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Alleged Syria chemical attack unites nations in condemnation as Trump calls al-Assad an 'animal'

Widespread claims today suggest that an attack on the town of Douma, which killed 70 people, saw the Syrian regime use deadly chlorine gas on the town’s residents.

SYRIA-DAMASCUS-DOUMA-SYRIAN ARMY-STROMING-ISLAM ARMY Smoke rises from the town of Douma yesterday as the Syrian army continued its shelling attack Xinhua News Agency / PA Images Xinhua News Agency / PA Images / PA Images

Updated 7.04 pm

US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has described the deadly attack in the Syrian town of Douma as ‘mindless’ and stated explicitly that it was a chemical attack.

There has been widespread condemnation today of the attack, which left 70 people dead.

Nine countries have demanded an urgent United Nations Security Council meeting tomorrow after the alleged chemical attack.

France initiated the move, and the request was also signed by the United States, Britain, Kuwait, Sweden, Poland, Peru, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast, the sources said.

The meeting is tentatively called for 7pm GMT but needs to be formally confirmed.

Along with Syria’s ally Russia, France, the US and Britain are permanent members of the Security Council, as is China.

The EU said it have evidence suggesting he Syrian regime carried out the chemical attack in Douma and urged Damascus’s allies Russia and Iran to help prevent another attack.

“The evidence points towards yet another chemical attack by the regime,” the European External Action Service said. “We call on the supporters of the regime, Russia and Iran, to use their influence to prevent any further attack.”

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Earlier, the US itself strongly condemned the alleged chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta, saying if proved Russia would bear some responsibility due to its “unwavering support” for the regime.

Douma, the last opposition holdout in Eastern Ghouta, was pounded by renewed airstrikes that killed 70 civilians in around 24 hours – while 11 people also suffered breathing problems.

First responders have accused forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of using poisonous chlorine gas.

Taking to his favourite medium of Twitter this afternoon, Trump placed the blame for the attack firmly on Russia and Iran for their backing of Al-Assad.

“Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and verification. Another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever. SICK!” he tweeted.

He also took the opportunity to lay some blame at the door of his predecessor Barack Obama, stating that if  he had: “crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago!”

Animal Assad would have been history!

Earlier, US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said: “”These reports, if confirmed, are horrifying and demand an immediate response by the international community.”

“The Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable and any further attacks prevented immediately,” she said in a statement.

Russia, with its unwavering support for the regime, ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks.

Nauert repeated the US’s previous assertions that Moscow had “breached its commitments to the United Nations as a framework guarantor” and questioned the Kremlin’s commitment to ending the crisis.

“Russia’s protection of the Assad regime and failure to stop the use of chemical weapons in Syria calls into question its commitment to resolving the overall crisis and to larger non-proliferation priorities,” she said, calling upon Moscow to join international efforts to prevent further attacks.

Iran has labelled allegations of the chemical attack as a “conspiracy” against al-Assad and a pretext for military action.

“Such allegations and accusations by the Americans and certain Western countries signal a new conspiracy against the Syrian government and people, and a pretext for military action,” Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

The Syrian regime has been repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons, with the United Nations among those blaming government forces for a deadly sarin gas attack on the opposition-held village of Khan Sheikhun in April 2017.

Since February 18, the regime’s Ghouta offensive has killed more than 1,600 civilians.

The regime has used a combination of a fierce military onslaught and two negotiated withdrawals to empty out 95 percent of the enclave near Damascus, but rebels are still entrenched in its largest town of Douma.

Additional reporting Cianan Brennan and Rónán Duffy

© – AFP, 2018

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:30 AM

    Why would Assad use chemical weapons with the war almost won?An other false flag maybe.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:38 AM

    @sarah cullen: On March 17th General Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff, said that “we have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria. They are preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions”

    https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/17/war-is-on-the-horizon/

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:48 AM

    @sarah cullen: On March 12th this ‘moderate’ rebel chemical weapon storage facility was discovered in Eastern Ghouta

    http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/03/13/555358/Syria-Eastern-Ghouta-chemical-weapons-workshop-Shefounieh-Jaish-alIslam

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:48 AM

    @Harry Whitehead: Why would Assad use chemical weapons after Trump announced his intention to withdraw troops from Syria, when it makes no military or political sense to do so?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:51 AM

    @JimmyMc: PressTV?

    Do you know what you’re linking to, Jimmy?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:55 AM

    @ihcalaM: Attack the source by all means but why not address the content for a change? Did the Russians pre- warn us of a false flag attck, or did they not?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:57 AM

    @JimmyMc: You conveniently neglected to mention that it was 1) Assad’s troops who ‘discovered’ it and 2) the official Syrian news channel that reported it. No conflict of interest there then!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:03 AM

    @Sheldon: Did you see what Assad Sr. did to the city of Hama when the Muslim Brothehood attempted an uprising there in the 1980s?The Assad dynasty has never been one to shy away from OTT displays of force.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:04 AM

    @JimmyMc: I can attack the source and the content, they’re both garbage.

    As Harry correctly points out, not only is that article from Press TV (mouthpiece for the Iranian regime) quoting Syrian state media (notoriously reliable, of course) but the SAA are the ones claiming to have made this discovery.

