Why do we have to go abroad to find out the truth? Why has not one US news agency reported that the Syrian rebels are suspected by the UN of having used Sarin. In a BBC post dated May 6
Carla Del Ponte of the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria told Swiss television;
"According to their report of last week, which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated." and "I was a little bit stupefied by the first indications we got... they were about the use of nerve gas by the opposition."
From the same post;
On Monday, Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said it was deeply concerned by "signs that world public opinion is being prepared for possible military intervention" in Syria.
On the question of whether chemical weapons had been used, he called for an "end to the politicisation of this issue" and to the "whipping up of an anti-Syrian atmosphere".
Evidently the Russian spokesman's fear was well founded.
From the Russian news agency RT.com dated May 30.
Turkish security forces found a 2kg cylinder with sarin gas after searching the homes of Syrian militants from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front who were previously detained, Turkish media reports. The gas was reportedly going to be used in a bomb.
The sarin gas was found in the homes of suspected Syrian Islamists detained in the southern provinces of Adana and Mersia following a search by Turkish police on Wednesday, reports say. The gas was allegedly going to be used to carry out an attack in the southern Turkish city of Adana.
On Monday, Turkish special anti-terror forces arrested 12 suspected members of the Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda affiliated group which has been dubbed "the most aggressive and successful arm” of the Syrian rebels. The group was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in December.
None of this proves Assad's innocence but accusations from some members of Congress that the Obama administration is only telling one side of the story are certainly true.
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