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2020-03-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkey Says it Destroyed 'Chemical Warfare Facility' in Syria

[AnNahar] A ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish official said Saturday that ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
destroyed a chemical warfare facility in northwest Syria after dozens of its soldiers were killed by Syrian regime fire.

The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish army destroyed overnight "a chemical warfare facility, located some 13 kilometres south of Aleppo, along with a large number of other regime targets," the bigwig told news hounds on condition of anonymity.

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#1 Blew up a swimming pool supply store, did they?

Posted by SteveS 2020-03-02 01:04|| 2020-03-02 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Not sure if they have swimming pool supply stores. Probably an infant formula factory.

Posted by Beau 2020-03-02 03:47|| 2020-03-02 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Water treatment plant.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-03-02 06:23|| 2020-03-02 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 When I was in college some company (Dupont, Monsanto?) was running an ad that said "Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible." We yukked it up saying that while lining up the weekend's recreations.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-02 07:33|| 2020-03-02 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Old Saddam stuff?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-03-02 08:13|| 2020-03-02 08:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Syria has chemical warfare facilities? I'm shocked.

Posted by gorb 2020-03-02 08:38|| 2020-03-02 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 When Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat (or anyone from Bellingcat for that matter), the NYTimes, and any global circulated mag (say the Economic Times), when they all repeat the same press release, "chemical warfare facility... 13 kilometres south of Aleppo" but none can cite the name of the facility (Bellingcat should be able to open source its name) - when I hear the same narrative repeated over and over in transnationalist rags/orgs, it triggers a confirmational bias and I have to call BS.

Posted by mossomo 2020-03-02 11:05|| 2020-03-02 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Nope, we found all that stuff and it was US and German engineered stuff leftover from the 1980s. i.e. Reagan and Helmut Kohl were war criminals that would be executed had they been little pissant states at odds with us:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=1

Posted by Ulerert Ebbavith7568 2020-03-02 13:28|| 2020-03-02 13:28|| Front Page Top

#9 nytimes.com your source? Well that settles it.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-02 19:08|| 2020-03-02 19:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Ulerert Ebbavith7568, your article describes what was found in Iraq, the New York Times finally admitting in 2014 what they’d adamantly been denying — and we’d been collecting reports on here at Rantburg — since 2004 or thereabouts.

This is Syria.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-02 19:25|| 2020-03-02 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 "Turkey . . . [destroyed] a chemical warfare facility in . . . Syria"

They may have destroyed the building, but not until they stole all the chemical warfare stuff first.

Posted by Barbara 2020-03-02 21:27|| 2020-03-02 21:27|| Front Page Top