Haley: “Only a monster targets civilians and then ensures there are no ambulances to transport the wounded”
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UPDATE 0730 GMT: Russian missiles, fired from a warship or submarine in the Mediterranean, hit a residential building in Idlib Province in northwest Syria on Monday night, killing 17 civilians and injuring more than 150.
After hours of search and rescue operations, the Civil Defence team confirmed 17 civilians killed and 154 wounded, are the victims of the explosion that took place in #Idlib city yesterday. Many still trapped. The search operation for survivors continues. pic.twitter.com/pm7MMv6LeV
— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) April 10, 2018
UPDATE 0630 GMT: Russian officials have pronounced that no one in Douma was hurt by chemical exposure over the weekend.
Russia’s “Center for Reconciliation” declared that, after Russian personnnel visited the town and its medical facilities, “all attempts to spin a war on those charges seek to derail peace efforts”.
Opposition activists warned on Monday that the Russians had moved quickly into Douma to clear any evidence of the Assad regime’s Saturday attacks.
Translation:
We cleared all the evidences. https://t.co/daVpF4NwPc— Dr. Ali Bakeer (@AliBakeer) April 9, 2018
The Assad regime’s chemical attack on Douma, near Syria’s capital Damascus, has brought angry clashes at the UN Security Council.
The US, Britain, France, and six other countries requested Monday’s emergency session over the killing of at least 85 people — many of them women and children — in two attacks on Saturday, one with chlorine and one with a stronger chemical agent.
See VideoCasts: Assad’s Chemical Attacks, Israel’s Strikes, & the US Response
Syria Daily, April 9: 85+ Killed in Regime Chemical Attacks on Douma
US Ambassador Nikki Haley echoed the line from the Trump Administration that it is ready to respond regardless of any Security Council action:
We have reached the moment when the world must see justice done. History will record this as the moment when the Security Council either discharged its duty or demonstrated its utter and complete failure to protect the people of Syria.
Either way, the United States will respond.
Haley said of Bashar al-Assad, “Only a monster targets civilians and then ensures there are no ambulances to transport the wounded”:
"Only a monster targets civilians and then ensures there are no ambulances to transport the wounded." – US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley takes aim at Assad and Russia during the UNSC emergency meeting on Syria following the alleged chemical attack in Douma pic.twitter.com/Xwj0APfqIA
— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) April 9, 2018
Repeating Moscow’s approach over previous chemical attacks by the Assad regime, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, claimed “fake news” and said Russia was ready to fly the inspectors of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — a body whose mandate Moscow limited last autumn after it found the Assad regime responsible for an April 2017 sarin attack in northwest Syria — into Douma.
Nebenzia said any military action against the Assad regime could have “grave repercussions”: “Russia is being unpardonably threatened. The tone with which this is being done has gone beyond the threshold of what is acceptable, even during the Cold War.”
Diplomats said the US plans to call for a Security Council vote on Tuesday to authorize an OPCW inquiry which can attribute responsibility.
They said Russia is likely to veto the resolution.
US: “Quick Action”
Continuing his abrupt shift of position over the Syrian conflict, Donald Trump said Monday that he would make a decision by the end of the day “or very shortly thereafter” on a response: “We can’t let atrocities like we all witnessed….We can’t let that happen in our world…especially when we’re able to because of the power of the United States, the power of our country, we’re able to stop it.”
Last week Trump was calling for a withdrawal of US troops from Syria but he said on Twitter, after watching TV on Sunday morning: “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay.”
Trump made the switch without consulting advisors, who spent Sunday and Monday developing proposals while the President talked of “a lot of options militarily.” He also continued his change of tone over Russia’s Vladimir Putin: asked if Putin might bear responsibility, Trump replied, “He may, yeah, he may. And if he does, it’s going to be very tough, very tough.”
For the second day in a row, Trump spoke with President Emmanuel Macron of France, which had indicated before the weekend that it would intervene against any Assad regime attack with chemicals stronger than chlorine.
Defense Secretary James Mattis said earlier on Monday that no military option was off the table.
The Kremlin said Putin spoke with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany: “The Russian side stressed the unacceptability of provocation and speculation on this matter.”