    Seeing as this is the same Syrian state media/army that are desperately trying to justify their wholesale massacre of civilians by claiming they are just fighting the big bad terrorists, and have been caught by the OPCW-UN using chemical weapons, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to take their word at face value here.

    In fact, any rational person would be instantly sceptical.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:04 AM

    @Harry Whitehead: so who else would report it? The islamists? The Islamist backers? The UN who are not there?

    Talk about complete denial by those brain washed by Western propaganda. It’s hard for the eco to admit that everything you believed in was wrong.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:12 AM

    @ihcalaM: No sources can be relied on in the information war-None- Not the US, Syrian, Russian, British, UN. None of them. I would have though a lad of your intelligence would have got that by now

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:13 AM

    @Ranty McCrank: are you high? Your rationale that no one else could have ‘reported the find’ in no way undermines the argument that it’s an Assad pantomime. And ‘the Russians warned us we’d find this’ , I’m crying here that doesn’t seem a bit convenient?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:20 AM

    @David Edwards: how is making a very obvious observation and comment consistent with being high? Not sharing your opinion equates to being taking drugs?

    I will tell you what does equate to being high is believing from the media and governments that brought you the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, the Libyan regime change and now the Syrian gas pipeline regime change war crimes.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:29 AM

    @JimmyMc: The OPCW can be believed.

    Yes – that’s the same OPCW every Assad supporter was praising after they confirmed the destruction of the regime’s declared chemical weapons.

    The same OPCW that even Russia seem to view as an independent, beneficial organisation.

    And yet… their reports on recent chemical attacks are nightmare-inducing for defenders of the Russia-Syria blood pact.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:36 AM

    @Sheldon: Russian troll. Just look at his Twitter account name. It has 8 digits at the end. Get a proper job you fool.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:43 AM

    @sarah cullen: oh f off

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:49 AM

    @JimmyMc: yet you quote one. More fool you!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:31 AM

    @Justin McNulty: I quoted one to show there are two sides to every story, but a real fool wouldn’t realise that

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:36 AM

    @ihcalaM: The OPCW can only assess the evidence they are presented with. If you read their reports you will read a lot of “The evidence suggests…” Besides, It’s not like anyone would ever manufacture evidence to suit their own needs. Certainly not the US anyway.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:45 AM

    @sarah cullen: there is evidence of chemical weapon s being used ..propaganda I would imagine but notice how the article turns to blame russia ..

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:47 AM

    @Harry Whitehead: open your mind and dont be so naive.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:49 AM

    @Sheldon: OMG are you actully serious what has trump pulling out troops got to do with the civil war in syria ..

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:56 AM

    @Harry Whitehead: but the good old USA or their british lackys have never shown OTT shows of force …ask the people of iraq or lybia .and only for the fact russia has the syrian regime s back the dynamic duo would of roll in and taken Syria too

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:58 AM

    @sarah cullen: I couldn’t agree more with you Sarah, it makes no sense at all that he would do that when he has the rebels on the back foot. It makes more sense that the rebels are being backed into a corner and have perpetrated this, with the help of their American and Israeli friends, the ones with the history of manipulation and deceit.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:00 PM

    @JimmyMc: well said some very stupid people say how can we believe this its from the syrian news channel lol but they then turn on sky news or fox and believe everthing they are told ..
    Sad pathetic. state of affairs

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:03 PM

    @ihcalaM: the same OPCW that gave evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq ..yeah good point

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:05 PM

    @Paul Nolan: get a propper job you fool ..wise up fella you are nasty little man

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:13 PM

    @sarah cullen: How come civilians get hurt when they oppose the Assad regime with guns but terrorist clash with the Zionist regime using slingshots and stones.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:19 PM

    @Paul Nolan: I am finding it increasingly hilarious, that yourself, harry whitehead and malachi continuously screaming about Russian bots and Russian apologists are doing the EXACT same thing about the Americans and the west.
    “look at his twitter name” – “MUST be a Russian troll”, …. this coming from a bloke with nothing but cartoons all over his profile he is typing from. LMFAO!!
    Methinks you need to update your Irony software to 2.0 and then reboot yourselves.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:27 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: well said lmfho he is the real fool

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:29 PM

    @Paul Nolan: @Sheldon: Russian troll. Just look at his Twitter account name. It has 8 digits at the end. Get a proper job you fool.

    Err, why don`t you have a pop at the ihcalaM account, which was set up in the same month as sheldons, and has a sum total of 2 tweets to it`s name,
    you sir, are either incredibly naive or incredibly selective in who you attack, based on if they agree with you or not.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:14 PM

    @sarah cullen: Good question but it could be that Assad was trying to hurry to finish the war knowing gas chemical is faster than bomb, missile and bullet….just saying.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:26 PM

    @Eoghan S Quinn: I’m naïve for questioning a pro-Assad source quoted on an antisemitic propaganda channel? Get a life.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:43 PM

    @sarah cullen: The rebel pocket that was attacked just announced its full surrender this morning. The rebels agreed evacuation and release of all prisoners. The gas attack worked…

    https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/982961282566336512

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:30 PM

    @Eoghan S Quinn: The head of the OPCW in 2002 actually stood in the way of the invasion of Iraq and had to be (illegally) ousted by the US in order for them to go ahead with their plan.

    The OPCW also stood in the way of unilateral US military action in Syria and instead began supervising the destruction of chemical weapons in the country.

