File talk:Al-Sukari chlorine barrel bomb.jpg

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I'm still not the best at this, but this all looks strange. Was all this collected from the crime scene and then brought to this one spot? This of course wrecks investigations off the bat - it's harder to determine what angle (should be 90) the bomb or projectile came in at, for example. I could see this being hurled by a locally-made catapult, for example.

That's a smashed windshield from perhaps a truck laid out behind. Implied: the bomb or part of it smashed into a truck's windshield.

The casing ("barrel") split so nicely I suspect that's what it was meant to do. It was probably heavy, either from falling from really high up, or being really loaded, or both. Weights: those discs on the left seem pointless otherwise - maybe pipes, filled with some clay-concrete material, then cut in slices? That would add some heft, could mimic lots of gravity.

Any sign of blast damage on this metal? Any sign of chlorine exposure? (what would that be? with water involved, should corrode the metal). Most of it looks pristine. New material, reflective in spots.

The chlorine: was apparently in these (20 liter?) gas cylinders. The color of the residue around the hole on the left one is very similar to chlorine, maybe just right. Does it leave deposits like that? If so, I suppose this is a good way to show chlorine was released in the area.

Did the others release any? --Caustic Logic (talk) 07:01, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Barrel does not look like blasted (FWIW). (If anything, it looks as if they just brought that thing there, FWIW; or whatever the story might be). Possibly detonating cord around cylinders, but hard to be certain exactly what that is; some cord, let's say. --Resup (talk) 07:51, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey, not even that, I think. "Cord" looks stiff - I think it's a rough metal handle, soldered on weakly just below the tank seam. The one behind has the same. The one on the left has no handle, but four anchor spots of solder there. I'd say the deformity means it traveled - dropped or a tall roof at least, maybe landed on something a few feet wide in the middle, and didn't explode at all. --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:04, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

There is a crater on the street right next to the pickup truck. This could be the result of the barrel bumping to the ground. There is also some burn or blast damage to the pickup. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:30, 13 September 2016 (UTC)