Berlin swung towards the US, UK, and French position during the day, saying the Assad regime must be held accountable for the chemical attacks.
The Deep State guided puppet Obama into the Kiev Coup, which turned out to be the biggest foreign policy blunder of all time. Now, the Deep State is pushing for WW3 using puppet Trump.
God help us.
Good to see the US having an ass kicker in the person of Nikki Haley with a moral backbone, a so-called woman of color “WOC” as the diversity freaks call it, after all those years of missed opportunities where Obama stuffed this position with women ass lickers. Haley for President 2020!
Nikki Haley is a psycopath and the female version of John Bolton. Fortunately, she is pissing so many people off that she’s becoming irrelevant.
Nikki who?
Here’s an interesting article: on the Russian mercenary company Wagner:
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https://informnapalm.org/en/pulp-fiction-of-pmc-wagner-murderers-drug-addicts-and-rapists-in-putin-s-service/
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Excerpt from the above link:
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“… Some served in Russian special operations units but were fired and served sentences for various crimes. Some were caught on petty thefts, robbery, others were convicted for beatings, for inciting ethnic hatred and beating up foreigners. But some of them have more serious crimes in their records: manufacture and sale of drugs, financial fraud in millions of rubles, rape, kidnapping, and murder. Criminals have become not only convenient raw material for the Kremlin’s hybrid military operations, they are encouraged and motivated by state awards, which are handed over personally by Vladimir Putin.”
As the above article shows the Russian mercenaries fighting in Syria are recruited from the scum (e.g. rapists, thieves, murderers) of Russian society. Which explains why the behaviour of Russian troops in Syria is often appallingly bad (e.g. frequent mistreatment of Syrians).
LOL. Throughout the Iraq War it was widely reported that the US military was recruiting from the scum of the earth from the US, with many having criminal records (e.g. rapists, thieves, murderers) .
Pott meet kettle.
Widely reported in Russia?
So how is it that you know nothing about Hunter Douglas? Is that a fake identity? Where is the email address you promised to give me?
What am I supposed to know about Hunter Douglas that you do?
HD are an umbrella organisation that produces/owns a large range of products and deals through wholesalers who in turn supply to manufacturers, so companies like ours have little to nothing to do with them.
I don’t understand – HD is an umbrella organization? Such as what other companies are part of HD? Then, HD is a manufacturer of end-user products. So how is it that they are selling to other manufacturers? Why would manufacturers buy end-user products? Finally, in your shade installation business, how is it that you don’t carry HD?
Such as what other companies are part of HD?
Luxaflex
Bricos/Mermet
So, is that all? I ask you a series of questions which you can’t answer and then you Google HD and throw me a couple of names, wanting me to believe your charade? Boy you are fake. So why are you so scared of answering my questions? Why can’t you give me an email address so we can take this offline? Because you don’t know what you are talking about.
Haha – Luxaflex is not a subsidiary of HD or part of its group. Luxaflex is just a brand.
Same with Bricos and Mermet. They are just brands and are not affiliated companies. So how is it that you don’t carry any of these products and brands? Do you carry any honeycomb products? Which brands and are they motorized?
Haha – Luxaflex is not a subsidiary of HD or part of its group. Luxaflex is just a brand.
Did you Google that? haha. I guess you have no response to Bricos and Mermet correct?
Same with Bricos and Mermet. They are just brands and are not affiliated companies.
Wrong. They were seperate cvompanies that HD acquired.
So how is it that you don’t carry any of these products and brands?
We don’t carry any brands. The manufacturers and wholesalers do. We deal with a range of suppliers and specify these based on budget,. solution and practicality.
Do you carry any honeycomb products? Which brands and are they motorized?
Nope. Can’t stand honeycomb. They look like shit and I predict they will be gone in the near future.
Are you going to give me your email address (“pointer”) you promised, or not?
No, you clearly don’t even know anything about HD so why waste my time?
