Commanders had been urging Assad for authorization to use chemical weapons for more than four months but hadn't received it, Bild reports based on intercepted radio messages.
Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar Assad, Germany's Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence.
Syrian brigade and division commanders had been asking the Presidential Palace to allow them to use chemical weapons for the last four-and-a-half months, according to radio messages intercepted by German spies, but permission had always been denied, the paper said.
This could mean Assad may not have personally approved the attack close to Damascus on August 21 in which more than 1,400 are estimated to have been killed, intelligence officers suggested.
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This is crap. If this would have happened Assad would have taken some form of open punitive action against his military. The fact that he did nothing confirms his guilt.
ReplyDeleteThis is crap. If it did happen, Assad would have taken open punitive actions along with condemning the actions of his military. The fact that he did nothing confirms his guilt.
ReplyDeletewho cares, we will be in WWIII with iran, china, and russia... Thats what it is about...
ReplyDeleteTrust me after this war they will campaign on peace for the world and then you will have your one world govt you all say won't exist and that they are not after...
Ask yourself this. The target people were private Syrian citizens. Why would Assad attack them instead of the enemy rebels? Wouldn't it make more sense that it was the rebels attacking the private citizens?
ReplyDeleteTHINK, people!