Terrorism

100-page Russian report: Syrian rebels conducted chemical attack in March

UN2According to a 100-page report delivered to the United Nations, Syrian rebels are responsible for a little-reported sarin gas attack in March 2013, The Blaze reported.

“According to a statement posted to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s site late Wednesday, the March 19, incident in Khan al Asal, a town outside the city of Aleppo, was the reason U.N. investigators were in Syria when the Aug. 21 attack took place,” The Blaze said.

McClatchy added:

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Russia said its investigation of the March 19 incident was conducted under strict protocols established by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international agency that governs adherence to treaties prohibiting the use of chemical weapons. It said samples that Russian technicians had collected had been sent to OPCW-certified laboratories in Europe.

The Russian statement warned the United States and its allies not to conduct a military strike against Syria until the United Nations had completed a similarly detailed scientific study into the Aug. 21 attack. It warned that what it called the current “hysteria” about a possible military strike in the West was similar to the false claims and poor intelligence that preceded the United States invasion of Iraq.

“The Russian report is specific,” the ministry statement said. “It is a scientific and technical document.”

According to reports, 26 people died in the attack and 86 were injured.

“There was no immediate comment from the United States,” Dave Urbanski wrote.

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