United Nations investigators looking into allegations of chemical weapons use in the Syrian conflict say early indications are that the rebel opposition, not the Assad regime, deployed the nerve agent sarin.
The alleged use of chemical weapons drew international attention after President Obama declared it a “red line” for the Assad regime, crossing which would trigger unspecified military action. Advocates of intervention into Syria’s civil war used the allegations to rally support for military action.
But the UN independent commission of inquiry on Syria “has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons,” Reuters reported commission member Carla Del Ponte as saying.
“Our investigators have been in neighbouring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in an interview.
“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added.
The commission released a formal statement clarifying Del Ponte’s statements, saying they have “not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict.”
These initial findings can be expected to somewhat deflate arguments for intervention against the Assad government, especially since hastening the end of the regime might help bring Syria’s rebel militias, who apparently have few qualms about chemical weapons use, to power.
Sarin gas was supplied by way of mossad.why do you think they say, “that we have proof that Assad used it against his people”
This is no suprise for war lord Obama, since he surly knows of the news about the leaked e-mails by the hacking a british defense contractor. They got the offer to ship poison gas shells from Libya, of the same/similar Soviet type in Syria. Which should be delivered to the rebels and that – obviously for a faked video – the defense contractors should use its "Ukrainan Russians" to produce a related video.
It was, as far I remember a Saudi e-mail, but they did write that they definitely have USA approval doing this.
Actually I did sent it already here – check my profile for my older postings, and I guess you will find the link.
Carla Del Ponte will now definitely be banned from the US list of "approved" experts. She already ticked off the empire when she published information about her work in Hague as prosecutor. She pursued the fate of captured Serbs from Kosovo and uncovered a massive organ trafficking ring. And she investigated one such organ harvesting site in Albania, so called "yellow house". In spite of her investigators being on a trail of such horrendous crime — kidnapping and killing people for organs — they were stopped from further work. First came order that they cannot get into the house itself. But they scoured the grounds and found plenty of evidence, including medical waste, and makeshift graveyards. While the house was already repainted white to counter the evidence given by secret witnesses — investigators saw that the sloppy paint job did not cover all yellow paint. Del Ponte submitted evidence to Hague, and they destroyed it! Presumably, they had no mandate in Albania! Then her evidence was pursued by Swiss prosecutor Dick Marti — with another cover up of his report. She is now telling the truth — but nobody wants to hear it.
Now, our leaders are debating on whether we should be arming the rebels – as opposed to just supporting them…whatever that's supposed to mean.
So, let me get this straight. Syria is defending it's self against terrorists. The same terrorists we used to topple Libya – that caused a genocide of 50,000 black Libyans and destroyed the Switzerland of Africa – that claim the US is next after Syria – that we created to drag the Soviets into Afghanistan – run and trained by the CIA with orders and cash from our President…which makes Obama the leader of Al Qaeda.
All the while, Israel kills Palestinians and takes their land – with no mention about us putting an end to that genocide.
I've already seen the video of these insurgent terrorists gassing rabbits.
I like rabbits.
And the world wide war on terror will be proven the hoax that it is the minute Americans realize we are supporting our enemy….again.
Let's not forget that we are getting our propaganda from the same war criminals and media that lied us into Iraq and Vietnam.
Bush said, "You're either with us…or the terrorists."
He should have said,"You're either with us and the terrorists or you're against us and the terrorists."
We should be helping Syria fight the terrorists….
And save the rabbits.
the state department was busy last night making phone calls to do damage control from the report that the "rebels" were the ones to use WMD