    But facts like that don’t matter, I suppose. You’ll just blindly spoof about the Iraq war anyway.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:32 PM

    @David Jordan: Add this to your narrative…..
    However, US officials admitted that they were unable to independently verify any information about the alleged incident and had to rely solely on “reports” made by rebel-linked sources.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:36 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: When did I accuse anyone of being a bot/troll? Don’t put words in my mouth, thanks.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:43 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: Russian vetoed the continuation of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism into chemical weapon use in Syria late last year. As a result, the OPCW cannot investigate Chemical weapons use in Syria anymore.

    Also, it appears from footage I’ve seen that this was a chlorine attack. The US has said well Mattis said, that Sarin not chlorine is the red line.

    Chlorine is not banned, its a dual use chemical, important in water treatment. If the US retaliates over this, it would be the first time they retaliated over chlorine.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:17 PM

    @David Jordan: Russia is trying to organize a visit by experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to Syria, where they can examine chemical agents seized from militants, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya told reporters on Tuesday.
    (24/01/2018)
    https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-prepares-visit-syria-opcw-experts-envoy/

    Russia calls for OPCW investigation into chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun
    Published April 15th, 2017
    https://www.albawaba.com/news/russia-calls-opcw-investigation-chemical-attack-khan-sheikhoun-963020

    That sort of blows a hole in another theory of yours mate

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:01 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: And what has happened to it?
    Has it been vetoed by anyone?
    Is it currently investigating?

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:08 AM

    @Harry Whitehead:OTT displays of force? Oh you mean like British and American troops in Iraq? Those wonderful 18 British soldiers who fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland and still haven’t been brought to justice, or the more recent exemplary demonstration of Israeli troop’s terrorising Palestinians on the Gaza border?

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:34 AM

    @sarah cullen:
    He wouldn’t Sarah!

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:35 AM

    @JimmyMc:
    Ill bet America and Ishrarl are behind these Lies!

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:36 AM

    @JimmyMc:
    Yeah, most likely put there by the Yanks!

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:51 AM

    @Harry Whitehead: get a life what are you 12 open your eyes

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:38 AM

    Assad who is just about the clear Damascus of Jahadi rebels….Their last enclave about to fall…Trump orders US forces to leave Syria….At that moment Assad desides to use chemical weapons….The enclave bring attached can tweet perfect pictures of it happening within minutes….Come on mainstream media even the BBC must be concerned this is a proooganda story….The moderate rebels left in east Ghouta are mainly Al Nusra or Al Queada in Syria people behind 911…..The several hundred thousand civilians who were under rebel control in Esat Ghouta …Why does not BBC or even RTE ask them are thry happy the rebels have gone and they are now under Syrian government control….This is attempt to get US to keep the Syrian civil war going the way Obama administration did….

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:57 AM

    @pc_comments: What…a…load…of…rubbish…

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:28 AM

    @pc_comments: you have to understand that all western msm with any credability is totally controlled by the same warmongers in the US / UK, journalists are on the CIA payroll to push the decided on narrative and to stick to it.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 2:38 PM

    @pc_comments: not to mention that the majority of “rebels” and “opposition” who ve been killed so far in the “civil war” are not even from Syria.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:29 PM

    @noBankAccBertie: “all western media with any credability is totally controlled by…” LOL that doesn’t even make sense.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:52 PM

    @pc_comments: The rebels are Jaish al Islam, there’s no al Nusra or all Qaeda linked militants there. That said, they’re no better.

    Jaish al Islam paraded prisoners in cages through streets of Douma and put them on roofs of buildings a few years ago. Ironically, Jaish al Islam was set up by Saudi Arabia in 2013 to counter the growing influence of Jabhat al-Nusra.

    The area of Douma, Jobar and Harastra are populated by many thousand of people who came from the countryside in the last 20 years, they are ex-farming people who lost their land to a 15 year drought exacerbated by water mismanagement. They lived in poverty, had high unemployment, and followed a conservative Islam.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:09 PM

    @pc_comments: Well put, the scenario of Assad wanting to do this is so ridiculous you would think you wouldn’t have to spell it out to any sentient human being. Such is the hypnotic effects of brainwashing though your efforts will be lost on the deluded.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:37 AM

    @pc_comments:
    Yes, does that make sense?? NO

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:43 AM

    By any chance are the first responders who are making these allegations the US/UK funded White Helmets?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:45 AM

    @Sheldon:The,” Let’s blame Israel,” lefties will be out soon

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:56 AM

    @Robert Harris: Russia is probably the most Right wing country in the world but the Stalinist Utopia odor is still smelt by the left here. Old habits die hard!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:48 PM

    @Sheldon: Yes the very same ones – who coincidently have miraculously being present at every single chemical attack – such remarkable foresight, such remarkable forward planning you would be forgiven for assuming they have incredible intel. This “fairy tale” is up there with the “bombing” of the USS Maine

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:39 AM

    @Sheldon:
    Quite Possibly Sheldon!

