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• n  a bomb laden with chemical agents that are released when the bomb explodes

• gas bomb

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• Syria chemical attack reopens old wounds among Kurds
  By Isabel Coles HALABJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A sweet smell, like that of apples, wafted through the air. In a field, a cow's eyes began to stream. A bird fell from the sky, its feathers singed, and people's mouths began to fill with ulcers. At least 5,000 people were gassed to death that spring day in 1988 when the Iraqi air force dropped chemical bombs on the town of Halabja in the country's ...
  Oct. 4, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News