White House: No proof Syrian rebels used chemicals
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday there's "no evidence" that Syrian rebels have used chemical weapons.
The Obama administration weighed in as rebels and Syrian President Bashar Assad's government traded accusations Tuesday that the other side has deployed chemical weapons in the ongoing civil war that has left 70,000 dead.
Carney noted that there isn't any evidence that Syrian opposition fighters have used chemical weapons. He also warned Assad not to use the reports as "pretext" to launch a chemical attack and reiterated President Obama's suggestion that use of chemical weapons would spur action by the U.S.
Do you believe him?
Syria's state-run news agency reported Tuesday that rebels used chemical weapons in an attack in northern Aleppo province that killed 25 people. The Russian Foreign Ministry, which has backed Assad, also backed the assertion and called the rebel use of chemical weapons an "extremely dangerous" development, according to the Associated Press.
or do you believe them?
A photographer working for Reuters in Aleppo reported that the witnesses of the attack complain of a strong smell of chlorine near the epicenter of the attack. Reportedly, people had breathing problems and some of them died of suffocation.
"They said that people were suffocating in the streets and the air smelt strongly of chlorine,” the photographer said, stressing that most of the victims he saw while visiting the University of Aleppo hospital and the al-Rajaa hospital were women and children.
"People were dying in the streets and in their houses," he said by phone.
what about this guy?.. is he credible?