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    Apr 9th 2018, 1:42 AM

    @Robert Harris: Whether or not this anything to do with Israel or not doesn’t change the cold hard fact that Israel is an apartheid, racist, nightmare of a state, hell bent on expanding its illegal territories whilst ramping up its US backed campaign of terror and devastation upon the Palestinian people. But keep pimping out genuine Jewish victims of bigotry as justification, call everyone opposed to the regime anti semites or ‘loony lefties’. Last but not least don’t forget those ‘self hating jews’, those of the semitic race who recognise bigotry and injustice when they see it.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 2:25 AM

    @Robert Harris: Sounds reasonable since all conflicts in the region occurred since the establishment of the Zionist Sate.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:29 AM

    Yet the us continually stay silent on the slaughter in Palestine and Yemen

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:32 AM

    @Declan Leonard: so that justifies the use of gag by Russia/Syria. It is the US fault.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:34 AM

    @Declan Leonard: Them being criminally silent (or complicit) with regards to other conflicts doesn’t mean they’re wrong about this one.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:46 PM

    @ihcalaM: Even if there not wrong about this, it makes them at best cynical, hypocrites and at worst war mongering opportunists! True to form.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:47 PM

    @Alec Berger: * they’re not wrong

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:40 AM

    @Declan Leonard:
    Yes, Amazing isn’t it??

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:42 AM

    @ihcalaM:
    Do they have Proof??

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    Apr 9th 2018, 1:40 AM

    @Declan Leonard: USA started all the troubles, back in the 50s with the shah etc.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:08 PM

    Yes…as the man above said wherever the White Helmets go the gas follows.

    The Journal headline posting was is blatant propaganda as far I notice.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:44 PM

    @Dessie Deratta: ah….they fixed it…..kinda!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:26 PM

    @Dessie Deratta: In fairness the Journal pays for these contributions, they certainly don’t try and veryfy what they publish – more rubbish and lies.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:50 AM

    It was the usa Saudi backed terrorists, they have been trying to do it all the time and blame the other side.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:27 PM

    @Jamie Thornton: It’s an awfully confusing time for the Trumpanzees, they love him, and Assad, and Putin. Poor petals heads are going to explode!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:42 PM

    @Jamie Thornton: Yemen?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:36 AM

    The war is won it is over wherever the white helmets go the gas follows. The West and its despicable media who no longer is in the business of asking the most basic answers of its leaders on the international are quick. Maybe its the novichok nerve agent!!! What a joke of an accusation.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:30 PM

    @Austin Rock: absolutely not, what is so hard to understand that the Assad regime is using these chemical attacks as retribution on communities that opposed him?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:27 PM

    @Diaspora’d: Zzzzzzzzzzzz yeah right on

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:30 PM

    @Austin Rock: Maybe it was another ‘suicide attempt gone wrong’, eh comrade? What a joke of a person you are.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:23 PM

    @Harry Whitehead: yawn

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:35 PM

    @Austin Rock: Quite naive aren’t you to just dismiss even the possibility? Assad is a thug, a dynastic dictator, his father bombed and gassed thousands of civilians in retribution for an uprising in Hama in 1982.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:45 AM

    @Diaspora’d:
    Where did you get this Bull from??

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:14 PM

    The USA war machine wants war with Russia, Putin stopped Syria from ending up like Iraq and Libya. These flocking yanks are the one’s keeping perpetual war going, pretending to be peace keepers , if there is war with Russia it will be the last war fought by mankind.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:57 PM

    @Joe Ryan:well said joe

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:56 PM

    So obviously false flag, so we’ll predicted, there was genuine hope they wouldn’t try it. The English fiasco must have left the warmongers in such need of diversion they just to go ahead with it.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 2:26 PM

    Not buying this rubbish about Assad using chemical weapons. Why would he do it now?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:42 PM

    @Slim Jim: The rebel pocket that was attacked just announced its full surrender this morning. The rebels agreed evacuation and release of all prisoners…

    https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/982961282566336512

    The gas attack worked.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:37 PM

    @David Jordan: US officials admitted that they were unable to independently verify any information about the alleged incident and had to rely solely on “reports” made by rebel-linked sources.
    That sort of blows a gaping hole in your Theory

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:36 PM

    @David Jordan: Yup. They had to get rid of the stock as they knew they cant take it with them. Tragic but actually funny is that those “attacks” only happens when jihadists are about to surrender and victims are kids and women. Never jihadists.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:48 AM

    @Slim Jim:
    He wouldn’t!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:05 PM

    A widely predicted and quite obvious “false flag” Assad has won, he has nothing to gain from such an action, the jihadist die hards in Dhouma do have something to gain by this, and avoiding civilian deaths have never been top of their priority. Watch the usual neocon hawks try to turn this into an anti-Assad and anti-Russian crusade.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:42 PM

    @SeanGabriel1453: What has he got to lose by doing it?
    He is already a pariah in the International community. If he stepped foot in most countries he would be arrested for Crimes Against Humanity and sent to face trial in the Hague.

    From a purely Military point it makes perfect sense. It would take weeks to dig out the fighters in this area and cost him hundreds of military casualties and military equipment by conventional means. With using Chemical Weapons saves time and casualties on his side.

    And because they had allowed an evacuation of civilians they consider anyone that remained as the enemy.

