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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:54AM   Printer-friendly

The Syrian government has once again been accused of attacking a rebel-held area with chemical weapons:

A suspected Syrian government chemical attack killed scores of people, including children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a monitoring group, medics and rescue workers in the rebel-held area said.

The Syrian military denied responsibility and said it would never use chemical weapons.

The head of the health authority in rebel-held Idlib said more than 50 people had been killed and 300 wounded. The Union of Medical Care Organizations, a coalition of international aid agencies that funds hospitals in Syria, said at least 100 people had died.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack killed at least 58 people and was believed to have been carried out by Syrian government jets. It caused many people to choke, and some to foam at the mouth.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer blamed the attack on the "weakness and irresolution" of the previous U.S. administration.

Also at BBC, NYT, Fox News, the Washington Post, and The Hill.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @01:14AM (#489441)

    Maybe the USA is not the centre of the Earth after all? Could be no-one getting bombed daily gives the tiniest shit who Bannon is or what Trump promises.

    Neither Bannon or Trump started this. They are not oligarchs and (from stated positions) they do not support slaughtering muslims en-mass in order to advance a globalist geopolitical agenda. It's not worth the western world fighting over. [wikipedia.org] Russia has a nominal GDP more or less equal to that of Italy, they are simply not a serious global threat.