Poison cake kills Iraqi children (Thallium)

[uppityperson]

Source: BBC

The UK government has flown antidote medicine to the Middle East after some Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with the poison thallium.

Two of the victims, both children, died after eating cake delivered to a military club in Baghdad. Others are being treated in hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents. At least two of the poison victims, the secretary of the Iraqi air force club and his daughter, are critically ill in Amman. They and half-a-dozen other patients suffering from thallium poisoning were flown from Baghdad to Amman as the necessary treatments and antidotes were not available in Iraq.

Britain responded to a request for help from the World Health Organization and medication was flown out....(more)

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7237086.stm

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. There's a special room in hell

for people who murder children. :grr:

[daleo]

3. It had better be a big room

And politicians from all sorts of countries will be there.

[roody]

2. my propaganda detector went off

"It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents."

[uppityperson]

4. You mean you don't like mixing editorializing with news?

Me either. I wonder if that statement is true, and why it was put in there. Nasty thing to do no matter how it's reported though (poisoning).

[lynnertic]

5. 'they and half a dozen other patients from iraq'

hmmmm. Well the two countries border each other.

[dansolo]

6. Why are they downplaying who the real target was?

This was an assassination attempt. I'd like to know who was attending that party.