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Kerry Warns of 'Accountability' over 'Obscene' Chemical Attack in Syria
[An Nahar] The United States said Tuesday that chemical weapons had been used against Syrian civilians and warned President Barack Obama...I am not a dictator! would demand accountability for this "moral obscenity." Employing his strongest language yet, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Washington was still examining evidence, but left no doubt that Bashir al-Assad's regime would be blamed. "What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality," he said, in a televised statement from the State Department. "Let me be clear. The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and kiddies and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity," he said. "By any standard it is inexcusable, and despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable." Assad's government has denied carrying out last week's alleged chemical weapons strike on a civilian community near Damascus, which reportedly killed hundreds of people. But Kerry said that independent reports of an atrocity were credible and said that the United States would soon present more concrete evidence of its own. "Moreover, we know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of these chemical weapons. We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets," he said. "We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place. And with our own eyes, we have all of us become witnesses. "We have additional information about this attack, and that information is being compiled and reviewed together with our partners, and we will provide that information in the days ahead," he said. "Our sense of basic humanity is offended not only by this cowardly crime, but also by the cynical attempt to cover it up." Posted by: Fred 2013-08-27 |
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