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Rebels Report Chemical Attack Near Damascus
[Ynet] Syrian opposition claims chemical weapons used in army assault on town near capital, post videos of victims
Video can be seen at link -- as usual, click on the article title. I've posted this on page 2 because it is a report from the rebels, which means it might as easily be a lie as the truth, and I'm not clever enough to distinguish which it might be.
Bashir al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in an assault on Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Al-Arabiya reported Monday. Quoting Syrian opposition sources, the report said that many were hurt in the strike but this could not be confirmed by other sources. Videos supposedly documenting the victims receiving medical care were posted on the internet.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed his rosco...
 Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
 reported that dozens were maimed in a Syrian army attack on the cities of Adra and Douma. Some 30 Syrians injured in the attack on Adra are being treated for respiratory problems in a field hospital.

Last week, the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
 announced that Syria will allow UN inspectors to visit three sites in the country to check suspected use of chemical weapons by both army forces and rebels. A UN delegation met with Syrian officials two weeks ago.


Also Monday, Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
 said in a report that the Syrian military is firing ballistic missiles into populated areas where it is battling rebels, killing hundreds of civilians in recent months.

The U.S.-based group said it has investigated nine apparent missile attacks that killed at least 215 people, half of them children, between February and July. The most recent attack HRW investigated occurred in the northern province of Aleppo on July 26, killing at least 33 civilians including 17 children.

HRW activists visited the sites of seven of the nine attacks and found no apparent military targets nearby, the group said. Ole Solvang, a senior researcher with HRW, said it's impossible to distinguish between civilians and fighters when firing missiles with wide-ranging destructive effects into densely populated areas.

"Even if there are fighters in the area, you cannot accurately target them and the impact in some of these cases has been devastating to local civilians," Solvang said in a statement.

The HRW called on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
 to stop indiscriminate attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-08-06
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