Syria’s WMD
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Yes , i think we are all suffering from a case of dejavu. Assad like Saddam is accused of gassing his own people, (even though at the time of Saddam's atrocity the Americans tried to blame Iran)
You may miss it because it goes against the preferred “facts” the media like to publicise.
U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.
The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated. This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities" Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/05/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBRE94409Z20130505
Doctors in Turkey say initial tests of blood samples from victims of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria last month are negative for sarin gas. They tested the blood specifically for sarin gas — a nerve agent — and also ran regular bloodwork.
Chemical weapons have been used in the fighting. “But we couldn’t identify what the chemical was.” explained Dr. Ubada Alabrash, who treated the victims at Reyhanli hospital. It could have been tear gas or some other kind of generated smoke, normally used for riot control, some weapons experts said.
"British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday that the apparent Israeli air strikes on Syria showed that peace across the whole region was under threat, and reinforced the need to lift an arms embargo on Syrian rebels."Hmmm???.To make peace – make war.International law must be upheld…but we'll make an exception in Israel's case, they are free to bomb whoever they choose…as always.Rank hypocrisy but we don't expect anything less.
“a U.S. State Department official told CNN that the United States does not have information suggesting that rebels have "either the capability or the intent to deploy or use such weapons." Well, we can all easily understand why rebel forces may well use such weapons – to blame its use on the government forces and draw in more military support from the US and UK. The reason that makes the Syrian government unlikely to have deployed them is to avoid such intervention, (apart from their ineffectuality of their use in the type of conflict being waged in Syria.) But what about the question of capability? The most effective Syrian opposition group is widely considered to be al-Nusra Front. The U.S. State Department says that al-Nusra Front is a cover name for al Qaeda in Iraq which have actually used chemical weapons. Al Qaeda in Iraq detonated a series of chlorine bombs in Iraq from late 2006 through mid-2007. 16 of them, in fact.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/01/15/5488779/new-analysis-of-rocket-used-in.html?storylink=addthis#.Ute6sbgLS0s.twitter&rh=1 I won't hold my breath waiting for the BBC to lead with this story. "A team of security and arms experts, has concluded that the range of the rocket that delivered sarin in the largest attack that night was too short for the device to have been fired from the Syrian government positions where the Obama administration insists they originated". And despite the Western politicians including Cameron and Hague denials, the Syrian rebels had indeed the capability of producing such weaponry. The BBC would rather go with a story about how slow the Syrians and UN are dismantling of the chemical weapons. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25755767 I'm glad i'm not paying a TV license feeRead more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/01/15/5488779/new-analysis-of-rocket-used-in.html?storylink=addthis#.Ute6sbgLS0s.twitter&rh=1#storylink=cpy
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