New Chemical Attack in Syria. Both sides blame the other.

[KevinNYC]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/syria-rebels-government-confirm-poison-gas-attack

Both rebels and government agree an attack happened in a rebel-held village north of Damascus.


An amateur video posted online by opposition activists showed a hospital room in Kfar Zeita that was packed with men and children, some of whom breathing through oxygen masks. On one bed, the video showed six children, some appearing to have difficulty breathing while others cried.

The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting of the attack.After the rebels announced the attack, the next day Syrian State TV blamed in on a rebel group. They also specially named the chemical used.
State-run Syrian television blamed members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front rebel group for the attack, saying they used chlorine gas to kill two people and injure more than 100. It did not say how it confirmed chlorine was used.

Chlorine, one of the most commonly manufactured chemicals in the U.S., is used to purify drinking water. But as a gas, it can be deadly, with the German army using it in warfare in World War I. The Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Syria signed, banned its use in battle.If the attack occurred in rebel territory, I'm wondering how they would be able to identify the chemical as chlorine. The attack last year at Ghouta used sarin.

[KevinNYC]

The rebels seem to have mentioned chlorine as well. (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/world/middleeast/damascus-and-rebels-trade-blame-in-gas-attack.html)

The attack took place Friday evening in the village of Kfar Zeita, sending streams of choking patients, including children, to poorly equipped field hospitals, according to local medics and videos posted online. Opposition activists said government helicopters had dropped improvised bombs on the village, covering it with a thick smoke that smelled of chlorine.
While the opposition reported the attack soon after it happened, Syrian state television first mentioned it the day after in an urgent news banner during a broadcast. It blamed the Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, for the attack, adding that two people were killed and more than 100 others affected by the gas. A subsequent banner announcement said the Nusra Front was preparing two more chemical attacks. It was the first time since last year that both sides agreed that toxic weapons had been used.

[zoom17]

screw the rebels Assad keep killing those rats:applause:

[KevinNYC]

If, in fact, these were bombs delivered by helicopter, that would strongly point to the Syrian government who have using improvised "barrel bombs" delivered by helicopter for a couple of years now. (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/02/18/barrel_bombs_what_makes_syria_s_brutally_crude_new _weapon_so_effective.html)

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_iYQlMw0r0

These ones used parachutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuOWbmCB6kI

[Patrick Chewing]

Those mofo's still fighting over there?? Oh that's right, it's the Middle East.

[KevinNYC]

Other reports saying this is not the only recent incident. This article appeared before the recent chlorine attack.


BRITAIN and the US are investigating claims the Syrian government has carried out a series of new chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus.

British officials yesterday said they were “aware of multiple allegations” of chemical attacks designed to terrorise *opposition-controlled areas in the capital.

It is claimed the regime is using toxic industrial substances, rather than weaponised chemicals, as a ploy to spread fear, but on a scale not quite large enough to trigger an international military response.

The US and its allies came close to military action after the Assad regime killed up to 1300 in outlying areas of Damascus with sarin in August, the dead*liest assault since Saddam Hussein gassed Kurds in Iraq in the late 1980s.

The British Foreign Office said it was seeking more information on an alleged chemical attack in the suburbs of Harasta on March 27, another in Daraya on January 13, and two attacks this month on Adra and Jobar.

The US and Turkey said they were also investigating rebel claims that chlorine and possibly “high doses of pesticides” had been used in the attacks.

The Syrian opposition said it had taken samples of clothing and soil from the sites of more than one recent attack, which had been handed to the governments in Jordan and Turkey.

Israeli officials believe a chemical that “neutralises but does not kill” was used in the *attack on Harasta, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The opposition Syrian National Coalition alleged the chemical attack in Harasta killed three people and injured more than 25.

It said it was the latest in a series of attacks, *including the January 13 pois*oning in Daraya that killed three people and left 10 with symptoms consistent with chemical exposure. It added they could preface a wider, deadlier attack..

[Nick Young]

USA warmongering for war vs Assad:facepalm

[fiddy]

USA warmongering for war vs Assad:facepalm
not really, syria is not longer relevant. Obama aims for Putin and his war against the petrodollar