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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia says Syria gas incident caused by rebels’ own chemical arsenal
2017-04-06
[Iraq News] Russia’s defense ministry said on Wednesday that a poisonous gas contamination in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was the result of gas leaking from a rebel chemical weapons depot after it was hit by Syrian government Arclight airstrikes.
On the other hand, no rebel chem weapons depots seem to have been hit in Iraq.
The United States has blamed the administration of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
 for the attack, in which scores of people are reported to have been killed.

"Yesterday, from 11:30 am to 12:30 p.m. local time, Syrian aviation made a strike on a large terrorist ammunition depot and a concentration of military hardware in the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun town," Russian defense ministry front man Igor Konoshenkov said in a statement posted on YouTube.

"On the territory of the depot there were workshops which produced chemical warfare munitions."

He said the chemical munitions had been used by rebels in Aleppo last year. "The poisoning symptoms of the victims in Khan Sheikhoun shown on videos in social networks are the same as they were in autumn of the previous year in Aleppo," Konoshenkov said.

Posted by:Fred

#9  Color me surprised.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-04-06 22:28  

#8  Shit just got real: I posted this as a breaking update but it's caught in the hopper/Mod version after 12AM EST
Posted by: Frank G   2017-04-06 21:42  

#7  Yeah, I hear sarin early on, but that seems to have faded away. Given how heinous the stuff is, you'd think they'd keep pounding that if there was evidence.

Scott Adams' take on the matter here. Why listen to a cartoonist? Because using what he calls a Persuasion Filter, he has been right about pretty much everything involving Trump and the media. It's been an entertaining read.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-04-06 20:39  

#6  Even Russia is back peddling from their support of Assad. Nobody of any importance believes it was anything other than Syria gassing its own people.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-04-06 20:03  

#5  #1 - word I read (somewhere) was Sarin
Posted by: Frank G   2017-04-06 15:24  

#4  how would we/anyone go about establishing culpability beyond a shadow of doubt?

And if we did, what would happen?
Somebody would point a finger, call them a bad name and shake their heads while working up a foreign aid loan.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-04-06 15:19  

#3  Shadow hell let's hear the reasonable doubt.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-06 14:44  

#2  With all of the nation-states at work in Syria, I gotta think *someone* can prove definitively whether al-Assad dropped chemical munitions or whether it was the rebels, as claimed. Frankly, both are plausible. Question for those that know: how would we/anyone go about establishing culpability beyond a shadow of doubt? Is it even possible?
Posted by: Whitch Turkeyneck3879   2017-04-06 14:39  

#1  I keep hearing CHEMICALS! CHEMICALS! CHEMICALS! on the news. Do we have any info on exactly what was used? My spider-sense is starting to tingle. And not from organo-phosphate exposure.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-04-06 12:13  

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