Red Cross expert refutes claim that it is possible to know if chemical agents were used from photos: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/effective-killer-five-things-you-need-know-about-chemical-weapons
“When I see a video or a picture, the first thing I think is that we cannot confirm anything. What we can say is that the apparent signs or symptoms on this person could be consistent with persons contaminated with this kind of agent. But we cannot confirm anything. Some of the symptoms could be similar to a natural pulmonary disease. The only thing that allows us to confirm contamination by a chemical warfare agent is taking samples and analyzing them in the lab.”
No reputable specialist or outlet would claim (or has claimed) that video or photos alone confirm chemical exposure.
That is why it is important to consider the evidence of doctors and first responders who deal with victims, as in this case.
So why is Assad and the Russians preventing OPCW from conducting an investigation by denying them access to the site of the gassing?
So why is Assad and the Russians preventing OPCW from conducting an investigation by denying them access to the site of the gassing?
What are you talking about? The Russians are the ones pushing for an OPCW investigation on Douma while the US and it’s allies seem determined to pre-empt the outcome of this investigation with an attack
That is a lie because Russia vetoed OPCW investigations in Syria. UNSC was unable to continue OPCW mandate in Syria, right after it found Assad supported and controlled by Russia the perpetrator of sarin attack in Khan Sheyxun.
Russia vetoed the OPCW investigation of Douma on Tuesday.
Russia vetoed the OPCW investigation of Douma on Tuesday.
Nope. The OPCW investigators are on their way to Douma right now.
USN Carrier strike group 8 which includes the Harry Truman aircraft carrier in addition to the USS Cook already deployed, is on the way to Syria. More time pass more it seems this is gonna be a big operation and not the usual Cruise barrage. And it will be performed by a coalition. Saudi Arabia is in it as France and the UK. Israel will probably jump in too against IRGC forces. Trump canceled its trip to south america to follow the events. Seems this time its not gonna be a hit a go but a real widespread operation. Interesting developments indeed.
Right on. Finally the west is moving against the slaughterer of 400,000 innocent people.
They should bomb his palace and hiding holes. Surely the Israelis know where he is hiding. Also take out a large number of Russians — ooops, we did not know there were Russians in that building.
Putin is not an ideological lowlife like the commies. His #1 priority is regime survival. He is not going to challenge the west with nukes because any nuke war will be the end of him and his regime. As long as he survives and the oligarchs survive, he will bend over to western demands.
They should bomb his palace and hiding holes. Surely the Israelis know where he is hiding.
Not likely. They thought they had captured Nasrallah in 2006 only to find out the idiots on the front line had the wrong guy with the same name.
Also take out a large number of Russians — ooops, we did not know there were Russians in that building.
Grow up Kazemi. It would take nothing for the Russians to sink the Cook or Truman (or both). How would you feel about them saying ooops?
Putin would not be in Syria if he didn’t see Assad’s survival as critical to Russia’s interests. He is not going to back here and he is not going to bend over for the Orangutang in the White House
Lol — your understanding of history is so childish and 1950s ideological. Syria is NOT critical to Russia. Syria is critical to Putin because success there will translate to him receiving nationalist votes as he pretends Russia is a superpower and that US imperialism/colonialism is out to get Russia. All lies in order to garner votes and regime longevity. Putin is a petite tyrant and all he cares is to be president-for-life. He knows very well that Russia is a basket case like Mexico, and if he wants to join the club, he has to have an economy. But just like Erdogan and Maduro and Mugabe, as long as he can rile the sheep against the west with fake news, he is assured a dictatorship. That is his interest in Syria. Once he discovers that Syria is a dead end for him, he will put his tail between the legs and exit with apologies, and cut his losses.
Syria is NOT critical to Russia.
Actually it is and has always been. Syria is critical to the entire region geopolitically.
The rest of your diatribe is an anti intellectual rant that attempts to make this all about Putin.
Andre you keep living in your ignorance or dier hopes that the russians are indeed a super power (not) and that they can pose a threat to the US. You are simply dreaming. Stop this bullshit. You are pathetic.
You sound increasingly desperate Caligola
Russia can destroy the US. US military leaders have admitted ht in the even of a hot war., Russia could wipe out every US navy port in a matter of hours.