    And with Russia backing him, he simply doesnt care what the International Community thinks.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:51 AM

    Complete and utter bullsh*t. Why would Assad on the verge of winning the war do this? If you believe this you need your head examined. And as usual, the white helmets are first responders on the scene. This is comical as this stage.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 2:57 PM

    @Ciaran Fairley: The war is far from over for Assad. Large sections of the country are still not under his control. From the Turkish backed fighters in the North West, the Kurds in the North East, and other groups in the South and West. It will go on for a lot more years yet.
    But as for this Battle. Why would he use Chemial Weapons when the Battle is almost won?
    The answer is he doesn’t waste men and equipment. Why get your soldiers killed or maimed when you can use Chemical agents to do the work for you with no casualties on your side.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:29 PM

    @Mick Jordan: They had an AGREEMENT with rebels to evacuate anyway and then puff a cloud of chemicals and without a shred of reason or thought the Ginger Pr1ck in the White house jumps at it. Will be interesting to see the responses.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:38 PM

    @Ciaran Fairley: And as usual, the Putinbots and useful idots carry on with their tired old ‘White Helmet’ smear campaigns. Long-discredited and beyond pathetic. Look over there, it’s George Soros!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:39 PM

    @Austin Rock: The rebel pocket that was allegedly attacked just announced its full surrender this morning. The rebels agreed to evacuate and release of all prisoners…

    https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/982961282566336512

    Seems the gas attack worked.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:23 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Mick the irony here is that the gas only kills women and kids, if Assad wanted to use gas wouldn’t he be better off dropping it on a convoy of ”rebels/terriorists”. These terrorists are mercenaries from all over the world. Not from Syria….. Who pays their wages… Saudis, Quataris and the Yanks… All the pictures we see are of kids. Most of whom were seemingly kidnapped last week. The guys telling us this parade women in cages and hack off the heads of Christians.

    Seem this oil pipeline is worth the plundering of Syria.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:32 PM

    @great gael of Eire: Simply because they were dug in. And to get them out by conventional means would mean having to use infantry. And that always leads to casualties on the attackers side. One sniper can hold up a company of 100 + for hours. A 100 snipers can tie up a Division. Chemical Weapons are brutal but very effective in doing what they are designed to do.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:33 PM

    @David Jordan: Add this to your narrative pal .
    However, US officials admitted that they were unable to independently verify any information about the alleged incident and had to rely solely on “reports” made by rebel-linked sources.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:42 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: Russia has previously vetoed every independent UN investigation so and Russia are currently denying any Chemical Weapons were used in this case. So do you think going by their previous vetos they will permit a new Independent Investigation?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:59 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Kurds in the North East? When did Assad ever control them?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:00 PM

    @Mick Jordan: @Mick Jordan: Russia is trying to organize a visit by experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to Syria, where they can examine chemical agents seized from militants, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya told reporters on Tuesday.
    (24/01/2018)
    https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-prepares-visit-syria-opcw-experts-envoy/

    Russia calls for OPCW investigation into chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun
    Published April 15th, 2017
    https://www.albawaba.com/news/russia-calls-opcw-investigation-chemical-attack-khan-sheikhoun-963020

    Hows those apples for you Mick, want me to go find some more for you????

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:14 PM

    @Cormac Ó Braonáin: Before the Civil War began.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:20 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: The Lat attempt by the UN.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/divided-syrian-chemical-weapons-probe-171116165101126.html

     https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/russia-un-veto-security-council-syria-a8062431.html

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:21 PM
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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:38 PM

    @Harry Whitehead: Keep drinking the Kool-Aid Harry lol.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:32 PM

    @Ciaran Fairley: Harry and Mick are Journal’s resident chemical weapons and nerve gas experts. They are of the firm belief that nerve gas was used on a doorknob in Salisbury and that it took 5-6 hours for it to seep through the skin to poison Skripal and his daughter. When you see that kind of expertise provided by them you cant expect anything better in Syria case. They cant miss a chance to have a go at Russia, their irrational hate prevent them from logical thinking. The only other one missing is Walt to make the band complete.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:15 PM

    @Pat Patovic: When the OPCW report is published about Salisbury will you call it lies and a conspiracy?
    And why have Russia refused to allow a UN investigation into the use of Chemical Weapons in Syria mulitple times?
    Surely if Assad is innocent he and the Russians would welcome an Independent OPCW investigation that would clear them wouldn’t you think?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:46 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Give it a break. The amount of nonsense you spammed on salisbury poisoning articles is astounding and you have been proved wrong time and again. Study more about nerve gas poisoning before you offer your “expert” view. That does not differ from the situation in Syria. Your generalization and whataboutery are already legendary here.
    Every single alleged chemical attacks in Syria does have 4 things in common.
    1. jihadists are losing and about to surrender
    2. victims are solely civilians
    3. white helmets readily present there without even basic PP
    4. Assad & Russia blamed
    If Assad & Russia were responsible would you not agree that they should be by the law of probability lucky enough at least one time and hit a pocket of armed jihadists instead of children every time?
    Do yourself and us some favor and project your hate to something more constructive like chopping of wood for winter or so.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 5:50 AM

    @Pat Patovic: Again you refuse to answer a few simple questions.

    (1)Do you think the OPCW are independent?

    (2)Will you accept their findings?

    (3) Why has Russia constantly blocked an OPCW investigation in Syria?

    Three simple questions for you. Try answering them instead of going off on a tangent rant.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:21 AM

    dont worry the U.N will sort it out. NOT !

