As images of Syrian children gasping and convulsing spread around the world, US President Donald Trump and other international leaders denounced the Syrian regime for their alleged role in a suspected chemical attack. At least 48 people died Saturday in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta, the White Helmets rescue group and the Syrian American Medical Society charity group said in a joint statement.
The evidence points toward yet another chemical attack by the regime," said Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for European Union Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. "Almost a year to the day of the horrific attacks in Khan Sheikhoun, it is a matter of grave concern that chemical weapons continue to be used, especially on civilians." US President Donald Trump described the attack as "sick" and criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Trump threatened that there would be a "big price to pay" for the deaths.
US President Donald Trump described the attack as "sick" and criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Trump threatened that there would be a "big price to pay" for the deaths.
But the Syrian government and its key ally, Russia, vehemently denied involvement in Saturday's attack. Instead, they accused rebels in Douma of fabricating the chemical assault claims in order to hinder the army's advances and provoke international military intervention. Russia's Foreign Ministry called the reported attack a "hoax" that interfered with a deal to end fighting in Douma and evacuate civilians as well as Jaish al-Islam rebels and their families. Iran, another ally, also defended the Syrian regime. "The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the use of such (chemical) weapons by any party and anywhere in the world," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi told the state-run Islamic Republic News agency. He said the allegation that the Syrian regime is behind the attack "is not compatible with reality."
The US State Department described the incident in Douma as "horrifying" and said that, if the use of chemical agents in the attack was confirmed, it would "demand an immediate response by the international community." The United National Security Council will hold two emergency meetings on Monday, two UN diplomats told CNN. A meeting on the attack was requested by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Kuwait, Peru and Cote d'Ivoire. Russia requested another meeting, the diplomats said; the topic is not known but it is believed to be Syria-related. Hundreds of people affected Anti-government activists claimed Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs filled with chemicals on the town, suffocating some residents and sending others into violent convulsions. Graphic footage shot by rescuers and activists show victims – including children – dead and injured, some ghostly white and foaming at the mouth in makeshift clinics. Others were found suffocated in their homes, according to first responders. At least 48 people died in the Douma area, and 500 others displayed symptoms similar to exposure to "toxic gas," the White Helmets rescue group and Syrian American Medical Society said. Other groups said the death toll was higher. CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage or the reports.
Underground weapons factory? The Syrian regime has long accused rebel groups of launching chemical attacks in the country. Last week the Syrian military took CNN to what it claimed was an underground weapons factory belonging to rebels in Eastern Ghouta.
nside they showed off chemicals, fuses and mortar casings they said were used by rebels to manufacture weapons.Government officials also showed CNN a handwritten manual detailing instructions for how to build incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus munitions, amongst other things. Officials say the manual was left behind by the rebels. At another site, the military showed an underground storage facility they say belonged to the rebels inside a civilian area. The facility included an SA-5 surface-to-air missile. CNN could not independently verify these claims. One year after Khan Sheikhoun The Syrian regime has been accused many times of turning chemical weapons on its people during the war. In April 2017, a sarin gas attack killed more than 80 people in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. Seven years on, the West should stop feigning heartbreak over Syria Seven years on, the West should stop feigning heartbreak over Syria That attack prompted the United States to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase. A joint report from the United Nations and international chemical weapons inspectors last October determined that Assad's government was responsible for the attack. Damascus denied it was behind the attack and has repeatedly denied it has any chemical weapons. Saturday's attack comes amid uncertainty about what role, if any, the US will play in Syria in the future. The US has about 2,000 troops in Syria, where they advise local forces fighting ISIS. President Trump has said he wants to bring American troops home, but last week agreed to keep them in Syria for the short-term to help defeat the terror group.
Henry Ward
This is a distraction from the isreal black friday massacre.
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay
Hunter Roberts
Oh look it's this shill again. Why do you want want the us to go to war so bad? I wonder…
"Rescuers" and "activists" is a weir way of saying oligarch backed terrorists
Jack Flores
pacifist pussy
Alexander Anderson
Russia warns of militants chemical attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta Mon Feb 26, 2018
Russia has warned that militants in Eastern Ghouta are preparing to launch a chemical attack which they plan to blame on the Syrian government.
"The data at our disposal indicates the leaders of militant units are preparing a provocation that will involve the utilization of chemical weapons in order to accuse the government forces of deploying chemical weapons against peaceful civilians," said a report released by the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria on Sunday.
The center also called on all sides engaged in the conflict to halt all combat actions and armed provocations.
