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US initial assessment does not blame Syria for chemical attack
2018-04-10
[PRESSTV] An initial assessment by the United States has not determined whether a reported chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma was carried out by Syrian government forces, Rooters reports.

The assessment also suggested that a never agent was used in the suspected poison attack, but further evidence was needed to determine the type of agent, US government sources told the news agency.

In a pair of tweets on Sunday, President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
appeared to blame the Syrian government and Russia for Saturday’s chemical incident in the suburb of Damascus, and warned of "a big price."

Trump also called out Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
for his role in Syria’s conflict that just entered its eighth year.

The US president and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed in a phone call that chemical weapons had been used in Douma.

"Both leaders strongly condemned the horrific chemical weapons attacks in Syria and agreed that the Assad regime must be held accountable for its continued human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
abuses," a White House statement said.
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