Syria Warns That Terrorists Might Use Chemical Weapons

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Syria fears that the terrorists were equipped with chemical weapons and stated that itself never used and will never use chemical weapons.

Damascus, SANA – The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that following the achievements made by the Syrian Arab Army in routing terrorist organizations in Damascus Countryside, Hama’s northern countryside, and other areas, some regional and international sides that are hostile to Syria along with their terrorist pawns are issuing false allegations about the possibility of the Syrian army using chemical weapons in its operations.

In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry said that the Syrian Arab Republic affirmed repeatedly and is now reiterating that it never has and never will use chemical weapons under any context, and at the same time Syria warns that the sides in the region and the world who are conspiring against it might provide chemical weapons to terrorist organizations to be used against the Syrian people and frame the Syrian Arab Army for the attacks, similar to what happened in Khan al-Assal in Aleppo and in al-Ghouta in Damascus Countryside last year.

The statement said that this scenario would be an attempt to fabricate an excuse to wage a premeditated aggression on Syria, particularly after Syria’s response to the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s initiative in 2013 foiled the aggression which was prepared for Syria.

The Foreign Ministry’s statement asserted that Syria has fulfilled its commitments in the framework of its joining the Chemical Weapons Conviction and affirms that it has become free of this sort of weapon after its full cooperation with the joint mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations.

The statement said Syria expects the international community to reject the false pretexts that exploit the issue of chemical weapons and to focus instead on counterterrorism and exercising pressure on terrorism backers to cease their arming, funding, and harboring of terrorists in order to preserve peace and security in the region and the world.
Foreign Ministry Syria warns that terrorists might use chemical weapons to frame Syrian army and justify a premeditated aggression on Syria Syrian Arab News Agency

 

[waltky]

Here we go - WMD's again...

UN to Probe 5 Serious Cases of Alleged Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
February 12, 2016 - A United Nations team says it has zeroed in on five serious cases of alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria for further investigation, including chlorine gas and mustard gas.

The U.N. chemical weapons agency and the Security Council set up the Joint Investigative Mechanism — JIM — last year after reports of as many as 116 incidents of chemical attacks in Syria against civilians since 2014. The JIM mission is not to blame one side or the other, but to turn over the results of its investigation and any evidence to the Security Council. But JIM leaders say "all individuals, groups, entities or governments that have any role in enabling the use of chemicals as weapons, for whatever reason and under any circumstances, must understand that they will be identified and made accountable for these abhorrent acts."

This video image from an anti-Bashar Assad activist group shows a Syrian man being treated with an inhaler in Kfar Zeita, north of Damascus, after what witnesses said was a chlorine gas attack​

The Syrian government and rebels blame each other for using chemicals against civilians. But U.S. officials have said some of the attacks involved barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, and pointed out that the rebels do not have helicopters. The five cases to be thoroughly investigated involve the suspected use of chemical weapons on villages in Hama and Idlib in 2014 and 2015, and on a town near the Turkish border where Islamic State is active.

Meanwhile, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, said IS has used such weapons in Syria. Brennan told CBS television's 60 Minutes, to be broadcast Sunday, that there are a number of instances where the terrorists used "chemical munitions on the battlefield." He said Islamic State has the capacity to make small quantities of chlorine and mustard gas and may be looking to sell the chemicals.

UN to Probe 5 Serious Cases of Alleged Chemical Weapons Use in Syria

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IS has used, can make chemical weapons, CIA says
Sat, Feb 13, 2016 - DOING ITS PART: US intelligence is involved in the efforts to destroy the Islamic State and to get as much insight into what the group has on the ground, the CIA director said

CIA Director John Brennan has said that Islamic State (IS) fighters have used chemical weapons and have the capability to make small quantities of chlorine and mustard gas, CBS News reported on Thursday. “We have a number of instances where [IS] has used chemical munitions on the battlefield,” Brennan told CBS News, which released excerpts of an interview to air in full on the 60 Minutes news program tomorrow. The network added that he told 60 Minutes the CIA believes that the IS group has the ability to make small amounts of mustard or chlorine gas for weapons. “There are reports that [IS] has access to chemical precursors and munitions that they can use,” Brennan said.

Brennan also warned of the possibility that the Islamic State group could seek to export the weapons to the West for financial gain. “I think there’s always the potential for that. This is why it’s so important to cut off the various transportation routes and smuggling routes that they have used,” he said. When asked if there were “American assets on the ground” searching for possible chemical weapons caches or labs, Brennan replied: “US intelligence is actively involved in being a part of the efforts to destroy [IS] and to get as much insight into what they have on the ground inside of Syria and Iraq.”

