Syria Chemical Weapons: Finger Pointed At Jjihadists -- The Telegraph
A Syrian Army source gives the first account of what is believed to have been a chemical attack - and it could mean that one of the West's biggest fears is about to come true. Channel 4's Alex Thomson reports.
Whatever happened last week in the town of Khan al-Assal, west of Aleppo, it achieved something extraordinary in the Syrian civil war: unity among Washington, Moscow and Damascus.
All welcomed the rapid decision by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, to investigate an alleged chemical attack that reportedly killed 26, including Syrian soldiers.
Unusually, the request for that investigation came from the Syrian regime, which claimed that Islamic jihadist rebels launched a chemical weapons attack. Since then, precious little evidence in any way has come from the area despite an awful lot of diplomatic noise around the world.
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My Comment: It is now hard to take any report coming out of Syria with any seriousness. Western journalists are staying away because of the extreme danger involved, and the reporters who are there are either escorted by the Syrian government 24/7, or they are with the rebels and are reporting the news from their perspective.
As to the reports that a jihadist group used a crude chemical weapon in one specific attack .... my answer is .... "who knows" .... but it will not surprise me if it is true.
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