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Syria Conflict: Government Again Accused of Using Chemical Weapons on Civilians as Villagers Are Treated Following Gas Attacks

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The Syrian government has been accused of again using chemical weapons against civilians as fighting intensifies with fresh rebel attacks in the north of the country.

Helicopters deployed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad dropped barrel bombs containing gas canisters filled with lethal chemicals in and around the city of Idlib, west of Aleppo, as it was assaulted and later captured by jihadi forces led by the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, in March according to Human Rights Watch.

The group said it had evidence strongly suggesting that toxic chemicals dropped by helicopters between 16 and 31 March affected 206 people, with one attack killing six people, including three children.

The accusation came as rebels in Aleppo blew up a Syrian air force intelligence headquarters by exploding a powerful bomb packed into a tunnel dug secretly beneath it. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that more than 20 government troops and fighters were killed and wounded in the blast, along with 13 rebels. The rebels are also making advances north of Aleppo where they earlier repelled a government counter-offensive.

Rescue workers and doctors in Idlib said that the bombs alleged to have contained the chemicals did not detonate when they landed, but there was a strong smell of chlorine. Dr Mohammed Ghaleb Tirani, the director of a field hospital in Sarmin six miles south east from Idlib city, treated six members of the Talib family, including three infants, found in a basement. He said “Aioush [Talib, the grandmother], 65, died before arriving at the hospital. We tried to treat the others. The children were foaming at the mouth, they were suffocating, then their hearts stopped. The parents had trouble breathing. We tried to treat them, but they died as well.”

Muhammad Yazan, a local activist, told HRW that he had gone to where two barrel bombs had landed in a field on 16 March but there was no explosion. Soon afterwards, 30 civilians and 40 rebel fighters were affected and sought treatment in hospital. “There was a very strong chlorine smell there,” said Mr Yazan. “One of our team members passed out. It was horrible. My eyes were burning. I wanted to throw up. My skin felt like I had rashes.”

The Syrian air force is notorious for responding to rebel attacks by indiscriminate bombing of any area it believes to be in rebel hands. The barrel bombs normally contain explosives and scrap metal, but in this case there is strong evidence that chlorine gas canisters were employed.

The use of poison of gas may be a measure of Syrian desperation as between 4,000 and 5,000 Jabhat al-Nusra fighters captured Idlib, long a government stronghold in a rebel-held area and only the second out of 14 Syrian provincial capitals to be lost by government forces.

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After the city’s fall on 28 March, Syrian helicopters are alleged to have dropped bombs on the city itself. Leith Fares, a civil defence worker, said that he reached the place where a barrel bomb had fallen in the street, where he saw remains of “refrigerant gas canisters and bottles filled with red liquid”. An opposition journalist said he saw several gas canisters with yellow gas leaking from one.

Jabhat al-Nusra and other opposition groups such as Ahrar al-Sham have been on the offensive in Idlib and Aleppo in recent weeks. They are reported to have received strong support from Turkey, whose frontier is to the north, and fresh supplies of weapons funded by Saudi Arabia.

With Jabhat al-Nusra making advances in the north and Islamic Fighters taking over most of Yarmouk Palestinian Camp, the government has suffered a series of reverses. Both Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra are growing in strength and the Syrian army is finding it difficult to keep up its numbers after four years of war. Despite a shortage of recruits, it is, however, expected to launch a counter-offensive to recapture Idlib.

Meanwhile, Isis has been pushing westwards to cut the Syrian army’s supply lines to Aleppo from the south. As the fighting intensifies the government is likely to use any weapon it can get its hands on, including chemical weapons.

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  1. IOW, the thuggish, disorganized rebels are 仍然 unable to realize their goal of beheading every non-Wahabbist despite additional infusions of weapons and cash from Turkey and Saudi Arabia. So we get this renewed parade of horribles to try and convince US/NATO to bomb Alawites and Christians.

