Syria chemical weapons: finger pointed at jihadists

Obama will have to spin a good one to reconcile his promise that chem-weapons are a red line for him, and it was his jihadi-rebels that used them. Just another feather in the putrid cap that is the Obama administrations real legacy.

H/T Richard

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

Black smoke rise from buildings due to government forces shelling, in Aleppo Photo: AP/AMC

By Alex Thomson, Chief Correspondent, Channel 4 News

6:18PM GMT 23 Mar 2013

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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3 Replies to “Syria chemical weapons: finger pointed at jihadists”

  1. Obama will find some way to twist the truth, he always does especially when the lie will hurt the US.

  2. Obama, A couple of weeks ago quite out of the blue warns the Syrian government against using chemical weapons. In the interim the British and American governments are making loud noises
    about arming rebels(international terrorist mercenaries, which they are already doing anyway). Then, last week the western media is awash with stories ‘Assad uses chemical weapons on his own people’. Now it is proved it was the terrorist Wat dun it — ‘Whoah – who, me ?Nooooo, I roundly condemn those terrorist. Red line? eh, ? What red line?’
    DO US A FAVOUR! EVEN THE SHEEPLE AREN’T THAT STUPID –ARE THEY ?