Serious Nice VX Baby Oil killed at least 58 in Syria

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Syria 'toxic gas' attack rises to 58: Monitor
Posted 04 Apr 2017 15:14 Updated 04 Apr 2017 17:28

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BEIRUT: Warplanes carried out a suspected toxic gas attack that killed at least 58 people including several children in a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria on Tuesday (Apr 4), a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in the town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, had died from the effects of the gas, adding that dozens more suffered respiratory problems and other symptoms.

The Britain-based monitoring group was unable to confirm the nature of the substance, and said it was unclear if the planes involved in the attack were Syrian or those of government ally Russia.

The reported gas attack comes at the start of a two-day conference on Syria's future hosted in Brussels by the European Union and the United Nations.

The Observatory said medical sources in the town reported symptoms among the affected including fainting, vomiting and foaming at the mouth.

The victims were mostly civilians, it said, and included at least nine children.

Photographs circulated by activists showed members of the volunteer White Helmets rescue group using hoses to wash down the injured, as well as at least two men with white foam around their mouths.

Idlib province is largely controlled by an alliance of rebels including former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front.

It is regularly targeted in strikes by the government, as well as Russian warplanes, and has also been hit by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, usually targeting militants.

Syria's government officially joined the Chemical Weapons Convention and turned over its chemical arsenal in 2013, as part of a deal to avert US military action.

But there have been repeated allegations of chemical weapons use by the government since then, with a UN-led investigation pointing the finger at the regime for at least three chlorine attacks in 2014 and 2015.

The government denies the use of chemical weapons and has in turn accused rebels of using banned weapons.

Tuesday's attack comes only days after forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were accused of using chemical weapons in a counter-offensive in neighbouring Hama province.

The opposition accused the government forces of using "toxic substances" in its battle to repel the assault.

On Thursday, air strikes on several areas in the north of Hama province left around 50 people suffering respiratory problems, according to the Observatory, which could not confirm the cause of the symptoms.

The monitor relies on a network of sources inside Syria for its information, says it determines whose planes carry out raids according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions used.

More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests.

Tuesday's gathering in Brussels has been billed as a follow-up to a donors' conference last year in London, which raised about US$11 billion (€10 billion) for humanitarian aid programmes in the devastated country.

- AFP/rw/ec

The visible trend is wars will get more and more ugly and cruel and no body will give a shit about Geneva Convention any longer.

"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights..Britain-based monitoring group was unable to confirm the nature of the substance"

You do realise that this "group" is actually one single person with so-called "connections" reporting from the comfort of the UK?

"The organisation is run by Rami Abdulrahman (sometimes referred to as Rami Abdul Rahman), from his home in Coventry. He is a Syrian Sunni Muslim who owns a clothes shop. Born Osama Suleiman, he adopted a pseudonym during his years of activism in Syria, and has used it publicly ever since. After being imprisoned three times in Syria, Abdulrahman fled to the United Kingdom fearing a fourth jail term and has not returned."

The two-bedroom Coventry home of Syrian immigrant Rami Abdel Rahman has been the organization’s base and the source of information for major mainstream media on anything Syria-related from the past four years, including the death toll.

Nobody quite knows who Abdel Rahman has on the ground in Syria, but information just keeps flowing on and on, usually in a dramatic fashion and with little detail.

https://www.rt.com/news/317372-nimrod-kamer-syrian-observatory/

Ang Moh shit in their pants at the use of baby oily gas.

As they tries to steal Putin's cake in Syria, after Putin knocked out ISIS, Putin still avoid to directly hit them, and instead used proxy Assad to gas them. What is the use of UN resolution when Putin & China can VETO the fuck of it?

If the approach is only gas, they should be accurately delivered on US Special Forces & Israelis generating much bigger death toll. Must use those that can not be simply protected by gas masks alone, and they will die unless they wear full NBC suits 24hours.

Putin is facing his own big miscalculation now, that he knocked ISIS out, and Ang Moh moves freely to steal his cake in Syria. Using Assad as proxy is too weak. Gas can not make Assad sufficiently strong. Assad use regular state own forces, with Conventional Military Doctrine. Ang Moh are not afraid of them, only militant beast that will behead them and burn them inside dog cages are sufficiently useful as a war proxy.


http://www.straitstimes.com/world/m...pose-un-resolution-on-deadly-syria-gas-attack


US, France, Britain propose UN resolution on deadly Syria gas attack
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UNITED NATIONS (REUTERS, NYTIMES) - The United States, Britain and France on Tuesday (April 4) proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution to condemn one of the worst chemical bombings in Syria, which diplomats said is likely to be put to a vote on Wednesday.