The release of the interview excerpts comes two days after similar comments from US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper before a US congressional committee. “[IS] has also used toxic chemicals in Iraq and Syria, including the blister agent sulfur mustard,” Clapper told lawmakers on Tuesday. He said it was the first time an extremist group had produced and used a chemical warfare agent in an attack since Japan’s Aum Supreme Truth cult carried out a deadly sarin attack during rush hour in the Tokyo subway in 1995. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and rebel forces have accused each other of using chemical agents in the nearly five-year war that has killed more than 250,000 people. After an August 2013 sarin attack outside Damascus that much of the international community blamed on al-Assad’s government, the regime agreed to turn over its chemical arsenal.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — which oversaw the dangerous removal and elimination of Syria’s avowed stockpile — now says that the declared arsenal has been completely destroyed. However, the global arms watchdog has still warned of the continued use of mustard, sarin and chlorine gas in the conflict, without blaming the regime, the rebels or the IS group for use of the weapons, which are banned under international law. Last year, officials in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan said blood tests had shown that IS fighters used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish peshmerga forces in August last year. Thirty-five peshmerga fighters were exposed and some were taken abroad for treatment, officials said. At the time of the attack, the Wall Street Journal cited US officials as saying they believed IS had used mustard agent.

IS has used, can make chemical weapons, CIA says - Taipei Times

 

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Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs on Aleppo'...

Dozens hurt as Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs' on Aleppo
Wednesday 7th September, 2016 - Syrian government aircraft have dropped suspected chlorine bombs on a crowded district of Aleppo, injuring dozens, activists and rescue workers said. The report could not be independently verified.

Accusations involving the use of chlorine and other poisonous gases are not uncommon in Syria's civil war, and both sides have denied using them. Last month, there were at least two reports of suspected chlorine attacks in Aleppo, while the Syrian government also blamed the opposition for using the gas. In the latest attack, a medical report from one of the hospitals in the besieged eastern rebel-held part of Aleppo was shared with journalists. It said at least 71 people including 37 children and 10 women were treated for breathing difficulties, dry cough, and that their clothes smelled of chlorine. The report said 10 of the patients are in critical care, including a pregnant woman.

Ibrahem Alhaj, a member of the Syria Civil Defence first responders' team, said he got to the scene in the crowded al-Sukkari area shortly after a helicopter dropped barrels containing what he said were four chlorine cylinders. He said he had difficulty breathing himself, and used a mask soaked in salt water to prevent irritation. At least 80 civilians were taken to hospitals and treated for breathing difficulties, he said. A video by the rescuers shows children crying and men coughing. "Most of those injured were women and children," he said. "It is a crowded neighbourhood." The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 70 people suffered from breathing difficulties after a barrel bomb attack in al-Sukkari on Tuesday. The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said he could not ascertain if it was chlorine gas attack.

Activists and rescue workers say te Syrian government has dropped chlorine bombs on Aleppo​

Chlorine gas is a crude weapon that can be fatal in high concentrations. In lower doses, it can damage lungs or cause severe breathing difficulties and other symptoms, including vomiting and nausea. A team of international inspectors determined in late August that the Syrian government and Islamic State militants were responsible for chemical attacks carried out in 2014 and 2015. But the UN Security Council failed to agree on whether to impose sanctions on the government in line with a September 2013 resolution authorising sanctions that can be militarily enforced for any use of chemical weapons in Syria. The resolution followed Syria's approval of a Russian proposal to relinquish its chemical weapons stockpile and join the Chemical Weapons Convention. That averted a US military strike in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Russia, a close Syrian government ally, has blocked sanctions against President Bashar Assad's government.

Fighting in the deeply contested city of Aleppo has not let up despite international efforts to establish a ceasefire. On Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces backed by air strikes launched a wide offensive in the city, capturing areas they lost last month and besieging rebel-held neighbourhoods once more after a breach in the siege a month earlier. On Tuesday, a Turkish spokesman said Turkey was pushing for a ceasefire in Aleppo that would extend through the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha, due to begin on Monday. Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to his US and Russian counterparts during the G20 meeting in China about the ceasefire.

Dozens hurt as Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs' on Aleppo - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

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Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs on Aleppo'...

Dozens hurt as Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs' on Aleppo
Wednesday 7th September, 2016 - Syrian government aircraft have dropped suspected chlorine bombs on a crowded district of Aleppo, injuring dozens, activists and rescue workers said. The report could not be independently verified.

Accusations involving the use of chlorine and other poisonous gases are not uncommon in Syria's civil war, and both sides have denied using them. Last month, there were at least two reports of suspected chlorine attacks in Aleppo, while the Syrian government also blamed the opposition for using the gas. In the latest attack, a medical report from one of the hospitals in the besieged eastern rebel-held part of Aleppo was shared with journalists. It said at least 71 people including 37 children and 10 women were treated for breathing difficulties, dry cough, and that their clothes smelled of chlorine. The report said 10 of the patients are in critical care, including a pregnant woman.

Ibrahem Alhaj, a member of the Syria Civil Defence first responders' team, said he got to the scene in the crowded al-Sukkari area shortly after a helicopter dropped barrels containing what he said were four chlorine cylinders. He said he had difficulty breathing himself, and used a mask soaked in salt water to prevent irritation. At least 80 civilians were taken to hospitals and treated for breathing difficulties, he said. A video by the rescuers shows children crying and men coughing. "Most of those injured were women and children," he said. "It is a crowded neighbourhood." The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 70 people suffered from breathing difficulties after a barrel bomb attack in al-Sukkari on Tuesday. The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said he could not ascertain if it was chlorine gas attack.