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:48 AM

    @Tom Mc Cormack:

    HaHa! Yeah Right!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:57 PM

    Chemical attack on a region that’s only days away from surrendering!? Yanks have to be the dumbest people on the planet for expecting the world to believe that. Who were the First Responders? The White Helmets!? Did they give the lad in Coventry a buzz under the protection of the American – backed mercenary terrorists against the Syrian government forces, oops, I meant the Syrian ‘regime’?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:17 PM

    @Cormac Ó Braonáin: 9 members of the UN security council have called an emergency meeting for tomorrow to discuss this attack. So there are countries that believe the Assad regime is very capable of carrying out this attack. And the US would have up to date satellite imagery of this area if not even real time satellite video of the attack itself.

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    Apr 10th 2018, 12:51 AM

    @Mick Jordan: is that all? The Yanks could find only 9 of them?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:04 AM

    Must be the Russians so.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:07 PM
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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:29 PM

    I have read many the same question many times on here. “Why would Assad use Chemical Weapons?”
    And the answer is a very simple one. “They Work”.
    As we have seen throughout history, Urban Warfare is the most difficult and costly in men and equipment for an attacker of all the types of warfare. A defender can dig and use the buildings an rubble to shelter, hide and fight from.
    Using a weapon such as Chemical is cheap, effective, fast and causes the attacker no casulties. What would take an attacker weeks of Conventional Warfare to achieve with a lot of casualties, they can achieve similar results in hours with Chemical Warfare with zero casualties.
    And that is why Assad is using Chemical Weapons.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:36 PM

    @Mick Jordan: The US is not willing to get involved in Syria, so why wouldn’t Assad take the opportunity to ‘punish’ the towns and villages that seemingly opposed him? Assad is nothing but a dictator and a thug.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:50 PM

    @Diaspora’d: He is. They are methodically attacking those areas that oppose him. Air Strikes, Artillery and Tanks will take out a villages and smaller towns quickly and without much fighting. But larger towns and cities with far more buildings, narrow streets and a larger population many of who many would be fighters that’s were it gets drawn out. Heavier casualties, more equipment destroyed or damaged and takes far longer.
    Using Chemical Warfare does the job in a fraction of the time. Many of your enemies are dead or dying, those that survive are demoralised and terrified thus more likely to surrender.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:10 PM

    @Mick Jordan: wrong, Mick. Chlorine gas is much heavier than air. It sinks rapidly which is why it was good fit use in the trenches of WW1. In an open air environment, it would be pretty useless

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:29 PM

    @Diaspora’d: and the rebels are paragons of white virtue!!!!

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:15 PM

    @Paul Devlin: If you are in a bunker or in a tunnel as many of these people would have been you are relatively safe from Air or artillery strikes. If you can breath air then Gas can get into the same areas. And as you yourself have stated Chlorine is heavier and as such would sink into Basements, Bunkers And Tunnels, the very places most people would be taking shelter. So you get my point.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:37 PM

    @Mick Jordan: If Assad is so bad, and the “rebels” are so good……….Riddle me this ….

    In February 2018, Syrian troops began the operation to retake the area that has been under militant control since 2012, and Russia brokered the creation of humanitarian corridors to allow locals to escape the siege. A total of 153,240 people have left the area through humanitarian corridors since the start of the operation

    amazing how the Syrian people are fleeing to Government controlled areas and away from your “Rebels” isn`t it??
    Take your time in getting baack to me, i know it is hard for you to comprehend the truth of the situation.
    PLUS according to the US today,
    US officials admitted that they were unable to independently verify any information about the alleged incident and had to rely solely on “reports” made by rebel-linked sources.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:48 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: What has any of your statement have to with the use of Chemical Weapons?
    As for Independent verification, do you think Russia will veto any UN investigation as they have done with every previous call for one?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:59 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Russia is trying to organize a visit by experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to Syria, where they can examine chemical agents seized from militants, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya told reporters on Tuesday.
    (24/01/2018)
    https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-prepares-visit-syria-opcw-experts-envoy/

    Russia calls for OPCW investigation into chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun
    Published April 15th, 2017
    https://www.albawaba.com/news/russia-calls-opcw-investigation-chemical-attack-khan-sheikhoun-963020

    Hows those apples for you Mick, want me to go find some more for you????

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:19 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: The last time the UN trade to launch an investigation into the use of Chemical Weapons in Syria.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/divided-syrian-chemical-weapons-probe-171116165101126.html

     https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/russia-un-veto-security-council-syria-a8062431.html

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:25 PM
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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:04 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Have a read of the article i posted which was published on 24 of Jan THIS YEAR , not one from novembe last year, which you put up a link to,
    And lol, you quote the Independent UK??

