were just, they were in bad shape.”
About This Investigation

This is Part 1 of a two-part investigation on mustard gas testing conducted by the U.S. military during World War II. The second story in this report examines failures by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide benefits to those injured by military mustard gas experiments.
Three test subjects enter a gas chamber, which will fill with mustard gas, as part of the military’s secret chemical warfare testing in March 1945.
NPR News Investigations
The VA’s Broken Promise To Thousands Of Vets Exposed To Mustard Gas

Edwards was one of 60,000 enlisted men enrolled in a once-secret government program — formally declassified in 1993 — to test mustard gas and other chemical agents on American troops. But there was a specific reason he was chosen: Edwards is African-American.

احباط هجوم كيمياوي جديد لـ “الدولة الاسلامية” على البيشمركة على قضاء مخمور جنوب إقليم كردستان العراق | رأي اليوم
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Mise en échec d’une attaque chimique contre les Pechmergas à Maghmour, au sud du Kurdistan [irakien].

Les troupes de Bachar El-Assad sont déjà arrivées là ?

Ah non, c’est l’Etat islamique.

Mais ils ont des armes chimiques alors ?

Russian FM meets with Syrian opposition over peace talks
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/russian-fm-meets-syrian-opposition-over-peace-talks

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A handout picture released by the Cypriot Press and Information Office (PIO) shows Cypriot Foreign Affairs Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides visiting the Danish support vessel L17 “Esbern Snare”, one of the vessels deployed to bring #syria’s chemical agents to destruction, on February 3, 2014, outside the southern Cypriot coastal town of Larnaca. Danish and Norwegian vessels left the Cypriot port of Limassol on January 31, 2014 and headed towards Syria to escort a delayed shipment of chemical weapons for destruction, a spokesman said. (Photo: AFP / PIO - Stavros Ioannides)

Syria’s opposition leader met #Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to push its ally Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation. Meanwhile, (...)

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Nordic ships head to #syria for delayed chemical shipment
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Danish and Norwegian vessels left the Cypriot port of Limassol Friday and headed towards Syria to escort a delayed shipment of #chemical_weapons for destruction, a spokesman said to AFP. “The Norwegian-Danish task group to transport Syria’s chemical agents to destruction left the port of Limassol this morning,” said Norwegian armed forces spokesman Lars Magne Hovtun. “The four ships have now set a course toward a holding area in international water outside Syria, so we are most ready to enter the port of Latakia when the order arrives,” he added. read more

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Syria condemns rebels’ ’chemical weapon attack’ – video | World news | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/19/syria-rebels-chemical-video

Syria’s information minister, Omran al-Zoabi, says Syrian rebels fired rockets containing chemical agents on Tuesday. He says the attack breaches international law, and says President Bashar al-Assad’s forces would never use chemical weapons. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 26 people died in the attack near Aleppo, but the use of chemical weapons has not been confirmed

6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People (AlterNet)
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From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams to chemical agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting edge of crowd control. (...)