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Eyewitnesses describe a fighter jet dropping the device, a low explosion, followed by columns of fire and smoke.
Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway's report contains images viewers may find extremely distressing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-23892594
This is the incident Reuters reported a couple of days ago, but then the only video was unconfirmed clips on YouTube:
The alleged attack occurred as the United States and its European and Middle Eastern partners honed plans to punish Assad for a major poison gas attack last week on the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, that killed hundreds of civilians.
Video footage uploaded on the Internet, apparently of Monday's attack, showed doctors frantically smearing white cream on the reddened skin of several screaming people, many of them young boys.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/27/syria-crisis-opposition-phosphorus-idUSL6N0GS2ZJ20130827
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)They have no Air Force to drop bombs.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)which was an Assad stronghold has been taken by rebels.
I posted this in my Journal days ago:
Syria rebels take control of strategic town (Northern/Coastal Syria-Assad Stronghold) Al Jazeera
Source: Al Jazeera
Syrian rebel forces have taken control of a strategic town in northern Syria, cutting off government forces' only supply route out of the city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observator for Human Rights has said.
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Meanwhile, residents in the central province of Homs said rebels also tried on Monday to retake the strategic town of Talkalakh, 4km from Lebanon's northern border. Its capture would allow rebels in the Homs countryside to replenish their supplies.
For weeks, Assad's forces had been on the offensive in Homs, a province they consider vital to securing their hold from Damascus to the president's coastal stronghold.
The coast is home to a large number of Assad's Alawite minority sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam, who are seen to be supportive of the president.
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Sectarian violence has increasingly overtaken a conflict that began as peaceful protests against four decades of Assad family rule but has now become an all-out civil war.
The sectarian dimension of the conflict has drawn in foreign fighters from neighbouring countries. Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah has sent fighters to join Assad's forces, angering Sunni Muslims in Lebanon and the region.
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Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013826124946176888.html
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)of this attack.