    • 回复: @matt
  2. matt 说:
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Cockburn doesn’t support bombing the Baathist regime. In fact, in the article he wrote just prior to this one, he essentially advocated an open alliance with the regime. But even, and in fact especially, if you agree with that, you have a duty to be honest about the nature of that regime. These allegations (I have no idea if they are true) are serious, and they should be reported. Even if they turn out to be false, there’s no question that the Baathists are an evil bunch, even if they’re the lesser evil right now.

  3. KA 说:

    “Though California State University professor As’ad AbuKhalil expressed serious doubts early on about Engel’s captors being the shabiha, and aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, the correspondent’s account was never seriously challenged in the news media. On the day Engel surfaced in Turkey, AbuKhalil wrote that graffiti visible in a video of the captured journalists included “clearly fake” slogans intended to falsely suggest the captors were Shiites. ”
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/richard-engel-syria-kidnappers_n_7075216.html

    Richard Engel’s story was way too convenient a flag to be stopped from fluttering. The claim of the straight man from Scotland posing as Lesbian from Syria that she was under all kinds of barbaric medieval treatments from Assad was par on the course just like this story when it emerged .
    Media never doubt what its handlers imply .like the donkey it follows the money,power,and charisma .Fear inhibits any moral expression .Fear guides its behaviors . It suffers from sickening state of fearfulness . This is the media that doesn’t have the guts to point the finger at the coordinated manipulation that has unfolded from the sinister forces from the very beginning to get US involved in war against Assad.

  4. KA 说:

    A lesson for Iran- Iran would still be accused of maintaining and sustaining nuclear program years after it had been cleared of having any weaponization of nuclear program.

    UN has accounted for all CW sites and has certified of the removal of the government inventory to outside the country . Still one hears the same charges .

    This is consistent with the habitual century’s old lying by the media in support of the war promoting activities . Recently the media doesn’t have to be guided .it picks up the cues ,deciphers the subliminal messages and echoes the underlying thought . Iraq war Libyan war,Somalian war,war against Iran and Syria and Yemen are the fullest expression of this arrangement.

    • 回复: @bossel
  5. Anonymous • 免责声明 说:

    “An opposition journalist said he saw several gas canisters with yellow gas leaking from one.”

    And the journalist forgot his camera and mobile phone so was unable to document the event?

  6. bossel 说:
    @KA

    “UN has accounted for all CW sites and has certified of the removal of the government inventory to outside the country . Still one hears the same charges . ”
    Reading is not your strongest feature, is it?
    If you look at Cockburn’s article again, you may note that it’s not about advanced chemical weaponry but about improvised devices.

  7. anonymous • 免责声明 说:

    This is the 100th anniversary of the genocide of the Christian Armenians by the Turks where over a million people were murdered. We cannot let such a history repeat itself. These Islamist rebels have been killing the religious minorities that have had the misfortune to fall under their control. They must be stopped; it’s a matter of survival. Who is any American to nitpick in this case when their own government has used any atrocious weapon it could from atomic bombs to Agent Orange to cluster bombs to depleted uranium? Should the rebels prevail there’d be a huge bloodbath in the aftermath and one can expect the historic Christian communities to be exterminated. It would be one of the greatest crimes in all history were that to take place.
    The reports are suspect, much coming from so-called ‘activists’ and reminiscent of the Iraqi incubator babies propaganda fabrication. The rebels are the ones who have been leaving a trail of atrocity and terror and should be paid back in the same coin.

    • 回复: @solontoCroesus
  8. Anonymous • 免责声明 说:

    {Muhammad Yazan, a local activist, told HRW that he had gone to where two barrel bombs had landed in a field on 16 March but there was no explosion. }

    Whoever quotes from the stooges of the USG police state and terrorist state HRW is an agent of the intelligence services of the west and should not be taken seriously. Many articles have been published expositing HRW as US agents and pawns. HRW cannot be trusted.

  9. @anonymous

    “The rebels are the ones who have been leaving a trail of atrocity and terror and should be paid back in the same coin.=

    转另一个 脸颊 桶。

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