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muriel_volestrangler

(101,157 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 10:55 AM Oct 2018

BBC: How chemical weapons have helped bring Assad close to victory

The BBC has determined there is enough evidence to be confident that at least 106 chemical attacks have taken place in Syria since September 2013, when the president signed the international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and agreed to destroy the country's chemical weapons stockpile.
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The JIM and OPCW have so far not concluded that any opposition armed groups other than IS have carried out a chemical attack. The BBC's investigation also found no credible evidence to suggest otherwise.
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Tobias Schneider of the Global Public Policy Institute has also investigated whether the opposition could have staged any air-launched chemical attacks and concluded that they could not. "The Assad regime is the only actor deploying chemical weapons by air," he said.
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Many of the reported attacks occurred in clusters in and around the same areas and at around the same times. These clusters coincided with government offensives - in Hama and Idlib in 2014, in Idlib in 2015, in Aleppo city at the end of 2016, and in the Eastern Ghouta in early 2018.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45586903
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BBC: How chemical weapons have helped bring Assad close to victory (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2018 OP
I didn't even know this was still in debate Blue_Tires Oct 2018 #1
Far left and right dispute it. muriel_volestrangler Oct 2018 #2
Yeah, good point... Blue_Tires Oct 2018 #3

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
1. I didn't even know this was still in debate
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:26 PM
Oct 2018

I've never seen anybody but Kremlin trolls and other assorted lefty nutbars dispute this for years...

muriel_volestrangler

(101,157 posts)
2. Far left and right dispute it.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:53 PM
Oct 2018

I'm surprised to see you say "Kremlin trolls and other assorted lefty nutbars". Kremlin trolls are typically right wing. It is, after all, a kleptocracy, running the most unequal major country in the world, using nationalism and religion to retain support.

For example, a white nationalist came up in discussion on another forum I post on, and a communist and an alt-right nutter both picked on someone saying "this guy thinks the Syrian chemical attacks were faked" and said "but they were".

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. Yeah, good point...
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 04:46 PM
Oct 2018

There's this odd left-right mix with the Kremlin troll army; it is truly where the "horseshoe" meets...

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