NEWS: The Chemical Attack & Massacre of Damascus

[renzo_d10]

May all who died rest in peace. Especially the children.

:pope:

Aug 21, 2013 - At approximately 3:00am this morning in Damascus, a year to the day after Obama’s infamous “red line” speech warning Assad about using chemical weapons, and as a specialized UN inspection team sleep in their hotels in Damascus, ostensibly there to investigate a CW attack 6 months ago, Assad launched his largest, most wide scale and most deadly attack using chemical weapons on the Damascus suburbs of Zamallaka and Ein Turma in the Eastern Ghouta area. The fallout from the attack was also felt in many of the surrounding districts.
Preliminary reports are that close to 600 people have been killed so far with thousands more injured from the effects of the gas which some are claiming, based on the symptoms seen, to be “weaponized cyanide”
In two days, you and the rest of the world will forget about this massacre the same way you forgot about the rest that have happened over the last 2+ years in Syria.
We Syrians however, will never forget. Not the martyrs and not the way the rest of the world sat by and watched this happen to us.
A morbid list of at least 75 videos from today’s attack compiled by *Brown_Moses here
A comprehensive list and description of the attacks by *RSyrianCivilWar here
Some of the dead children from the attack.

More dead children.

And more dead children.

A father holds his dead daughter.

The girl from the photo above and her sister.

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The Revolting Syrian-??? ???? ?? ????, The Chemical Attack & Massacre of Damascus

[Horsepower]

I don't understand why the US, with all their weapons and expertise, doesn't take out Assad yet. WTF are they waiting for?!

[rac98]

This is pure massacre! A crime against humanity to the highest level. May those responsible rot in hell!

[loidch]

if these are true, then brand Assad as a terrorist.....at least there would be a justification of using force against his regime.

[safeorigin]

Before you go supporting those so-called "rebels", know who they are first:

Al Qaeda kills Free Syrian Army commander: FSA spokesman | Reuters

Al-Nusra Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[niky]

Before you go supporting those so-called "rebels", know who they are first:

Al Qaeda kills Free Syrian Army commander: FSA spokesman | Reuters

Al-Nusra Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Indeed, there's news now that some UN observers believe that the gas attack was carried out by "rebel" forces.

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That's why the US and the UN have not taken any measures... yet. It would make them look very foolish to invade a country on false premises.

[falken]

I don't think it was Assad who ordered the use of chemical weapons, he'll gain nothing but worldwide condemnation. And with Al Qaeda backing them, I won't be surprised if the rebels were behind this.

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[safeorigin]

I dunno... double standards maybe?

US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah - Middle East - World - The Independent

Human Rights Watch reveals extent of Israel's phosphorus use in Gaza | World news | theguardian.com

We've moved on from the Iraq war ? but Iraqis don't have that choice | John Pilger | Comment is free | The Guardian

[greenlyt]

US readies possible solo action against Syria | Inquirer News

Despite roadblocks in forming an international coalition, Obama appeared undeterred and advisers said he would be willing to retaliate against Syria on his own.

Even before the vote in London, the U.S. was preparing to act without formal authorization from the United Nations, where Russia has blocked efforts to seek a resolution authorizing the use of force, or from Capitol Hill.

Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and already a supporter of moving against Syria in a limited way, said after the briefing that “strong evidence of the Assad regime’s continued use of chemical warfare” merited a military response.

[Monseratto]

British Parliament rejected going to any US-led war with Syria by 13 votes... The Iraqi so-called WMD factor playing into the equation.

BBC News - David Cameron loses Commons vote on Syria action



"Shock and awe" and US 8 billion taxpayer money down the drain...

[safeorigin]

Months ago:

Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.

Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad's regime: U.N. official - Washington Times

But of course, the US government will ignore them.

[safeorigin]

Latest report: Rebels admit they carried out the attack. Sarin canisters were supplied by Saudi Arabia. Wahhabist movement apparently. Moreover, Saudi prince threatens Putin by sending Chechen terrorists to Sochi winter olympics... Hmmm...