No i am very relaxed and in good humour when i get to read posts such as yours….. 🙂 you really do live in la la land. Keep up those dreams of the mighty soviet red army…….ah no sorry we not in the 50s anymore….big lol at you Andre.
Exclusive: Russia doesn’t have firepower to retaliate against Trump, says ex-Putin aide
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-russia-doesnt-firepower-retaliate-trump-says-ex-putin-aide-131405303.html
The article says Russia doesn’t have the financial capability to retaliate to a military intervention in Syria by the US. It says nothing about firepower.
Note. The news feed at the top reads “Stocks jump as Trump backs of imminent strike fo Syria”
Thanks for playing.
Reading comprehension really isn’t your strong suit.
The situation is escalating and getting very dangerous. The Russians are conducting fly bys of the USS Cook and jamming US drones conducting recon over Syria.
Macron is talking all kinds of garbage claiming France would attack Assad’s CW facilities as if to suggest France has known about the existence of these facilities all this time and said nothing.
It’s no surprise that Trump is escalating to this degree the day after John “Bonkers” Bolton took up his position. Trump seems to be playing a very risky game of chicken. Russia is not going to back down because Syria is far more important to their interests and national security than it is to the US, France or Britain.
Whatever you think of the Russian military, they have the capability of inflicting serious damage on this fleet.
“Syria is important to Russia’s interests and national security”? What are you smoking? Must be strong stuff. Syria may be important to Putin’s personal regime longevity, and the army of Russian bot trolls who have no skills and will lose their jobs if Putin is dumped, but Syria means nothing to the Russian people.
So you concede that Russia has a huge interest in Syria — stealing its oil or what? Or is it about importing olives?
One Russian munition that may touch a US fleet, and all of Russian presence in Syria will be pulverized. So bluster is cheap, and Putin isn’t that dumb to want to lose his president-for-life privileges, for a load of some silly Syrian olives or goat dung.
Its getting itchy down there in your soviet hole huh? Its coming and the russians will do jack shit like in deirzzor like with the 100th Israeli bombardment, like the mig taken down by the turks etc etc.You are naive so you cant understand that russia is only based on perceived power.
Its getting itchy down there in your soviet hole huh? Its coming and the russians will do jack shit like in deirzzor like with the 100th Israeli bombardment, like the mig taken down by the turks etc etc.
Jack shit?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/russia-has-figured-out-how-jam-u-s-drones-syria-n863931
You are naive so you cant understand that russia is only based on perceived power.
Yes, perception is everything
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/joseph-dunford-says-russia-is-the-greatest-threat-to-american-security-1006599235729
Thanks for the daily laugh 🙂
I thought it was funny too. All those billions spent on drones and they are only usable against thugs brandishing Kalashnikovs 🙂
Syrian Army Finds White Helmets’ Video Shooting Location: http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970121001313
“Al-Ahd news website reported that the army has discovered a location in the small town of Saqba in Eastern Ghouta that was used by the White Helmets to shoot and produce videos that depict the army as a savage force that kills civilians mercilessly. It further said that the army men found a series of cameras and film-production equipment at the site.”
Ah, yes, today’s “news” from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards outlet….
Treat with appropriate scepticism.
Er…Somebody filmed the footage of the children gasping for air. White Helmets are in the videos taken.
The poison gas was delivered from air, rebels don’t have an airforce and the only ones who have control of the airspace above that area most of the time is Russia and regime ergo basic logic points to either the Russians or the regime. Seriously you Assadists are do dumb that 10 seconds of logic would refute your argument in it’s entirety. Furthermore when you peddle one conspiracy theory after another it’s best not to ignore the laws of science as it makes you look even more ridiculous then you are right now. Seriously Scott why not ban this troll as it’s blatantly obvious he/she is only here to obfuscate the issue with ‘whataboutery’?
The poison gas was delivered from air, rebels don’t have an airforce and the only ones who have control of the airspace above that area most of the time is Russia and regime ergo basic logic points to either the Russians or the regime.
How do you know that K9? Of that’s right you don’t, other than the claims of eye witnesses who claim they saw plane dropping bombs and heard explosions, which is taken to mean CW munitions. Only problem with that theory is that CW munitions don’t carry high explosive charges otherwise the contents of the munitions would be destroyed upon detonation.