Activists and rescue workers say te Syrian government has dropped chlorine bombs on Aleppo​

Chlorine gas is a crude weapon that can be fatal in high concentrations. In lower doses, it can damage lungs or cause severe breathing difficulties and other symptoms, including vomiting and nausea. A team of international inspectors determined in late August that the Syrian government and Islamic State militants were responsible for chemical attacks carried out in 2014 and 2015. But the UN Security Council failed to agree on whether to impose sanctions on the government in line with a September 2013 resolution authorising sanctions that can be militarily enforced for any use of chemical weapons in Syria. The resolution followed Syria's approval of a Russian proposal to relinquish its chemical weapons stockpile and join the Chemical Weapons Convention. That averted a US military strike in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Russia, a close Syrian government ally, has blocked sanctions against President Bashar Assad's government.

Fighting in the deeply contested city of Aleppo has not let up despite international efforts to establish a ceasefire. On Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces backed by air strikes launched a wide offensive in the city, capturing areas they lost last month and besieging rebel-held neighbourhoods once more after a breach in the siege a month earlier. On Tuesday, a Turkish spokesman said Turkey was pushing for a ceasefire in Aleppo that would extend through the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha, due to begin on Monday. Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to his US and Russian counterparts during the G20 meeting in China about the ceasefire.

Dozens hurt as Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs' on Aleppo - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

I did not know what kind of gas it was and thanks for telling me it was Chlorine. Ammonia cancels Chlorine and why the soldiers pissed on their rags and put over their mouths in early WWI. Piss has a lot of ammonia in it.

 

[Bleipriester]

Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs on Aleppo'...

Dozens hurt as Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs' on Aleppo
Wednesday 7th September, 2016 - Syrian government aircraft have dropped suspected chlorine bombs on a crowded district of Aleppo, injuring dozens, activists and rescue workers said. The report could not be independently verified.

Accusations involving the use of chlorine and other poisonous gases are not uncommon in Syria's civil war, and both sides have denied using them. Last month, there were at least two reports of suspected chlorine attacks in Aleppo, while the Syrian government also blamed the opposition for using the gas. In the latest attack, a medical report from one of the hospitals in the besieged eastern rebel-held part of Aleppo was shared with journalists. It said at least 71 people including 37 children and 10 women were treated for breathing difficulties, dry cough, and that their clothes smelled of chlorine. The report said 10 of the patients are in critical care, including a pregnant woman.

Ibrahem Alhaj, a member of the Syria Civil Defence first responders' team, said he got to the scene in the crowded al-Sukkari area shortly after a helicopter dropped barrels containing what he said were four chlorine cylinders. He said he had difficulty breathing himself, and used a mask soaked in salt water to prevent irritation. At least 80 civilians were taken to hospitals and treated for breathing difficulties, he said. A video by the rescuers shows children crying and men coughing. "Most of those injured were women and children," he said. "It is a crowded neighbourhood." The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 70 people suffered from breathing difficulties after a barrel bomb attack in al-Sukkari on Tuesday. The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said he could not ascertain if it was chlorine gas attack.

Activists and rescue workers say te Syrian government has dropped chlorine bombs on Aleppo​

Chlorine gas is a crude weapon that can be fatal in high concentrations. In lower doses, it can damage lungs or cause severe breathing difficulties and other symptoms, including vomiting and nausea. A team of international inspectors determined in late August that the Syrian government and Islamic State militants were responsible for chemical attacks carried out in 2014 and 2015. But the UN Security Council failed to agree on whether to impose sanctions on the government in line with a September 2013 resolution authorising sanctions that can be militarily enforced for any use of chemical weapons in Syria. The resolution followed Syria's approval of a Russian proposal to relinquish its chemical weapons stockpile and join the Chemical Weapons Convention. That averted a US military strike in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Russia, a close Syrian government ally, has blocked sanctions against President Bashar Assad's government.

Fighting in the deeply contested city of Aleppo has not let up despite international efforts to establish a ceasefire. On Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces backed by air strikes launched a wide offensive in the city, capturing areas they lost last month and besieging rebel-held neighbourhoods once more after a breach in the siege a month earlier. On Tuesday, a Turkish spokesman said Turkey was pushing for a ceasefire in Aleppo that would extend through the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha, due to begin on Monday. Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to his US and Russian counterparts during the G20 meeting in China about the ceasefire.

Dozens hurt as Syrian government aircraft 'drop chlorine bombs' on Aleppo - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

I did not know what kind of gas it was and thanks for telling me it was Chlorine. Ammonia cancels Chlorine and why the soldiers pissed on their rags and put over their mouths in early WWI. Piss has a lot of ammonia in it.

The terrorists are angry because they lost thousands in their failed attempt to break the Aleppo siege. So they make up new stories. The Russians are bombing the shit out of the terrorists so where is the need to make chlorine bombs? This proves all that accusations since 2012 wrong.

 

[Freeman]

It's not the first time regime targeting the opposition with chemical weapon.

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