PressTV:
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Tuesday statement that international experts as well as Syrian public and religious leaders presented their evidence to the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9.
It also said evidence provided by numerous witnesses confirms that militants fighting against the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of western Ghouta last month.
The participants in the UN Human Rights Council session warned of the consequences of a military strike against Syria, noting that such an attack would constitute a crude violation of international law.
The US administration has been using the footage and the photos in question to lobby for a military strike on Syria.
The recent war rhetoric against Syria first gained momentum on August 21, when the militants operating inside the Middle Eastern country and the country’s foreign-backed opposition claimed that over a thousand people had been killed in a government chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus.
The following is an article stating the same.
http://rt.com/op-edge/mother-chemical-attack-footage-fraud-509/
So now the US looks even more foolish and amateurish for having such poor intel that we believed a false flag jihadi propaganda bit. The stated reason for a US attack against Syria wasn’t true. How much more incomletent can this administration be?
Piccinin,abducted with Quirico in Syria,Assad didn’t use gas
With Stampa reporter he overheard conversations of rebels
09 September, 13:30
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(ANSAmed) – BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 9 – Pierre Piccinin, the Belgian national abducted in Syria last April with Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and released Sunday, said on Monday that the Syrian regime was not behind an alleged chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21. ‘It is a moral duty to say this. The government of Bashar al-Assad did not use Sarin gas or other types of gas in the outskirts of Damascus’, Piccinin told radio RTL-TV, saying he had overheard rebels talk about it together with Quirico, a veteran war correspondent working for Turin-daily La Stampa. (ANSAmed)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2013/09/09/Piccinin-abducted-Quirico-Syria-Assad-didn-use-gas_9269609.html
“During our kidnapping, we were kept completely in the dark about what was going on in Syria, including the gas attacks in Damascus”, Quirico said. “But one day, we heard a Skype conversation in English between three people whose names I do not know. We heard the conversation from the room in which we were being held captive, through a half-closed door. One of them had previously presented himself to us as a general of the Syrian Liberation Army. The other two we had never seen and knew nothing about”.
“During the Skype conversation, they said that the gas attack on the two neighbourhoods in Damascus had been carried out by rebels as a provocation, to push the West towards a military intervention. They also said they believed the death toll had been exaggerated,” Quirico said in his statement.
http://www.lastampa.it/2013/09/09/esteri/quirico-it-is-madness-to-say-i-knew-it-wasnt-assad-who-used-gas-FjJDJ8oeEI19AZbyKIVBHJ/pagina.html
Pete, the answser to that question is truly frightening. Look who Obama surrounds himself with; Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, Cass Sunstein, Eric Holder, Chuck Hagel (a truly dumb man); the list of incompetent radical leftists is lengthy.
If you look at the sources of this story, you find disinformation machines in Iran behind it.
If anyone can find an original United Nations news release, I’d love to see it!
I think this story is fake.
However, there has been NO PROOF that Assad was behind the attack.
@retire05:
And what just stuns me is how arrogantly self-impressed these leftists are over how stupendously smart they believe themselves to be when every single idea they come up with to make things better turns to merde in exactly the manner we supposedly backwards, knuckledragging, drooling cretin conservatives described would happen.
That justifies the Savage catchphrase, paraphrased, “Leftism is a mental disorder”