I bet you still think those photos of the so called bomb crater in Khan Shaykhun was a created by a CW bomb. That of course has been debunked by the fact that buster charge in a CW munition could not possibly create such a deep crater and if it did, it would incinerate the contents of the CW.
And you call US dumb?
That is a misunderstanding of the nature of the crater, as explained in the final report of the Joint Investigative Mechanism.
The crater was created due to the impact of the warhead on soft soil and also the dispersion charge where the charge is in the tip of the warhead, and goes off upon contact with the ground.
The crater was created due to the impact of the warhead on soft soil and also the dispersion charge where the charge is in the tip of the warhead, and goes off upon contact with the ground.
Wrong.
The ground was asphalt. The dispersion charge on CW monitions is specifically designed to be only just strong enough to tar open the thin casing of the CW munition. Any explosive capable of creating such a deep crater would require an explosive that would destroy the nerve agent compounds.
https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/3171491952364/2017/1/80df08eddb5083f6c469c7adad5ca845/Turkey-says-tests-confirm-nerve-agent-sarin-used-in-Syrian-attack.jpg
Lol – are you saying this mini-crater has been created by a 100 kg bomb or even a 20 kg warhead rocket? Are you nuts?
First off, asphalt is a very soft material, and easily breaks into large chunks that are dug out and dispersed upon impact. Second the dispersion charge must blow the sarin ten or more meters in the air for it to do its job. A small charge cannot do that. It is not a matter of just tearing the casing open — which is not a tin can, I have seen crumpled pictures of such bombs and the sheet metal container is actually a 1/8″ steel plate, which is necessary for handling such munitions and for aerodynamic integrity of the projectile. This whole container must be burst open and the contents dispersed in the atmosphere for tens of meters.
And there is a thick plate between the charge and the content which protects the content from a fireball if any. The charge can be at least 1 kg of HE which is consistent with your picture. Your pseudo-engineering is comic.
are you saying this mini-crater has been created by a 100 kg bomb or even a 20 kg warhead rocket? Are you nuts?
No, I am saying it was a pot hole and not a crater at all.
Asphalt is NOT a very soft material. In fact, we can see from photos of Gaza rockets that they barely make a scratch upon impact from a low explosive.
Second the dispersion charge must blow the sarin ten or more meters in the air for it to do its job.
Ten or more meters? Stop making this up as you go along. We can all see right through it. In fact, the buster charge is most efficient when it detonates in the air. that is how the greatest dispersal of aerosol is achieved
Speaking of “dumb”, here is a perfect example of the dumb evidence being presented.
We are expected to believe that this bomb was dropped from a plane or helicopter, broke through a concrete roof but landed on a bed without damaging it.
https://twitter.com/domihol/status/983327733882204161
What’s more, the bomb is not even under the hole it was supposed to have made
https://twitter.com/domihol/status/983327733882204161
And this from a commie anti-democracy website. The roof does not appear to be reinforced concrete but rather concrete block or some other material. The beams may have been concrete but that is not the roof. The chlorine bomb was arrested by the roof and it is not supposed to explode. There is enough damage in the room to explain this object falling from the sky.
And this from a commie anti-democracy website.
It’s a photo Kazemi. And it can be found all over the internet.
The roof does not appear to be reinforced concrete but rather concrete block or some other material.
WTF are you talking about? Do you have any idea about the nature of concrete and how fragile it is under tensile forces? Please consult an engineer to explain it to you. There is no way in the world any roof would be made of concrete without REO.
That was a training session — for rescuers on what to do if children are affected. That video has been debunked. There is no sign of suffering in the video because they were training rescuers. The video even mentioned that it was a training session.
West promoting chemical false flags as pretext for military action: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/423624-douma-syria-russia-attack/
“The most recent attack, which screams ‘false flag’ like no other, comes as no surprise to many observers. Russia was sounding the alarm last month that US instructors were actively training militants for a “chemical provocation” that would be used as a pretext for carrying out an attack on the Syrian government (Syrian doctors, meanwhile, said they had not received victims with signs of chemical poisoning from Douma, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said no evidence has been found of a chemical weapons attack)…..even the most partial observer would have to agree that the rebels have infinitely more motive than the Assad government to orchestrate an attack against innocents.”
