Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' near Damascusl

[ScienceRocks]

Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' near Damascus


A doctor at one of the field hospitals where victims are being treated Doctors in makeshift hospitals explained patients' symptoms in footage uploaded to YouTube

Chemical weapons attacks have killed dozens on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists claim.

Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region in the early hours of Wednesday morning, they say.

BBC News - Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' near Damascus

 

[Lipush]

The rebels report about thousand dead

 

[ScienceRocks]

Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

BBC News - Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

Chemical weapons attacks have killed hundreds on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists say.

Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say.

State-run news agency Sana said the claims were "baseless" and an attempt to distract UN weapons inspectors.

The main opposition alliance said that more than 650 people had been killed by the attacks.

Activist networks also reported death tolls in the hundreds, but these could not be independently confirmed.

 

[Lipush]

Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

BBC News - Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

Chemical weapons attacks have killed hundreds on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists say.

Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say.

State-run news agency Sana said the claims were "baseless" and an attempt to distract UN weapons inspectors.

The main opposition alliance said that more than 650 people had been killed by the attacks.

Activist networks also reported death tolls in the hundreds, but these could not be independently confirmed.

Where is Obama's "Red line", now?

Why no one says anything?

 

[Katzndogz]

The rebels are using chemical weapons and blaming Assad forces for it. That's what they did last time.

 

[High_Gravity]

Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

BBC News - Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

Chemical weapons attacks have killed hundreds on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists say.

Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say.

State-run news agency Sana said the claims were "baseless" and an attempt to distract UN weapons inspectors.

The main opposition alliance said that more than 650 people had been killed by the attacks.

Activist networks also reported death tolls in the hundreds, but these could not be independently confirmed.

Where is Obama's "Red line", now?

Why no one says anything?

He didn't really mean it when he said that.

 

[Katzndogz]

When you see victims as mainly women and children with the male victims being mostly older, this is an act of the rebels who are using the dead for propaganda but not losing their fighters.

The videos show victims, including many children, having convulsions. Others are apparently immobile and have difficulty breathing.

The BBC has not been able to authenticate the footage fully, but based on additional checks made, it is believed to be genuine.

"Many of the casualties are women and children. They arrived with their pupils dilated, cold limbs and foam in their mouths," a nurse at a Duma medical facility, Bayan Baker, told Reuters.

 

[High_Gravity]

How did the rebels get their hands on chemical weapons? if this is true, the rebels are winning than right?

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

So now America is now bankrolling terrorists murdering men, women and children with chemical weapons. What's next, Obama? How much more war mongering do you intend to do before you admit you were wrong to back these rebels in the first place???!!! Isn't your Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt murdering enough people already? Are you now going for a Guiness World Record here or what?!

 

[ScienceRocks]

I predict the entire region will inflame into a major war during the next few years.

 

[Katzndogz]

obama's brother is muslim brotherhood.

Obama?s brother linked to Muslim Brotherhood

In a news report on Egyptian television of a Gebali speech, translated by researcher Walid Shoebat, a former Palestinian Liberation Organization operative, Gebali said she would like “to inform the American people that their president’s brother Obama is one of the architects of the major investments of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

“We will carry out the law, and the Americans will not stop us,” she said. “We need to open the files and begin court sessions.

“The Obama administration cannot stop us; they know that they supported terrorism,” she continued. “We will open the files so these nations are exposed, to show how they collaborated with [the terrorists]. It is for this reason that the American administration fights us.”

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Why does this news not surprise me??!!!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Obama is supporting a extremist take over of these countries...You can just imagine what he feels about America.

America no longer stands for freedom.

 

[Meister]

Perhaps these chemicals that are being used were from Iraq prior to the US invasion.
There were reports of truck caravans from Iraq to Syria just prior to to the invasion.

 

[Katzndogz]

We don't know whether rebels are using these weapons or even if chemical weapons were used at all. So far, all we have is al quaeda's word for it.

 

[Meister]

Why does this news not surprise me??!!!

Obama has given Syria a pass from day one, Syria knows he will do nothing because Obama is weak on foreign policy.

 

[Meister]

We don't know whether rebels are using these weapons or even if chemical weapons were used at all. So far, all we have is al quaeda's word for it.

Rumor has it that Obama will open up an investigation to get to the bottom of this.

 

[Osomir]

Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

BBC News - Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks' kill hundreds

Chemical weapons attacks have killed hundreds on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists say.

Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say.

State-run news agency Sana said the claims were "baseless" and an attempt to distract UN weapons inspectors.

The main opposition alliance said that more than 650 people had been killed by the attacks.

Activist networks also reported death tolls in the hundreds, but these could not be independently confirmed.

Where is Obama's "Red line", now?

Why no one says anything?

It's a little early to be condemning Obama for not "doing anything" about this yet. A little patience is needed. Verrification and policy formation don't happen instantly.

 

[Osomir]

When you see victims as mainly women and children with the male victims being mostly older, this is an act of the rebels who are using the dead for propaganda but not losing their fighters.

The videos show victims, including many children, having convulsions. Others are apparently immobile and have difficulty breathing.

The BBC has not been able to authenticate the footage fully, but based on additional checks made, it is believed to be genuine.

"Many of the casualties are women and children. They arrived with their pupils dilated, cold limbs and foam in their mouths," a nurse at a Duma medical facility, Bayan Baker, told Reuters.

A little early to be jumping to conclusions.

As rebels, they are generally less likely to go through formal medical institutions. Plus seeing a rebel die isn't as heartbreaking to most as watching children convulse.

 

[Osomir]

Why does this news not surprise me??!!!

Obama has given Syria a pass from day one, Syria knows he will do nothing because Obama is weak on foreign policy.

Tell that to Gaddafi.