Posted on 08/21/2013 10:08:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The men, women and children lying undisturbed in their beds had looked so peaceful they might have been just sleeping, Abu Nidal thought, as he and other rescuers dragged their bodies into the street.
His was one of many accounts of a massive assault on the eastern suburbs of Damascus that activists say killed more than 500 people on Wednesday morning.
"We would go into a house and everything was in its place, every person was in their place. They were lying where they had been. They looked like they were asleep. But they were dead," he told Reuters by Skype from the suburb of Erbin.
Reuters was unable to verify witness accounts. Doctors interviewed in the area describe symptoms they believe point to sarin gas, one of the agents Western powers accuse Damascus of having in an undeclared chemical weapons stockpile.
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Tragic if true, which we can't know. We have no role here, no pro-American side. That said, if we want to contain the use of chem-bio weapons, if we don't know where the stores are, Israel does. Destroy them, or if we're indecisive, ask Israel to. At some point we're going to confront this weaponry. Better now, in Syria, without taking sides.
The Christians have been reluctant to leave because they are one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. I think they speak Aramaic and retain first century Christian culture. We have NO Idea how many Hebrew and Christian people of the middle east/north Africa have been persecuted in the last few years.
I find it odd that the rescuers and corpse retrievers are not worried about the bodies and clothing of the victims being contaminated. In a gas attack training scenario, it’s a major concern that the victims and what they are wearing have nerve gas on them.
Sarin is not a “gas” it’s a heavy liquid that really does not evaporate that quickly.
Something odd here.
Sounds like a plan.
What a conundrum for Obama. If he sends troops, he basically says George Bush was right, undermining the entire meme that going into Iraq for WMD was wrong.
If he doesn’t send troops, it is perceived that Obama supports the murderous regime in Syria and it undermines the Brotherhood which he supports.
Look, a squirrel.....
And if the rebels did it so they could accuse the government? Same difference.
0bama got the puppy to send a message to the Middle East. That’s why he named it Sunni Obama.
The news media just doesn’t want to type it correctly. Sunny, it ain’t.
Exactly. I don’t believe any of them. The first casualty of war is the truth.
The pictures I have seen of “sick” children and “dead” bodies looked fake. Reminds me of the baby milk factory incident.
Zero’s supporters are exactly like the crowd in the outdoor harangue scene in Orwell’s “1984”.
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