Posted on 12/13/2016 6:12:27 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Palmyra: 'Chemical gas attack' hits IS-held Syrian area
12 December 2016
Dozens of people have been killed in air strikes and a suspected gas attack near the Syrian city of Palmyra, monitoring groups say.
The targeted area is controlled by the so-called Islamic State group and has been under heavy bombardment from government-aligned forces.
Dozens of people are said to have been killed during the combined assaults.
IS members recaptured the city on Sunday, hours after Russian air strikes appeared to have driven them back.
Sources in Hama province reported seeing dead bodies with no visible injuries, according to the UK-based group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The death toll was put at at least 40 by one citizens' group in Hama province.
The Syrian government and its Russian backers have previously denied using chemical weapons.
IS was previously driven out of the ancient desert city of Palmyra in March with the support of Russian air strikes, but the jihadist group seized it again in a sudden assault that started last week.
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Sounds like insufficient evidence to me.
Only reports of a chemical attack I’m finding are in British media outlets.
FWIW, this story in the Indonesian press has more details...
All exploding bombs are “chemical gas attacks,” and dying from one or the other is still dying.
The “ Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ is a shopkeeper in Coventry England who hasn’t been to SYRIA for many years.
Funny how when the “ rebels” need a red line to try to entice the West into sympathy and support,, civilians under their control tend to suffer from chemical attacks
That being said, use of chemical weapons could be used as an argument for intervention. Which is why, I suspect, this report, FWIW, is out there.
Interesting that the British media aren’t sourcing the report.
Twitter probably
ISIS never loses its ability to tweet
Sincel the libs couldnt disprove that Saddam really did have “chemical weapons” and killed entire Kurdish communities with them, the world has conveniently forgot that “chemical weapons” are, by definition, “weapons of mass destruction”.
Now they are scattered all over the Arab desert. This is Obama’s last chance at his newkular legacy. Weapons free.
Any one?
Beuller ??
So-called islamic state?
Is that like we used to say so-called Nazi Germany?
I dispise the fake legacy media.
Doesn’t look like the enemedia has ever taken a critical look at the SOHR. Not its personnel or its funding. Gee, wonder why. ?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-using-chlorine-gas-iraq-says/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/19/middleeast/isis-chemical-weapons/index.html
Easy enough for ISIS or other militias to use chlorine and other chemicals seized when they had control of water treatment and other industrial sites
Duelfer Report on Chemical Weapons in Iraq
The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
Yeah, I know. FAKE NEWS from a decade agao......
Quoting a very famous American,
“Frankly my dear i don’t give a damn”.
1000 or so years these fools have been murdering each other.
And No amount of edumacation, money, or anything we do will change a thing.
Let em kill each other.
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