Syria Envoy Alleges Rebel Gas Attack, Demands U.N. Investigate

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria’s U.N. envoy asked the United Nations on Wednesday to order chemical experts in Damascus to investigate three rebel attacks in which he said Syrian troops “inhaled poisonous gas,” while Britain pushed for the Security Council to act on the crisis.

The United Nations has received at least 14 reports of possible chemical weapons use during Syria’s two-year civil war, and after months of diplomatic wrangling a team of experts, led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, arrived in Syria on August 18.

The U.N. team led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom was initially going to look into three of those incidents, but its priority became investigating an alleged gas attack in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus last week, which activists say killed hundreds of civilians.

Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said he has written to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ask that Sellstrom’s team also “investigate three heinous incidents that took place in the countryside of Damascus on (August) 22nd, 24th and 25th where members of the Syrian army inhaled poisonous gas.”


Read more: http://www.firstpost.com/world/syria-envoy-alleges-rebel-gas-attack-demands-u-n-investigate-1067999.html

[GeorgeGist]

1. Hey look over here ...

It's a Clusterfuck.

[RobertEarl]

2. Why, yes it is!

Let's jump in!

Let's show that our last president, Bush, still has lots of respect....
From the warmongers.

Fuck Bush and Cheney. Put them in jail, already.

[leveymg]

3. There was also an earlier rebel Sarin attack and use of Chlorine gas back in March, April.

Didn't get a lot of play in the MSM because the casualties were relatively limited.

U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator
GENEVA | Sun May 5, 2013 6:13pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/05/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBRE94409Z20130505

(Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.

Syria’s Civil War: The Mystery Behind a Deadly Chemical Attack (Chlorine)
By Aryn Baker @arynebakerApril 01, 2013
Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/04/01/syrias-civil-war-the-mystery-behind-a-deadly-chemical-attack/#ixzz2dIWUIAV1

[David__77]

5. I think it didn't get play because it was more clear that AQ did it.

It didn't fit the narrative. So the white house, while it immediately lied and condemned the government, dropped the matter pretty quickly.

[Javaman]

4. Let's see if our govenment and the UN (aka one and the same) allow this to be investigated.

Let's hope.