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:11 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: My point was if you read it was Russia has “Previously” vetoed independent investigations into Chemical attacks in Syria. And what became of the Russian effort? Did it happen?
    Why do you think Russia blocked previous OPCW investigations?
    Do think the OPCW is not Independent?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:20 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: what a ridiculous comment, There are about 5 million refugees outside Syria, refugees that didn’t seek refuge under Assad’s control.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:36 PM

    @Diaspora’d: US are already involved. The usual ‘Specialists’ and ‘Security Consultants’ on the ground with airborne strikes against legitimate (UN Recognized) government forces. Where have you been?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:41 PM

    @Denis McClean: The attacks you referring to was where SAA Forces were warned off multiple times but refused to heed those warnings and continued to advance on the US Forces thus becoming an unacceptable threat.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:40 PM

    @Paul Devlin: Only a while ago few comments up was chemical warfare exert Mick stating that victims were kids and women because rebels were “dug in” therefore shielded from chemical attack. That chap really has no idea what he is talking about.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:48 PM

    @Pat Patovic: And where do you think the Women and Children were if not in under ground shelters, basements and tunnels?
    Where would you be if your were under Air and Artillery bombardment?
    Standing on what roofs remained?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:27 AM

    Horror

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:25 PM

    Not long now until the World Cup gets cancelled.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:46 AM

    Some experts leaving comments here or should I say w*nkers

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:57 AM

    @Anthony Power: Bloody winkers.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:44 PM

    More propaganda from the western warmongers.
    Why would Assad do this when he is winning the war

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    Apr 8th 2018, 8:56 PM

    @Michael Maher: retribution and punishment..

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:21 PM

    @Diaspora’d: For who & for what

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:29 PM

    @Michael Maher: for civilians living in areas not loyal to his regime. His father also used the same tactic

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:05 PM

    More lies.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:35 PM

    False Flag.

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    Apr 10th 2018, 12:15 AM

    @Stipe Miocic: Such a fake video, if it was Sarin then everyone would be infected and no way was it Sarin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin If it was it was chlorine gas then all their eyes would be red and not the healthy white that they are as anyone who peel onions would know… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_gas_poisoning “There will generally be sneezing, nose irritation, and throat irritation. There may also be skin irritation or chemical burns and eye irritation or conjunctivitis. A person with chlorine gas poisoning may also have nausea, vomiting, or a headache”… A week or so after the US say they are leaving Syria this happens and again who are the stars of this film but children, terrorists playing westerners heart strings before they start attacking children in the West if they get what they want. Assad is evil but these rebels as in White Helmets, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and Isis are a global threat, remember 911. How can world governments support these terrorists…

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    Apr 8th 2018, 2:35 PM

    Yet we allow chlorine in swimming pools here.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:56 PM

    The US and UK lied about Iraq. They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Libya. Yet people here are going to believe them based on nothing more than their word and everyone who demands something a little more concrete than a few grainy videos from, and the word of a US backed source is a Russian conspiracy theorist ?

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    Apr 9th 2018, 12:20 AM

    @Vigo the Carpathian: ..on the other hand are we supposed to just take kremlin backed RT as gospel and believe all these videos are just fake news?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 9:31 AM

    Shocking

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:12 PM

    The US used nuclear bombs to Hagen the end of a war already one with Japan.

    Military theorists and strategists advise on making total war towards the end stages on a demoralised enemy. The end phases of military conflicts are always the most vicious. Civilians pay the heaviest price.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 1:56 PM

    I was horrified by this at first but then I realised it wasn’t Israel.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:28 AM

    Is it me or do all the Russian supporters on this comment thread have no pics on their accounts. Seems very strange to me tbh. Me thinking a few might be just trolling for a living. What a sad pathetic life they must live.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:33 AM

    @Paul Nolan: plus all their Twitter accounts are either locked or their only posts are about commenting the journal. Don’t engage the Russian trolls.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:42 AM

    @Paul Nolan: didn’t you think about because you need a Facebook or a twitter account to comment in the journal, otherwise I would create a journal account or I wouldn’t have any Facebook account at all, not everybody are into Facebook you know??. You don’t have pictures about you anyways, your account is fake too! Or are you the black cat on the picture?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:48 AM

    @Paul Nolan: I wouldn’t call myself a Russian supporter & I don’t think I’m a troll but this story stinks. Why would the Syrian government use chemical weapons on a group that is, according to reports yesterday, in the process of evacuating to Idlib, thanks to an agreement with the government & overseen by the Russians? The government is providing the buses, food, water & medical care for them to leave. It’s just nonsensical

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:49 AM

    @Ramón Nomar: a black cat. Lol but answer this. Why is it that over 90% of Russian supporters on this thread have no pics, only have their comments on Twitter showing with no other posts, or their Twitter accounts are locked down. A wee bit suspicious. Maybe you personally are not but I suspect most are.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:49 AM

    @Paul Nolan: Paul, I strongly disagree with anybody defending the regime here, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to suggest that they’re all bots.

    Most people genuinely believe what they’re saying about Russia/Assad. I’ve spoken to people with the exact same opinions, repeating the exact same talking points in real life. I’d love to believe this was all fabricated, but the problem is most of it is for real.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:51 AM

    @Paul Nolan: is it me or do all the usa supporters on thread think fox news is gospel?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:51 AM

    @ihcalaM: that’s why I said trolls. Their job is to sow dissent.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:02 AM

    @Paul Nolan: It’s not their job, either.

    As I said, I’ve met plenty of people in real life who say the exact same things.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:14 AM

    @Paul Devlin: well the russians are really renouned humanitarians (ask the Chechens) and Assad has conducted most of his slaughter in a fair and honest manner for the last 6 years so yeah Paul why?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:23 PM

    @Paul Nolan: plus all their Twitter accounts are either locked or their only posts are about commenting the journal. Don’t engage the Russian trolls.