Eastern Ghouta near Damascus has witnessed renewed violence in the past few days, where terrorists have mounted repeated mortar attacks on the Syrian capital in the face of an imminent rout. Western powers, however, blame the Syrian government and Russia for the crisis.
Good. Hope U.S. uses any excuse to drop moar bombs on Syrians, Russians and Iranians.
Jacob James
It should be noted that the likely reason for Russian support of the Assad regime's chemical terror tactics is that it scares the civilian population into becoming refugees that flood and destabilize NATO member states (particularly Turkey).
There is a direct line to be drawn from chemical weapon attacks in Syria to the polarization of European politics.
I like to watch US politicians,knowing it was a rebel false flag,but still calling for attack on SYRIA It's a good way to know who worships the chaos the most
Easton Cook
I was thinking more along these lines
Apep was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos (ızft in Egyptian) and was thus the opponent Ra,god of light and (order/truth). He appears in art as a giant serpent.
Yahweh and nothingness in the case of Syria and Israel(Israel being the proponent of chaotic nothingness at the moment,having lost their way because of the holocaust and being surrounded by enemies-survival at any cost)
Jeremiah Morgan
Don't worry shill, no one is going pacifist on you
Nathaniel Wright
empty talk, cuck
William Morales
Nice straw man you got their. Did you think of that one yourself?
Nolan Morgan
No there isn't. The refugee crisis is because of former "moderate rebels" ISIS killing millions and entire cities being destroyed to take them back. Your propaganda is so flimsy a child could see through it. Russia isn't the one bringing them to europe in boats.
Joseph Sanchez
Go fight Russia and her allies yourself, faggot. You'll play anmportant role in natural selection
Landon Cox
Still here an hour later to reply in real time? Do they pay you by the hour? I could have sworn you got payed per post.
Nolan Evans
A direct attack by Israel Putin and Assad will do nothing in response like they always do Absolute cucks
This is because Trump said he want US troops out of Syria. Certainly there are (((some))) people who do not wish it.
Grayson Peterson
of course russia will say it's a false flag, that's their MO. you can tell, because the russian posters that lurk on this board keep saying everything in syria is a false flag. also, russia would never try to poison and kill someone they don't like. litvinenko, skripal, yushchenko, kalashnikov, tsepov, 30 terrorists and their 133 hostages in a theater, etc. all false flags (according to russian shills)
Angel Gonzalez
t. kike
Connor Peterson
that's why they would make a good fall guy,because they could do it. it doesn't matter now whether they they did or didn't. PUTIN just got his knight taken in 3d chess because he's a poisoning piece of shit. he even knew he was out moved 5 weeks ago when he said rebels were going to release gas
US politicians,being the used car salesmen they are,are checkers players,and will just see what they are meant to see,,,get russia
William Richardson
judy has been busy posting else where for that hr
Ian Scott
The Ghouta chemical attack occurred in Ghouta, Syria during the Syrian Civil War, in the early hours of 21 August 2013.
Allegations of false flag attack
The attacks prompted some U.S. intelligence officials to speculate they were carried out by the opposition in order to draw the West into the war, a concept dismissed by others. Other experts and officials questioned whether the government was responsible based on the timing of the attack, just after the UN Mission had arrived in Damascus, and lack of motivation, since the government was advancing in the area.
In December 2013 Seymour Hersh wrote that in the days before and after the attack, sensors notifying U.S. intelligence agencies of Syrian chemical weapons deployment did not activate, and intelligence briefings shown to the U.S. president contained no information about an impending government chemical weapons attack.In the article, Hersh relates that the U.S. government had publicly cited classified intercepts of communications it said were between Syrian officials, unavailable to the public, which they state prove Syrian government forces carried out the chemical attack.[12] Hersh quotes a former senior U.S. intelligence official who said the transcript included intercepts from many months prior to the attack, collated to make them appear related to the Ghouta attacks.
In April 2014 Hersh wrote an article proposing the attacks were committed by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, whom Hersh writes were supplied with sarin by Turkey. Hersh's argument received some support, but was dismissed by other commentators. The US and Turkish governments denied the accuracy of Hersh's article
On 20 October 2015, Republican People's Party deputy Eren Erdem told RT that documents from a Turkish government investigation showed that ISIL and affiliated groups received help from Turkish intelligence (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı) to carry out the Ghouta chemical attack
The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack took place on 4 April 2017 on the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.