Thank you for today’s disinformation from Russian State outlets.
It is written by an American, Robert Bridge.
Yes, Russian State outlets like to use Americans for their disinfo. “Credibility” and all that, you know….
Yes, Russian State outlets like to use Americans for their disinfo. “Credibility” and all that, you know….
Sp do American outlets. Need we remind you about US media complicity in every war the US has started on the basis of lied beginning with Desert Storm and lies about babies taken out of incubators?
They did indeed find precursors to neurotoxic gas and mobile production rooms for the agent, when Iraq was invaded in 2003. Update your records.
They did indeed find precursors to neurotoxic gas and mobile production rooms for the agent, when Iraq was invaded in 2003.
Wrong. They found NOTHING. ZERO. NADA. That’s why they tried to milk the fact that they came across some forgotten munitions which were way past their use by date.
Update your records.
You are uninformed. There were strings of tractor trailers discovered which had neurotoxic production facilities that could produce sarin or some other neurotoxic agent. Also discovered were precursors to be used by this mobile facility. And Saddam surely had the technology to weaponize the agent.
Admittedly this is not as impressive as what Assad has, but nevertheless it was in violation of his commitments to disarmament, and he was dealt a lesson.
There were strings of tractor trailers discovered which had neurotoxic production facilities that could produce sarin or some other neurotoxic agent.
Those only appeared in cartoons Kazemi. The inspectors debunked that lie.
In another era, he’d be known as a “useful idiot” …
What would you call those in this era who fell for the Iraq WMD BS?
Neurotoxic agents were discovered in Iraq. Today Assad, Kim, and Khamenei are all producing WMDs so they can act as a Mafia state and also to guarantee the regime’s survival.
Nothing was discovered in Iraq, only old munitions that had been discarded from the Iraq/Iraq war of the 1980s.
What WMDs is Khamenei producing? he US hasn’t even gotten around to removing it’s CW stockpiles. It is the mother of Mafia states
Khamenei is producing nuclear bombs. You are uninformed. There were strings of tractor trailers discovered which had neurotoxic production facilities that could produce sarin or some other neurotoxic agent. Also discovered were precursors to be used by this mobile facility. And Saddam surely had the technology to weaponize the agent.
Khamenei is producing nuclear bombs.
Wrong. Wrong Wrong. I don’t know what Scott is allowing this rubbish to be posted here. All 17 US intelligence agencies and Israel’s Intel have concluded Iran have never even attempted to produce a nuke, nor even decided to.
There were strings of tractor trailers discovered which had neurotoxic production facilities that could produce sarin or some other neurotoxic agent.
No there was not. which is why you can’t even produce a link – let alone a credible one – which backs up your lies.
“I don’t know what Scott is allowing this rubbish to be posted here.”
If Scott deleted factual inaccuracies, disinformation, lies, and blatant distortions all your zillion bullshit posts would be gone in a heartbeat. You’re just embarrassing yourself at this point.
If Scott deleted factual inaccuracies, disinformation, lies, and blatant distortions all your zillion bullshit posts would be gone in a heartbeat.
If Scott deleted factual inaccuracies, disinformation, lies, and blatant distortions there wouldn’t be a comments section.
Death to Iran. Death to Iran. Death to Iran. Death to Iran. Pbuh
Try writing this off as Russian propaganda
U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’
Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying ‘the idea is approved by Washington’
Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that use of chemical warfare was ‘totally unacceptable’
http://archive.is/pYxDA
Well, it’s a story from notorious disinfo/conspiracy theory site InfoWars, so treat appropriately….
Oh, wait, it has been dealt with already.
“Daily Mail in £100,000-plus payout over Syrian chemical weapons story: Libel damages paid to defence company for article wrongly linking two executives with sale of weapons to Syria”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jun/26/daily-mail-syrian-chemical-weapons-libel
Well, it’s a story from notorious disinfo/conspiracy theory site InfoWars, so treat appropriately….
Fair point. Can’t stand those morons