    ……Says the bloke with nothing but cartoons all over their account they are posting from…….You sad, Sad, Western troll who doesn`t understand the word irony….

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    Apr 8th 2018, 12:32 PM

    @Paul Nolan: what a complete waste of space .look at your fb account did you set it up yesterday bart

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    Apr 8th 2018, 2:00 PM

    @Ramón Nomar: very true !!!
    Its baffling how some people with extremely narrow minds believe what they hear in the british media .even after all the lies the british and western media have been caught out on.
    Do people forget Iraq a complete lie were was WMD in Iraq an absolute outrage the country is still ravaged by war 17 years later .disgrace !
    Also I think people simply are pointing out that they dont trust either side .But unfortunately some very stupid people like to draw a line in the sand put the blinders on and go to war .
    Meat heads war is terrible on all sides this stupidly of justifying one side or another belongs in the last century..PEACE

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    Apr 8th 2018, 2:35 PM

    @Eoghan S Quinn: my comment was deleted thought. To much true in it?

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:31 PM

    @Paul Nolan: No I am a real person believe it or not, a free thinking free spirit who knows right from wrong amazing.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:52 PM

    @Paul Nolan: to answer your original question, it’s just you.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:20 PM

    @Paul Nolan: Give it up. Pretty obvious your the one with the fake profile. So repetitive and stupid do you not get bored saying the same rubbish all day everyday.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:28 PM

    Who had the motivation? Who wants to involve the US in the war with Russia? Here, in Syria there is a fight for influence. This is not the only flash point between Russia and the West. What will this lead to? The Book of Revelation warns: “And another horse, fiery red, came out, and the one who rode it was granted permission to take peace from the earth, so that people would butcher one another, and he was given a huge sword.” (6:4) What does it mean? Jesus gave many important details: “Terrors both and unusual phenomena from sky powerful will be.” (Luke 21:11) Some ancient manuscripts contain the words “and frosts” (we call this today “nuclear winter”), and in Mark 13:8 “and disorders” (in the sense of confusion and chaos). There will be also significant tremors (caused by the use of this weapon), food shortages and epidemics along the length and breadth of the regions. This weapon will also cause climate change, catastrophic drought and global famine. (cf. Revelation 6:5, 6) So here we have a complete picture of the consequences of the global nuclear war. No doubt this detailed and richly illustrated picture corresponds only to this war.

    Many try to adapt this detailed picture to the XIX or almost the entire twentieth century. Jesus announced: “For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am’ ['I am the anointed' (Matthew 24:5)]; and ‘The appointed time has approached’ [The time is at hand, (ASV)].” (Luke 21:8) But all this, however, could not last more than 100 years! Jesus stated: “All these are but the beginning of the birth pains”. (Matthew 24:7, 8)

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    Apr 9th 2018, 3:41 AM

    @Ryszard Ewiak: And we were supposed to believe that the Mayans had us done and dusted by the end of 2012, but here we are as a species 6 years later on, still making a show of ourselves.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:29 PM

    I could well believe that the Assad regime would deploy chemical weapons.

    If It was not the Assad Regime which is responsible, it is difficult to see who else would commit this atricity and warm crime.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 4:38 PM

    @Michael Lang: US officials admitted that they were unable to independently verify any information about the alleged incident and had to rely solely on “reports” made by rebel-linked sources.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:11 PM

    @Pearse Mc Mullen: I’ll go with the most likely and probable cause.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:14 PM

    The final stages of all conflicts are the most vicious when impatience finally to win push the winning side into breaking the laws if war. An example was when the US dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan even though the tide of war was decisively in favour of thecUS and US victory was inevitable.

    Assad knows that final victory in within grasp. Terrorising civilians with chemical warfare will accelerate the end of the uprising.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 6:34 PM

    @Michael Lang: Well according to RTE news Assad used chemical weapons on his people 27 times….and that is proven by international experts…..Come on RTE not even John McCain or Al Nusra claims that

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    Apr 8th 2018, 3:08 PM

    I’ve just come here for the conspiracy theories.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 5:13 PM

    Every day this war goes on the “west”are analyzing the Russian war machine…what better way to suss out a foe,watch him fight a war with someone else,think big picture…

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    Apr 8th 2018, 7:26 PM

    Time for Trump to end the Iran deal and let Israel loose to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 10:18 PM

    @Jimmy Ryan: Yes, a war between Iran and Isreal would be terrific. Can’t see any problems there.

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    Apr 8th 2018, 11:55 PM

    @Kieran Woods: Russia is ally of iran (shia). U.S. / EU is ally of Saudi ( sunni). Time bomb.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 8:22 AM
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    Apr 9th 2018, 7:13 PM

    Syria was fine (ish) before the war. All started in 2011, when the traitors in the army wished to sieze power from Bashar. Then in the chaos of war, the Islamic state formed. I’m not exactly sure what issues the Syrian people have with Bashar, but why did it need to come to war to depose him?
    All I can say is, from outside, the USA are keeping up the war by helping the traitors. Saudi Arabia are helping Islamic state, and Russia are helping the legitimate government. Everyone needs to help Bashar get back a foothold and have monitored democratic elections after.

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    Apr 9th 2018, 10:30 AM

    comments here clearly over run by Russian trolling, RT full of lies, Putin in total control of assad because of the reluctant west
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