Former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Hans Blix, described the US retaliation as "measured" and specific,[152] but later criticized the rapid American military response.[153] He initially raised concern that the responsibility of the Syrian government was not yet proven,[152] but stated on April 11, 2017, "On balance it seems probable that the attack with gas was undertaken by the Syrian government air force," adding that "the factual circumstances known so far do not point to the rebels as arranging the gas action".[153]
Other people who have expressed skepticism of the Syrian government being responsible for the attack include former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter,[28][154] MIT professor emeritus Theodore Postol,[155] former UK ambassador to Syria and director of the British Syrian Society Peter Ford,[156][157] investigative Israeli journalist Uri Avneri,[158] and investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.[159]
Moscow calls ‘chemical attack’ in Douma ‘fake news,’ warns against Syrian intervention
MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry has rejected as fake news Saturday’s reports on a chemical attack carried out by the Syrian government forces in Douma near Damascus.
"Fake news on the use of chlorine or other chemical agents by the government forces continue," the ministry said. "Another piece of such fabricated information on the alleged chemical attack in Douma emerged yesterday."
Allegations about the use of chemical agents by the Syrian government forces are aimed at justifying external military strikes, the ministry said. "The goal of these false speculations, which are not substantiated by any facts, is to cover up terrorists and irreconcilable radical opposition, which opposes political settlement, and to simultaneously try to justify potential external military strikes," the ministry said.
"It is necessary to once again caution that military intervention under false and fabricated pretexts in Syria, where the Russian servicemen stay at the request of the legitimate government, is absolutely unacceptable and may trigger the gravest consequences," the ministry said.
What's with the fucking videos of The children having been gassed getting something sprayed in their eyes, and then immediately bellowing out a puff of smoke? Also, none of these shits even Exibit any of the symptoms, at the very fucking least one would observe convulsions, continuous heaving or skin blisters depending on what was used. Combine that with absolutely no reason for Assad to do this, since he was already comically close to wiping the rebels out, and we have a shitfest of untrues, implications and of course muh Russia.
Anthony Nelson
Typical conspiracy autist Of they were gassed idiot. The question is who done it
Kevin Brooks
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Anthony Cooper
you should fucking try and learn how chemical agents even work, you fucking retard. either the agent used is deadly enough to kill most affected, or it has pretty telling side effects. you have video's of doctors handling these kids barehanded, which is against every snippet of caution taught in dealing with chemical weaponry, none of the kids which are 'treated' have any fucking noticeable side effects like blistering and such, and we already know the rebels doctored previous videos by smearing kids with blood to get a good picture, or acting dead, but having the same fucking kid in another later video. please, tell me again how we know, 100% that they were gassed. did the owcp looked into it? did the syrian rebels provided samples with the agent? shut your fucking mouth and quit wasting valuable oxygen, you dolt.
Christopher Jenkins
I will always be a huge fan of a 303, even when it's a red carpet into a dubstep drop
Angel Ortiz
Syrian Army has been capturing Terrorists Chemical caches & laboratories for months now, but US Media refuses to run the stories.
WW3 won't happen, but Trump will probly be forced to increase Israeli Defense funding ten times over. Very soon.
Ayden Morris
Bullseye.
The juden always repeat the same tricks, they aren't imaginative or inventive. If they were they wouldn't be a disgusting thief cult.
Thomas Torres
This exactly. Arabs are infamous not so much for false flag attacks, but for faking deaths and injuries. They spent years perfecting it against Israel, and learning how gullible Western media is when confronted with dead children. We never learned out lesson, but they sure did.
the image in the middle of them supposedly holding up that photo is totally fake, you know that right? 2 things that give it away. 1, the fact that this image is so low resolution as to make careful scrutiny of the quality of the fake difficult. 2. even though it's low resolution you don't need it to see that the lighting is completely wrong and a mismatch. for some reason channers are such conspiracy nuts that's all anything is, ever. occam's razor more often.
Nicholas Reed
I'm expected to believe Assad fired one chemical shell at a bunch of civilians. I will believe it if he fires a thousand shells at American or Islamic state positions.
Jeremiah Lewis
Image isn't fake, the son fucked his mum so hard she died
Jonathan Brown
btw, low resolution is the cornerstone of every cheap conspiracy peddled on chans, from this to the sandy hook "actors" and dead children that are really alive an all that. next time you see "proof" showing one small blurry blond person that looks exactly like some other small blurry blond person, tell them to post the hi rez or GTFO.
If Americans actually pay attention to this fake chemical attack and are forced to confront the fact that America/Israeli deep state is behind it, then at least some Americans will finally be brought around to ISIS and the global war on terror being fake.
Angel Watson
I bet your one them subhumans that think sandyhook was a false flag
