Poison cake kills Iraqi children

Islamist Muslims cheer as poison cake kills Iraqi children to open a new venue for jihad: thallium

Jim Muir with BBC News, Baghdad, reported Saturday, Feb. 9, on the British government’s announcement to fly antidote medicine to the Middle East after a poison jihad attack.

Several Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with thallium. Two victims, both of them children, died after eating the 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… An investigation is under way in Baghdad.

The affair remains shrouded in mystery. The manager of the air force club told the BBC he believed it was carried out by conspirators with a grudge against the club's administration. 

Thallium is a lethal poison, an ideal assassin's tool: tasteless and easy to administer. It has not surfaced since Hussein’s overthrow.

Its effects take some time to appear. It then causes a lingering and painful death. An antidote known as Prussian Blue can be effective if taken quickly.

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