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syria chemical weapons problem.

Steve

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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?
 

Steve

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hypocritexposer said:
would those be the chemical weapons that were snuck out of Iraq?

that might explain Obama's reluctance to get involved in any form in Syria...

If – and many of us believe when – the Assad regime decides to use these bio-chemical weapons; these WMD, against the rebels, and if the spent shells are found to possess Iraqi markings of manufacture, anti-war Democrats and Progressives here in the United States will have been complicit in what is tantamount to genocide, and all in pursuit of political gain; all so they could arrogantly chant “Bush lied and people died.”

But such is the nature of the Progressive Movement. It seldom considers the repercussions of advancing their agenda at all cost. This time, so as to be able to demonize a sitting president politically, they may have ignored the arming of a tyrant who, today, may very well use WMD attained from another tyrant, against his own people,

now that they are getting used by the rebels.. it could be a bit embarrassing for Obama's legacy...

one way to solve it... .. no fly zone,.. and US bombs all the weapons depots... and Obama is media hero again...
 

Steve

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'Suffocating in the streets': Chemical weapons attack reported in Syria

By Ian Johnston, Charlene Gubash and Ammar Cheikomar, NBC News

A chemical weapon was used during fierce fighting in a strategically important Syrian town, rebels and the government claimed Tuesday, with each side blaming the other for the deadly attack.

If it is confirmed that a banned chemical agent was used, it could significantly change the international response to the ongoing civil war.

The death toll was put at 25 by Syria’s state-run SANA news agency, which said dozens of other people were injured.

A photographer for the Reuters news agency visited hospitals in the city of Aleppo, and said a number of patients had breathing difficulties. They told him of people dying and “suffocating in the streets.”

The Reuters photographer said victims he had visited in Aleppo hospitals were "mostly women and children."

"They said that people were suffocating in the streets and the air smelt strongly of chlorine," said the photographer, who Reuters said cannot be named for his own safety.

'Convulsions, then death'

“the substance in the rocket causes unconsciousness, then convulsions, then death,” Reuters reported.

There was “a state of panic and fear among the civilians and dozens of cases of suffocating and poisoning,” he said.


Abhorrent'
The U.K., which recently announced it was sending armored vehicles to the rebel forces, warned Tuesday that if the use of chemical weapons was confirmed it would change its approach.

“We are aware of today’s press reports alleging that a chemical weapon was fired in the north of Syria and we are looking into this,” a spokesman for the U.K. Foreign Office said.
 

Steve

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Al Jazeera quoted a medic in the area, who said that the victims, among them government troops, were exposed to organic pesticides, not chemical weapons in Tuesday’s attack. “Victims spoke of pungent smell. Chemical weapons are usually odourless. Moreover, the number of deaths is small compared to those who would have died had chemical weapons been used,” the medic said.

pesticides.. a poor terrorists chemical weapon... seems logical and explains why so few were effected..
 

hypocritexposer

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It might also be, that the Barry administration is fabricating a lie, so as they can go to war, with a Country... that doesn't have chemical weapons, given to them by another Country that never had chemical weapons.

:wink:
 
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