A new study from Human Rights Watch is claiming a “systematic” use of chlorine gas as an offensive weapon during the final few weeks of the Aleppo offensive, determining at least eight incidents in which military helicopters dropped such canisters into residential areas.
Over the course of that fighting there were a number of allegations of chlorine gas use by both sides. Though such allegations are not unusual whenever there is heavy fighting, particularly in populated areas where incidental leaks happen in the course of fighting.
Human Rights Watch, however, said that the eight allegations they believe to have been credible suggest they were not isolated incidents but part of a coordinated policy by the military, noting hat each of the drops happened in the immediate prelude to a significant military advance into the same area.
If confirmed, the use of chlorine would be a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, of which Syria is a party. The use of the gas is well short of the sort of chemical weapons Syria had in its arsenal before signing the ban, but still illegal because of the danger of civilian exposure. Human Rights Watch said the attacks may have killed as many as nine people.
Seems implausible, since gas, especially chlorine, is only useful when used in huge quantities, and is an erratic weapon, which means the assaulting troops need gas masks.
Plenty of high explosive to shock and awe, and make an immediate assault relatively safe, sounds more likely.
Implausible to say the least.
I would advise Ditz NEVER to run HR claims without several corroborating lines of evidence.
They have been caught lying for the West a little to often.
HR is a bdand name that is no longer trusted.
AW.C should do better than taking its lies ar face value
No! The more warning we can get that the stage is possibly being set, the better. You can’t shut your eyes and cover your ears and hope that what we predict is happening couldn’t be..
Setting the stage for Trump’s own WMD lies for war.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Soros humanitarians. They cover up and provide excuses for hortible ghings, and keep on making up things if needed. They are doing it because an investigation is being conducted into the years of Al-Nusra control of Aleppo. The ctimes are recorded, with victims and eye witnesses providing testimonies. So, it is time for this rubbish. Sure, it would bave gone unnoticed all this time, until Human Rights Watch discovered it. How else can lying MSM and their owners justify all the crocodile tears they shed for the monsters of Aleppo. Sure, there is ways plenty of money for media games, and humanitarian drama — not ever any for some real needs. They need a lots of things in Aleppo. An emergency ten tons of bread were shipped in. The accusation of the government comes in handy — to avoidi giving one blanket to those that terrorists destroyed. What a rotten world.
If US propagandists decide to use this one then it will be dependent on a willing president. But their lack of attempting to build on it won’t indicate an unwillling president. It will only indicate that it’s weak evidence.
One thing we can depend upon is that the American people will be ready and willing to start the war with Syria that has been postponed too long by Obama.
And we know that there is already solid support for the war on Iran. Both political parties are fully primed for that one.
There is strong evidence that the terrorists and their various “media” operations have fabricated evidence so often that they’re almost worthless as sources, their only value is if they say something happened then it probably didn’t.
HRW and Amnesty are CIA infiltrated propaganda organizations for the War Party in DC
Sadly, AI & HRW are no longer reliable. They’ve joined NYT, WaPo, CNN and FoxNews in the cesspit.
At least we will get further evidence against Trump if this progresses in the way some of us think it will. Trump will have to sign on to the sabre rattling early. Maybe the planned meeting with Putin will be pushed ahead in order to deal with the approaching crisis?
On the positive side, there are indications that the US isn’t going to commit to this quite yet. Another Iraq setup is not going to be nearly as easy to pull off, and besides, Russia and China are blocking the way.