Gas attack without Assad's permission?

[Hoffstra]

Syrian forces may have used gas without Assad's permission: paper

Its now possible that the gas attack took place without Assad's consent.

Just one more reason NOT to attack!!

 

[waltky]

How long it gonna take while he goes on killing his people?...

Assad Denies Link to Chemical Attack, Vows to Give Up Arsenal
September 18, 2013 ~ Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his government will honor an agreement to dispose of its chemical arsenal, but denies his forces launched a gas attack last month said to have killed more than 1000 people near Damascus.

In an interview with the U.S. network Fox News, Assad promised to abide by a deal reached by U.S. and Russian envoys aimed at liquidating the chemical stockpiles. He said destruction of the weapons would cost $1 billion and would take about a year. The interview, aired Wednesday, was conducted in Damascus by a Fox correspondent and former U.S. lawmaker Dennis Kucinich, who is now an analyst for the network.

Assad also insisted his government is not fighting a civil war. He described the two-year conflict as "a new kind of war" pitting government forces against Islamist fighters from more than 80 countries. He also said "80 to 90 percent of the underground terrorists are al-Qaida and their offshoots."

Assad urged U.S. President Barack Obama to refrain from military threats against his government, and urged the U.S. leader to, in his words, "listen to the common sense of your people." Those comments appeared aimed at highlighting U.S. opinion polls showing strong public opposition to threatened military strikes to punish the Syrian government for a poison gas attack against civilians on August 21.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said evidence gathered by U.N. investigators "indisputably" and "overwhelmingly" confirms the use of the nerve agent sarin on a relatively large scale. U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western leaders cite intelligence and witness accounts showing the attack killed 1,400 people in a rebel-held Damascus suburb, Ghouta. They allege Assad's forces launched the attack - a charge Assad denies and Russia and China dispute. The Assad government blames the attack on rebels.

Assad Denies Link to Chemical Attack, Vows to Give Up Arsenal

 

[dilloduck]

How long it gonna take while he goes on killing his people?...

Assad Denies Link to Chemical Attack, Vows to Give Up Arsenal
September 18, 2013 ~ Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his government will honor an agreement to dispose of its chemical arsenal, but denies his forces launched a gas attack last month said to have killed more than 1000 people near Damascus.

In an interview with the U.S. network Fox News, Assad promised to abide by a deal reached by U.S. and Russian envoys aimed at liquidating the chemical stockpiles. He said destruction of the weapons would cost $1 billion and would take about a year. The interview, aired Wednesday, was conducted in Damascus by a Fox correspondent and former U.S. lawmaker Dennis Kucinich, who is now an analyst for the network.

Assad also insisted his government is not fighting a civil war. He described the two-year conflict as "a new kind of war" pitting government forces against Islamist fighters from more than 80 countries. He also said "80 to 90 percent of the underground terrorists are al-Qaida and their offshoots."

Assad urged U.S. President Barack Obama to refrain from military threats against his government, and urged the U.S. leader to, in his words, "listen to the common sense of your people." Those comments appeared aimed at highlighting U.S. opinion polls showing strong public opposition to threatened military strikes to punish the Syrian government for a poison gas attack against civilians on August 21.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said evidence gathered by U.N. investigators "indisputably" and "overwhelmingly" confirms the use of the nerve agent sarin on a relatively large scale. U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western leaders cite intelligence and witness accounts showing the attack killed 1,400 people in a rebel-held Damascus suburb, Ghouta. They allege Assad's forces launched the attack - a charge Assad denies and Russia and China dispute. The Assad government blames the attack on rebels.

Assad Denies Link to Chemical Attack, Vows to Give Up Arsenal

It's Obama's call--you're going to have to ask him.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Actually , how long it takes to get rid of the chemical weapons arsenal is not up to any one group. The UN has to send in people to dispose of them. The Rebels say they are not going to allow it. We may have attacks by Rebels on the intl officials.

 

[Roudy]

Ya right, the same guy who's been shooting at his people from warplanes and tanks, and leveling entire village, having killed over a 100,000 so far, isn't responsible for gassing those that are fighting against him.

Yes. The victims gassed themselves, including over 400 of their own kids while they were sleeping. Makes total sense.

These are the same mentally ill psychopaths and lunatics who think that "the Jews did 9-11". They always crawl out from under the rocks with crazy shit like this after every tragedy or atrocity.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

The report in the OP has been circulating in German media for weeks, that the attack was carried out by generals who did not have the authority of Assad when the attack was launched. Maybe, it is true. Maybe not.

 

[Roudy]

The report in the OP has been circulating in German media for weeks, that the attack was carried out by generals who did not have the authority of Assad when the attack was launched. Maybe, it is true. Maybe not.

So the Generals did it did it without Assad's approval? Then why is Assad is claiming that NOBODY in the govt. did it.

And what difference does it really make? Nobody is claiming that Assad actually carried out the attack himself. His army did. And the evidence is irrefutable that Assad and the higher ups in the govt. ordered it. Even the Russians and Iranians admit to it.