{"article":{"id":264029,"heading":""Proof of chemical attack": Same old lies ahead of the presidential election in Syria","author":"Cem Ert\u00fcr","created":"2014-05-03 15:23:27","modified":"2014-05-03 15:23:27","last_modified":"Sat, 03 May 2014 23:23:27","article":"





\"Proof\r\nof chemical attack\": Same old lies ahead of the presidential\r\nelection in Syria\r\n



\r\nPropaganda alert

\r\ncompiled by Cem Ertür

\r\n3 May 2014






In\r\na desperate attempt to sabotage\r\nthe upcoming presidential\r\nelection in Syria, the mass\r\nmedia constantly reiterate the same old lies about\r\n“chemical weapon attacks”. They must be held to\r\naccount for their major role in the three-year long NATO-led genocidal\r\nwar on Syria.
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\r\nDaily Telegraph, 30 April 2014




Syria\r\nchemical weapons: the proof that Assad regime launching chlorine\r\nattacks on children

by\r\nRuth Sherlock, Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2014\r\n<\/span>



\r\nPresident Bashar al-Assad is still using chemical weapons against\r\ncivilians, a scientific analysis of samples from multiple gas attacks\r\nhas shown. In the first independent testing of its\r\nkind,conducted exclusively for The Telegraph, soil samples from the\r\nscene of three recent attacks in the country were collected by trained\r\nindividuals known to this news organisation and analysed by a chemical\r\nwarfare\r\nexpert. Our results show sizeable and unambiguous traces of chlorine\r\nand ammonia present at the site of all three attacks.\r\n









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\r\nWashington Post, 1 May 2014




U.S.\r\nofficials say Syria is using remaining chemical weapons stockpile as\r\nleverage

by\r\nErnesto Londono and Greg Miller, Washington Post, 30 April 2014<\/span>



The\r\nmonths-long effort to\r\ndismantle Syria's chemical weapons program has ground to a halt because\r\nSyria is holding on to 27 tons of sarin precursor chemicals as leverage\r\nin a dispute with the international community over the future of\r\nfacilities used to store the\r\ndeadly agents, according to U.S. officials.\r\n


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\r\nHaaretz (English edition), 30 April 2014




Israeli\r\nintelligence: Assad\r\nconcealing chemical capability<\/span>\r\n

by Amos Harel, Haaretz, 30 April\r\n2014<\/p>\r\n

Israeli\r\nintelligence is afraid that the regime of President Bashar Assad in\r\nSyria is acting to conceal a small\r\npercentage of the chemical weapons in its possession, while misleading\r\nthe international community. This assessment joins similar ones heard\r\nin the past two weeks from intelligence sources\r\nin the United States\r\nand Great Britain, and which have been cited in the international\r\nmedia.











<\/div>\r\nJerusalem Post (English edition), 23 April 2014




US\r\nsuggests Syria violated\r\nChemical Weapons Convention\r\n<\/span>
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by\r\nMichael Wilner,\r\nJerusalem Post,\r\n23 April 2014<\/span>



Syria\r\nmay have violated\r\na United Nations convention against\r\nthe use of chemical weapons only seven months after joining the treaty,\r\nthe US suggested on\r\nTuesday. The claims came after reports surfaced last week that Syrian\r\nPresident\r\nBashar Assad’s forces might have deployed chlorine on the\r\nbattlefield. At least two died in the alleged chemical assault on a\r\nvillage in a rebel-held\r\narea, while dozens of others were wounded.\r\n
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<\/div>\r\nLibération,\r\n27 March 2014\r\n




Syria:\r\nA rock-solid\r\nevidence on sarin gas  <\/span>\r\n

by Luc Mathieu,\r\nLibération, 26 March 2014<\/p>\r\n[excerpt translated from French by Cem Ertür]





\r\nIn April 2013, when the use of\r\nchemical weapons by al-Assad was still in dispute,\r\n«Libération» collected witness\r\ntestimonies of a possible sarin gas attack. Now, they have been\r\nofficially confirmed. So, the red line had already\r\nbeen\r\ncrossed almost one year ago. Classified\r\nas «Confidential Defence», the\r\nreport on the sample analysis (of gravels collected on the spot on\r\nApril 27 and\r\nbrought to France\r\non May 4, 2013 by a special correspondent of our newspaper) confirms\r\nbeyond any doubt the use of sarin gas, which is an\r\nodourless\r\nneurotoxin.\r\n
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NATO\r\nand Turkey’s genocidal war on Syria

\r\nby\r\nCem Ertür, Axis of Logic, 7 April 2014


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