The draft resolution, seen by Reuters, asks UN chief Antonio Guterres to report monthly on whether the Syrian government is cooperating with an international inquiry into chemical weapons use in Syria.

The suspected deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria turned a northern rebel-held area into a toxic kill zone on Tuesday, inciting international outrage over the ever-increasing government impunity shown in the country's six-year war.

Western leaders including President Donald Trump blamed the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad and called on its patrons, Russia and Iran, to prevent a recurrence of what many described as a war crime.

Dozens of people, including children, died - some writhing, choking, gasping or foaming at the mouth - after breathing in poison that possibly contained a nerve agent or other banned chemicals, according to witnesses, doctors and rescue workers. They said the toxins spread after warplanes dropped bombs in the early morning hours. Some rescue workers grew ill and collapsed from proximity to the dead.

The opposition-run Health Department in Idlib province, where the attack took place, said 69 people had died, providing a list of their names. The dead were still being identified, and some humanitarian groups said as many as 100 had died.

The government of Assad, who renounced chemical weapons nearly five years ago after a large chemical attack that US intelligence agencies concluded was carried out by his forces, denied that his military had been responsible, as he has done every time chemical munitions have been used in Syria.

A statement from the Syrian military accused insurgents of responsibility and said they had accused the army of using toxic weapons "every time they fail to achieve the goals of their sponsors."

But only the Syrian military had the ability and the motive to carry out an aerial attack like the one that struck the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun.

Russia offered another explanation. A spokesman for its Defense Ministry, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Syrian warplanes had struck an insurgent storehouse containing toxins to be used in chemical weapons.

Witnesses to the attack said it began before 7am. Numerous photographs and graphic videos posted online by activists and residents showed children and older adults gasping and struggling to breathe, or lying motionless in the m&d as rescue workers ripped off victims' clothes and hosed them down. The bodies of least 10 children lay lined up on the ground or under a quilt.

STRIKE ON CLINIC

A few hours later, according to several witnesses, another airstrike hit one of the clinics treating victims, who had been sent to smaller hospitals and maternity wards because the area's largest hospital was severely damaged by an airstrike two days earlier.

The scale and brazenness of the assault threatened to further subvert a nominal and often violated cease-fire that had taken hold in parts of the country since Assad's forces retook the northern city of Aleppo in December with Russian help, emboldening the Syrian leader to think he could win the war.

The attack also seemed likely to dampen peace talks that have been overseen by the United Nations in Geneva and by Russia and Turkey in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Incredulous over the chemical assault, humanitarian groups demanded action from the UN Security Council, where partisan divides over who is to blame for the Syrian war have paralyzed its members almost since the conflict began in 2011. The council scheduled a meeting for Wednesday.

For Trump, who has repeatedly blamed what he has called President Barack Obama's failures for the Syria crisis, the chemical weapons assault posed a potential policy dilemma and exposed some blaring contradictions in his own evolving positions on Syria.

The White House called the chemical attack a "reprehensible" act against innocent people "that cannot be ignored by the civilised world".

At the same time, Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, denounced Obama for having failed to make good on his famous "red line" statement in 2012, suggesting he would intervene militarily in Syria if Assad used chemical weapons.

But in August 2013, Trump had exhorted Obama not to intervene after a chemical weapons attack near Damascus that US intelligence attributed to the Syrian military killed more than 1,400 civilians, including hundreds of children, according to US government estimates at the time.

"President Obama, do not attack Syria," Trump said on Twitter. "There is no upside and tremendous downside."

Trump's administration, which would like to shift the focus in Syria entirely to fighting the Islamic State, has in recent days described Assad's hold on his office as a political reality - an assertion that has drawn strong condemnation from influential Republicans who say Assad must leave power.

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who had said that Assad's fate "will be decided by the Syrian people," struck a sharply different tone on Tuesday, urging Assad's allies Russia and Iran "to exercise their influence over the Syrian regime and to guarantee that this sort of horrific attack never happens again." Tillerson added that "Russia and Iran also bear great moral responsibility for these deaths." Russia has insisted that it had no military role in the strike. But a State Department official who briefed reporters in Washington said Russian officials were trying to evade their responsibility because Russia and Iran were guarantors of the Assad government's commitment to adhere to a cease-fire in the peace talks that the Kremlin had helped organize in Astana.

