[ARABNEWS] US 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...
on Thursday accused Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
of breaking the terms of a global pact on chemical weapons by unleashing chlorine gas this year.
Crossed a red line, did he? Tut.
"We believe there is evidence of Assad's use of chlorine, which when you use it -- despite it not being on the list -- it is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention," Kerry told US politicians. The US also had "some questions about a couple of other items" which were being investigated "so he's in violation of the convention," Kerry added.
Washington was studying ways to hold Assad to account, after the world's chemical watchdog earlier this month confirmed the systematic use of chlorine as a weapon in war-torn Syria.
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
an international aid group says that nearly three million Syrian children are not attending school due to the war raging in their country. The report by the Britannia-based Save the Children adds that hundreds of thousands of displaced children are struggling to enroll for school in their host countries and in Syria.