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Russia questions chemical arms proof
Of course they do. It's all part of the game to stall any Western intervention on the part of the Sunnis in the proxy war...
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister said on Saturday that the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesn’t meet stringent criteria for reliability.

The Obama administration said this week that it will give lethal aid to Syrian rebels in light of evidence that President Bashar Assad’s forces used chemical weapons in the country’s civil war.

In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the material does not include guarantees that it meets the requirements of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He said the organisation specifies that samples taken from blood, urine and clothing can be considered reliable evidence only if supervised by organisation experts from the time they are taken up to delivery to a laboratory.
Technically true enough, and one could argue that the rebels could fake it. Then again, Pencilneck's daddy used chemical weapons on his people so it isn't a big stretch to think that it could happen again...
The OPCW is the autonomous body for implementing the international Chemical Weapons Convention that went into effect in 1997. Its website says Syria is one of six countries that have not signed or acceded to the convention. A spokesman for the organisation, based in The Hague, Netherlands, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Lavrov, after meeting his Italian counterpart Emma Bonino, scoffed at suggestions that Assad’s regime would use chemical weapons now in light of its apparent growing advantage against the rebels.

“The regime doesn’t have its back to the wall. What would be the sense of the regime using chemical weapons, moreover at such a small quantity?” he said.
Posted by: Steve White 2013-06-16
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