[uls]

Obama kasi nagbitaw ng salita (he said using chemical weapons is crossing the red line)

ayan ipit siya

he has to do something or lose credibility

[testament11]

NATO is out of the equation na, They'll not take part if the strike will push through

NATO will not take part in a Syria strike — alliance head | News | GMA News Online

NATO will not take part in a Syria strike — alliance head
August 31, 2013 12:52am

COPENHAGEN - The suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria demands an international response but NATO will not take part, alliance head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Danish media on Friday.

"I see no NATO role in an international reaction to the (Syrian) regime," Rasmussen told reporters in the Danish town of Vejle, daily Politiken reported.

He said the alleged use of chemical weapons was "a terrifying and horrible act. Chemical attacks are a clear violation of international standards -- a crime that can't be ignored."

"It demands an international response, so it doesn't happen again," Rasmussen said.

The NATO secretary general has in the past insisted on the need for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.

UN inspectors have visited the scene of the August 21 suspected gas attack near the Syrian capital.

The opposition says more than 1,300 people died when toxic gases were unleashed on Eastern Ghouta and Moadamiyet al-Sham. Doctors Without Borders said 355 people died of "neurotoxic" symptoms in the affected areas.

Rasmussen said he firmly believed the Syrian regime was behind the attack.

"I have no doubt that the regime carried out a chemical attack," he said, adding: "When you look at who has the chemical stocks and the means to use them in an attack, you have to say that it is the regime."

"There's not much to suggest that the opposition would be in a position to carry out such an attack." — Agence France-Presse

[Ry_Tower]

Ang gulo-gulo talaga nila. Lahat kasi tigasin.

[uls]

the US will go alone

in the next few days

a very limited strike

[safeorigin]

VIDEO* SYRIAN REBEL CUTS OUT SOLDIERS HEART AND EATS IT *NSFW**VIDEO* Syrian rebel cuts out soldiers heart and eats it

So the US are going to war for these guys?

Yes. IIRC McCain even visited Syria and posed in a picture together with known terrorists from Al Qaeda. Normally, that would be a treasonous crime but people are brain dead anyway...

[Retz]

The United States faces failure just like in all the previous wars they waged

- Bashar al assad

[Retz]

Deadly Cloud: The Science Behind the Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack



It’s believed that last week the Syrian government murdered hundreds of its own civilians with chemical weapons. We don’t know which weapon they used, but we do know it’s one of a handful of chemicals called nerve agents.

Nerve agents were invented accidentally by a Nazi-era scientist trying to make a more effective pesticide. That’s why these molecules are so similar in their structure to the most common class of insecticides, chemicals called organophosphates because they contain carbon-based (“organic”) groups coupled to a phosphorous atom. And the way a nerve agent kills you is very similar to the way an organophosphate pesticide kills an insect.

It looks like last week’s massacre could lead to war (the White House is talking about a missile strike). With that in mind, here’s a look at the science of what happened.

This post originally appeared on Puff the Mutant Dragon, and has been republished with permission.

How do we know the Syrian govt used nerve agents?

The symptoms are unmistakable. For example, the pupils of victims’ eyes had narrowed to the size of pinpoints. That’s exactly what happened to the German scientist who invented tabun, the first nerve agent. The pinpoint pupils is a hallmark of nerve agent poisoning. There is no other chemical weapon that would cause these kinds of symptoms.

What did they use?

All the nerve agents cause similar symptoms, so there’s no way to know for sure without a sample for testing.

more....
Deadly Cloud: The Science Behind the Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack

[Retz]

Russia sending warships to the Mediterranean: report

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Russia will "over the next few days" be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean as the West prepares for possible strikes against Syria, the Interfax news agency said on Thursday.



"The well-known situation shaping up in the eastern Mediterranean called for certain corrections to the make-up of the naval forces," a source in the Russian General Staff told Interfax.

"A large anti-submarine ship of the Northern Fleet will join them (the existing naval forces) over the next few days.

Source: Russia sending warships to the Mediterranean: report


and Obama is seeking congress approval for an air strike in syria. war is inevitable at this point.