Rescue workers from the White Helmets civil defense organization said that many children were among the dead and wounded. Radi Saad, who writes incident reports for the group, said that volunteers had reached the site not knowing a chemical was present and that five of them had suffered from exposure to the substance.

While chlorine gas attacks have become almost routine in northern Syria, this one was different, medical workers and witnesses said. Chlorine attacks usually kill just a few people, often those trapped in an enclosed space, and the gas dissipates quickly.

This time, people collapsed outdoors, and in much larger numbers. The symptoms were also different: They included the pinpoint pupils of victims that characterize nerve agents and other banned toxins. One doctor posted a video of a patient's eye, showing the pupil reduced to a dot. Several people were sickened simply by coming into contact with the victims.

The opposition minister of health, Mohamad Firas al-Jundi, said in a video that he had been in a field hospital at 7:30am when more than 100 people arrived wounded or sickened. Many others, he said, were scattered to other clinics.

"The patients are in the corridors and on the floors of the operation rooms, the ERs and in the patient rooms," he said. "I saw more than 10 deaths due to this attack." Symptoms, he said, included suffocation; fluid in the lungs, with foam coming from the mouth; unconsciousness; spasms; and paralysis.

"It's a shocking act," he said. "The world knows and is aware of what's happening in Syria, and we are ready to submit evidence to criminal laboratories to prove the use of these gases."

A 14-year-old resident of the attacked town, Mariam Abu Khalil, said she had left home for her examination on the Quran - scheduled for early morning because fewer bombings were expected then - when the attack took place. On the way, she saw an aircraft drop a bomb on a one-story building a few dozen yards away.

In a telephone interview Tuesday night, she described an explosion like a yellow mushroom cloud that stung her eyes. "It was like a winter fog," she said.

Sheltering in her home nearby, she saw several residents arrive by car to help the wounded. "When they got out, they inhaled the gas and died," she said.

DEADLIEST ATTACK SINCE 2013

The attack appeared to be the deadliest chemical attack in Syria since the August 2013 assault. Under threat of US retaliation, Assad agreed to a Russian-American deal to eliminate his country's chemical weapons program, which until that time it had denied having, and to join an international treaty banning chemical weapons.

But the operation took far longer than expected and raised questions about whether all the materials were accounted for. The head of the international monitoring body, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, complained in an internal report about misleading statements from Damascus and expressed concern about possible undeclared chemical weapons.

Since then, the organisation, working with the United Nations, has found that the Syrian government used chlorine gas as a weapon three times in 2014 and 2015, violating the treaty. Rebel fighters, doctors and anti-government activists say there have been numerous other chlorine attacks, including at least two in the past week, in one case killing a doctor as he worked.

The OPCW has also accused the Islamic State of using banned mustard gas in Iraq and Syria. But the area around Khan Sheikhoun is not held by the Islamic State but by other insurgents - Al-Qaeda-linked militants and a variety of other rebel groups.

A chemical weapons attack, if carried out by the government, would be a brazen statement of impunity, coming during a major international meeting in Brussels where officials are debating whether the European Union and other countries will contribute billions of dollars for reconstructing Syria if it is presided over by a government run by Assad.

"Today's chemical attack was a direct insult to the #EU," Fadi Halisso, a Syrian former priest who runs Basmeh and Zeitooneh, a humanitarian organization that aids Syrian and Palestinian refugees, said on Twitter.

"Assad is telling them, 'You will pay, and I will continue killing,'" he added from Brussels. "You can do nothing."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2017-04/05/c_129524868.htm



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　　当地时间2017年4月4日，叙利亚伊德利卜Saraqib，一名儿童遭到疑似毒气袭击后在医院接受治疗。据媒体报道，叙利亚西北部反对派控制的城镇疑似毒气袭击事件，造成至少100人死亡，约400人受伤，死者包括11名儿童。叙利亚人权观察组织相信，此次袭击是叙利亚政府军的战机投掷毒气弹所为。但叙利亚军方消息人士否认曾经使用化武。俄罗斯军方也否认在当地发动空袭。图片来源：东方IC

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