Posted on 09/06/2016 12:51:58 PM PDT by keat
(Reuters) - A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers' organization that operates in rebel-held areas, said government helicopters had dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine on the Sukari neighborhood in eastern Aleppo.
The Syrian government has denied previous accusations it used chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war. The Syrian army could not be immediately reached for comment on the latest allegations.
The Civil Defence said on its Facebook page that 80 people had suffocated. It reported no deaths. It posted a video showing wheezing children doused in water using oxygen masks to breathe.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syrian violence using sources on the ground, said medical sources had reported 70 cases of suffocation.
A United Nations and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inquiry seen by Reuters last month found that Syrian government forces were responsible for two toxic gas attacks in 2014 and 2015 involving chlorine.
The Civil Defence accused the government of two other suspected chlorine gas attacks in August . The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria said it was investigating an August incident.
"Unimaginable crimes are occurring in Aleppo ... pro-government aerial bombardments cause mass civilian casualties," Commission Chairman Paulo Pinheiro told reporters in Geneva. "In government-held areas, indiscriminate ground shelling (by) armed groups ... is also killing scores of civilians," he added.
Aleppo has been one of the areas hardest hit by escalating violence in recent months after the collapse of a partial truce brokered by the United States and Russia in February.
The last false-flag gas attack didn’t work out so well. Are Obama’s team trying again?
Got to get that war going before the election.
Prayers for the innocent victims.
80 people suffocated....no one died????? How does that work?
I’m wondering that, too.
Not another Red Line Alert?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-using-chlorine-gas-iraq-says/
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/urgent-isis-kills-300-iraqi-soldiers-chlorine-gas-attack-saqlawiyah/
https://www.rt.com/news/198796-isis-chlorine-attack-report/
In 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/middleeast/syria-aleppo/index.html
The “opposition forces” IS that held Aleppo for years captured a chlorine facility and had stocks of chlorine to weaponize ... They are conducting a callous false flag to kill women and children in govt-encircled areas of the city to try and draw the West against Assad
No way would Assad use CW
Absolutely NO strategic advantage
Russia is right behind his shoulder
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-using-chlorine-gas-iraq-says/
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/urgent-isis-kills-300-iraqi-soldiers-chlorine-gas-attack-saqlawiyah/
https://www.rt.com/news/198796-isis-chlorine-attack-report/
In 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/middleeast/syria-aleppo/index.html
The “opposition forces” IS that held Aleppo for years captured a chlorine facility and had stocks of chlorine to weaponize ... They are conducting a callous false flag to kill women and children in govt-encircled areas of the city to try and draw the West against Assad
No way would Assad use CW
Absolutely NO strategic advantage
Russia is right behind his shoulder
Suffocation: definition, to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
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If 70 people suffocated then 70 people died.
If they aren’t dead, they weren’t suffocated.
Well was it ISIS trying to blame Assad?
Who are you kidding about a red line? It’s more pinkish-white.
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