Russia Says Rebels May Have Staged Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack
Source: REUTERS
* Russia calls for investigation into alleged chemical attack
* Says rocket was released from area controlled by opposition
* Alleged attack could be "provocation" (Adds details, quotes)
MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry called for a thorough investigation on Wednesday into reports that Syrian government forces had launched a chemical attack, suggesting that rebels could have staged the assault to provoke international action.
Syria's opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of gassing many hundreds of people - by one report as many as 1,300 - on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world's worst chemical weapons attack in decades.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said that its sources in Syria said that a homemade rocket carrying unidentified chemical substances had been launched from an area controlled by the opposition.
"All this cannot but suggest that once again we are dealing with a pre-planned provocation," Lukashevich said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.trust.org/item/20130821155453-ycrwu
I agree that these reports are suspicious, indeed.
Assad has no reason to use chemcial weapons at a time when UN inspectors are on the ground in Syria and because...he is winning against the militant rebels.
Just doesn't add up...
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)announced the US would for now take no further steps toward direct military involvement in Syria because the opposition is seen to be actually more dangerous to US interests than the Assad regime.
Comes at a time that UN inspectors are in Damascus, at the government's invitation.
Comes at a time that the opposition has been set a series of defeats on the battlefield.
Indeed, this doesn't add up except as a provocation and a desperate effort to turn things around by any means necessary.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)these Jordanian troop columns, if there were any reality to these reports. This stuff from Debka may be psyops.
jessie04
(1,528 posts)nt
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Why in the world are we again helping Saudi-backed terrorists? Have we learned nothing?
jessie04
(1,528 posts)Screw Assad
Screw the Rebels
Screw Al-queda in Syria.
They are all murderers.
Only the innocent people there gets my deepest sympathy.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)jessie04
(1,528 posts)I have no problem if Assad, the rebels and al queda literally kill each other off and leave the innocent people alone.
Go ahead guys, feel free to kill each other off.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Its always innocent civilian populations that pay the highest price.
I know what you mean, though.
jessie04
(1,528 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)they die of starvation, disease, crime, etc. Not to mention lost homes, businesses, jobs, families broken up, education opportunities lost.
jessie04
(1,528 posts)You're right.... I still like my theory better though. 
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)While they're killing each other they wont be as focused on killing us or other westerners.
As for a set up, its not like al queda would have any problem killing children to further their cause. They've done it hundreds of times elsewhere.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)That makes us part of the murder.
Just walk away, President Obama. Walk away, and don't look back.
jessie04
(1,528 posts)Call us when the last idiot dies and the normal people survive.
David__77
(23,320 posts)This can be done readily through applying the appropriate pressure on Turkey and Jordan. Or, perhaps there will be an Egyptian solution in Turkey; if so, peace will come to Syria in a matter of months.
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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MIC,
which by the way,
pretty much runs the USA,
would disappear without constant war.
USA/MIC thrive on war.
(sigh)
CC
jessie04
(1,528 posts)it can be done but would require a major investment in manpower.
ashling
(25,771 posts)
I figured I had better use the thingee or somebody would take that literally. Literally.
7962
(11,841 posts)was because of ONE WORD. And it was termed disruptive, over the top and rude. And i was referred to mirt. And it was a joking thread to top it off. The awful, terrible, insensitive word? Teleprompter!!
cqo_000
(313 posts)AFP
The Vatican on Thursday called for caution over opposition allegations that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an attack in the suburbs of Damascus -- a charge denied by the authorities.
"There should not be a judgement until there is sufficient proof," Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer at the United Nations in Geneva, said in an interview with Vatican radio.
"What immediate interest would the government in Damascus have in causing such a tragedy?" he asked, adding that the real question was: "Who does this inhuman crime really benefit?"
Tomasi also restated the Vatican's opposition to armed intervention in Syria, calling for negotiations "without preconditions" and a "transition government."
http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-urges-caution-over-syria-chemical-arms-claims-210136668.html
Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)They have been on the wrong side for quite awhile. They support the regimes of both Syria and North Korea that slaughter people. If that isn't enough then their anti-gay laws just in time for the Olympics should make you wonder.