BBC shown 'signs of chemical attack'
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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2013 · People & Blogs
A BBC news team has travelled to a town in northern Syria which eyewitnesses claim has been attacked with poisonous gas. Would you like to know more? CHP deputies: Gov’t rejects probe into Turkey’s role in Syrian chemical attack (todayszaman, Oct 21, 2015) http://www.todayszaman.com/national_chp-deputies-govt-rejects-probe-into-turkeys-role-in-syrian-chemical-attack_402180.html Syria conflict: BBC shown 'signs of chemical attack' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22549861 "The BBC has been shown evidence apparently corroborating reports of a chemical attack in Syria last month. A BBC correspondent who visited the northern town of Saraqeb was told by eyewitnesses that government helicopters had dropped at least two devices containing poisonous gas. The government has vehemently denied claims it has used chemical agents ... Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commanding officer at the UK's Joint Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Regiment, said the testimony and evidence from Saraqeb was "strong, albeit incomplete". In Saraqeb and in three similar events in Syria in recent weeks, "people have got ill and died and their symptoms are what we would expect to see from a nerve type of agent, be it sarin or be it organophosphate," Mr de Bretton-Gordon said. On the available evidence, recent attacks in al-Otaybeh to the east of Damascus, in Adra near the town of Douma, and in the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo appear "virtually identical" to what happened in Saraqeb, according to Mr de Bretton-Gordon. Mr de Bretton-Gordon has not visited the site or tested any of the alleged evidence but was given full access to the material gathered by the BBC. Both the US and UK have spoken of growing evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. Rebel fighters have also been accused of using them. They also have denied this..." UN's Carla Del Ponte Stupefied By Syrian Opposition Sarin Use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmX5sJktyC8 This Is Not Being Hyped At Any Level... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN9VzyUDy0c
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