Snipers fire at UN chemical weapons team in Syria

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 08/26/2013 | Ariel Zirulnick

[TexGrill]

United Nations weapons inspectors were forced to turn back from visiting the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria after their vehicles came under fire from snipers on Monday.

The incident is a setback for those hoping the inspectors would provide a more objective determination on whether the Assad regime had in fact gassed its own people. Russia and Iran have been insisting there is not enough proof that the regime was behind the chemical weapons attack last week, and continue to urge restraint in any international response.

But other international players are already saying there is little doubt, laying the groundwork for an intervention in Syria without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, which Russia has thwarted.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said today that Britain and its allies did not need the unanimous approval of council members, insisting that a response would be “based on great humanitarian need and distress” and would not violate international law.

“Is it possible to respond without complete agreement on the Security Council? I would argue yes it is,” Mr. Hague said, according to the BBC. “Other countries including France are very clear that we can’t allow the idea that chemical weapons in the 21st century can can be used with impunity.”

[sockmonkey]

The idea that we are going to back the lovely Rebels who burned almost 70 Christian Churches in two days..IIRC, less than two weeks ago, maddens me..

Let me correct myself, not, WE, as the majority of Americans are against it. The grand agenda surpasses the will of American Citizens.

[DesertRhino]

“As a former psyops specialist, I can tell you those pics of the kids will end up being the undoing of the Assad regime.”

I saw Luke Skywalker blow up the death star too. And Dirty Harry shoot an armed robber with a 44 magnum. Pics mean nothing.

[Trod Upon]

Send in Hillary. She knows how to deal with snipers (snicker).

[SaxxonWoods]

Samantha Powers tweeted about “haunting images of families dead in their beds” (paraphrased) and Kerry is calling the attack a “moral obscenity”.

Bambi is said to be undecided, as always.

It sounds to me like we are being “prepared”.