Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Pretext for war on Syria has no proof

[ Press TV - http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/28/320872/pretext-for-war-on-syria-has-no-proof/ ]


The heightened rhetoric of war by the United States against Syria over the claim that Damascus has used chemical weapons comes despite the fact that there is no proof for the accusation, Press TV reports.

On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.

A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and the UK, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus categorically has rejected the baseless claim, and announced later that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false-flag operation.
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