TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA GIVING TERRORISTS
WMDS, SYRIA CLAIMS
Published time:
October 12, 2014
INTRODUCTION by Hugo Adan, October 13, 2014
The SOLUTION to this
problem is to change the command of the war in Syria and Iraq. This command should
be re-defined by a UN-SC meeting and Russians, Iranians and the Assad-Syrian
army plus the Kurdish, and all those ready to send troops, should be part of
this command. The new command should be in
charge of re-defining strategies and
tactics, and in charge of conducting the war against ISIS. Meanwhile, any illegal bombing of Syria and Iraq should be
stopped and the personnel who commit war and humanitarians crimes should be
indicted and placed in the hand of a special committee of the UN-ICC.
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Syria’s UN envoy has
accused Turkey and Saudi Arabia of giving weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to
terrorist groups fighting in the country. The charge precedes reports Kurdish
fighters battling ISIS militants have been attacked with chemical weapons.
Bashar Jaafari told a
UN committee on Friday that Turkey and Saudi Arabia should examine their own
involvement in the Syrian conflict before leveling “null and baseless
accusations [against] the Syrian government."
In comments delivered
to the UN’s First Committee on Disarmament and International Security at the UN
General Assembly, Jaafari accused Ankara and Riyadh of being “directly
involved in providing these terrorist organizations with chemical weapons,”
RIA-Novosti cites a source as saying.
He further accused
the countries of helping finance groups attempting to overthrow Syrian
President Bashar Assad. He singled out Turkey in particular for allegedly
supporting over 100 militant organizations currently active in Syria.
Rather than lend “a
helping hand” to help Damascus put a halt to the crisis currently engulfing
the country, the Turkish government has become “one of the main support
bases for these terrorist organizations,” the Israeli- daily Haaretz cites
Jaafari as saying.
The report comes
nearly a week after US Vice President Joe Biden was forced to
apologize to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after alleging he had
allowed foreign fighters allied with the so-called Islamic State (IS) to cross
into Syria.
A livid Erdogan said
if Biden in fact had made the comments, the US vice president would be “history
to me.”
During the phone call
with Erdogan, Biden “apologized for any implication that Turkey or other
allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the
growth of ISIL (IS, ISIS) or other violent extremists in Syria," the
White House said.
On October 2, Biden
blamed America’s allies in the region – Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United
Arab Emirates – for allowing the rise of IS, saying they supported extremists
with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria.
Reuters/Hosam Katan
Hallmarks of a WMD attack (See photographs
in the web above)
Meanwhile, photographs
obtained by the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA Journal)
which were published on Sunday appear to support accusations IS militants have
deployed chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters, who have been under siege
in the northeastern Syrian city of Kobani since September 16.
According to the
documentary evidence, which cannot be independently verified, three slain
Kurdish fighters were inflicted with “burns and white spots” while not
bearing any visible wounds or external bleeding.
The reported injuries
could indicate that a chemical agent, potentially mustard gas, was deployed,
MERIA said. The experts said, however, that more evidence would be needed to
conclude the Kurdish fighters had died due to a chemical attack.
Hamish de
Bretton-Gordon, one of the world's leading chemical weapons experts, told RT
that if the MERIA photos are genuine, the injuries depicted would be “consistent
with a blister agent, like Mustard [gas].”
“We know that Islamic State have already used chlorine in Iraq
against the Iraqi army,” he added.
The journal suggests
IS may have obtained the weapons following the seizure of the alleged Muthanna
chemical weapons compound.
The journal cites a 2007
CIA report, which stated Muthanna was used to produce chemical agents, Including
mustard gas.
Reuters/Hosam Katan
The report follows accusations
from Washington last month that the Assad government had broken the chemical
weapons treaty it signed earlier this year by deploying chlorine gas in several
Syrian villages in Hama.
“We believe there is evidence of [President Bashar] Assad’s use of
chlorine, which when you use it – despite it not being on the list – it is
prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Kerry told the US House
of Representatives. “He’s in violation of the convention.”
Kerry added that Washington is studying ways to hold Assad to account.
Responding to the
accusations, Jaafari told the UN Damascus “condemns in the strongest terms
the use of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and considers it
an abhorrent crime and an impermissible, reprehensible and unethical act,”
RIA cites him as saying.
He added that “a small number of governments had used this report to
slander Syria.”
Jaafari further warned against politicizing the OPCW’s September
report, saying that it had not assigned blame for the attacks.
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