Talk:Gas in Mesopotamia

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My grandparents are from a village in Iraq where poison gas was dropped by the British in the twenties. They are from a village in Iraq close to the Syrian border (they were Arabs, not Kurds).

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Alawi (talk • contribs) 04:00, 30 December 2006

[edit] Title & quality

The title of article should be changed not to suggest it is about gas deposits in Mesopotamia. The article should be structured chronologically - modern opinions being put at the end. Context - the 1920s uprisings in Iraq - is completely missing.

About being the first to use gas from airplanes: in 1920 or around a group of Soviet soldiers made an expedition into Afghanistan and during a siege of a border fortress they called (by radio) a bomber which dropped also chemical bombs. I do not have reference at hand and Wikipedia does not cover this period at by more than a sentence. Pavel Vozenilek 11:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)