ALEPPO MASSACRE AIMED AT ERASING EVIDENCE IMPLICATING WEST: ANALYSIS
Syrian medical workers and relatives inspect the bodies of victims of
the July massacre in the town of Khan al-Assal, Aleppo Governorate.
(File photo)
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/01/316700/truth-massacred-in-aleppo-to-spare-west/
Thu Aug 1, 2013 3:12PM GMT
Related Interviews: 'US in no position to dictate Syria fate' 'Kurds
pay price for loyalty to Assad' Related Viewpoints: Western genocide
goes on in Syria A political expert says the recent massacre in the
Syrian town of Khan al-Assal was a Western-backed measure to cover
up the militants' use of chemical weapons there back in March, Press
TV reports.
In an article published on Press TV's website on Thursday, Finian
Cunningham said the evidence on the ground in Khan al-Assal had to be
erased to prevent "grave criminal implications for Western governments
and their covert involvement in Syria's 30-month-old conflict."
Cunningham cited reports revealing that the Western-backed
al-Qaeda-linked militants had been found in possession of the nerve
agent sarin on Turkish soil. He also quoted a June Washington Post
report on a US military program in Jordan aimed at training the
Jordanian military in the handling of chemical weapons.
Cunningham said the reports about the militants' activities in
southern Turkey and Jordan in cooperation with the CIA and British
MI6 indicate that "chemical weapons are part of the arsenal that the
Western governments and their regional allies have been furnishing
their proxy paramilitaries with inside Syria."
He pointed to a Russian investigation that found Western-backed
militants were behind the March chemical attack, which prompted the
UN investigators to meet with Syrian authorities, where they promised
a forthcoming in-depth investigation.
Cunningham explained that such an investigation would have involved
collecting samples and interviewing witnesses in Khan al-Assal about
what happened during the attack on March 19, and would have most likely
agreed with the Russian study, which found anti-Syria militants behind
the mass murder.
This, the expert said, confirms that Western-sponsored terror groups
have been using these weapons with the full or tacit knowledge of
Western governments and their military agencies.
"Given this potentially damning picture that was forming around Khan
al-Assal, it is not implausible that Western-backed death squads
were dispatched on the town last weekend in a desperate attempt
to exterminate any remaining witnesses to the first massacre with
chemical weapons," he proposed.
"For the Western sponsors of genocide in Syria, the stakes could not
have been higher on that particular truth coming out. That is why
the truth had to be massacred," Cunningham concluded.
In late July, armed terrorist groups killed at least 123 people,
mostly civilians but also including military personnel, during an
attack on Khan al-Assal, in Aleppo Governorate. They mutilated the
corpses, throwing them into a crater outside town and incinerated
the bodies of a number of other victims.
Up to 30 people were killed and some 100 others were also seriously
injured on March 19, when the town was hit by a chemical attack that
involved the deadly nerve agent, sarin.
The massacre came as Western powers and their regional allies -
including the Israeli regime, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - continue
to support militant groups, including al-Qaeda-linked terrorists,
in Syria.
The Arab country has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. The
UN says more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions of
others displaced in the violence.
Syrian medical workers and relatives inspect the bodies of victims of
the July massacre in the town of Khan al-Assal, Aleppo Governorate.
(File photo)
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/01/316700/truth-massacred-in-aleppo-to-spare-west/
Thu Aug 1, 2013 3:12PM GMT
Related Interviews: 'US in no position to dictate Syria fate' 'Kurds
pay price for loyalty to Assad' Related Viewpoints: Western genocide
goes on in Syria A political expert says the recent massacre in the
Syrian town of Khan al-Assal was a Western-backed measure to cover
up the militants' use of chemical weapons there back in March, Press
TV reports.
In an article published on Press TV's website on Thursday, Finian
Cunningham said the evidence on the ground in Khan al-Assal had to be
erased to prevent "grave criminal implications for Western governments
and their covert involvement in Syria's 30-month-old conflict."
Cunningham cited reports revealing that the Western-backed
al-Qaeda-linked militants had been found in possession of the nerve
agent sarin on Turkish soil. He also quoted a June Washington Post
report on a US military program in Jordan aimed at training the
Jordanian military in the handling of chemical weapons.
Cunningham said the reports about the militants' activities in
southern Turkey and Jordan in cooperation with the CIA and British
MI6 indicate that "chemical weapons are part of the arsenal that the
Western governments and their regional allies have been furnishing
their proxy paramilitaries with inside Syria."
He pointed to a Russian investigation that found Western-backed
militants were behind the March chemical attack, which prompted the
UN investigators to meet with Syrian authorities, where they promised
a forthcoming in-depth investigation.
Cunningham explained that such an investigation would have involved
collecting samples and interviewing witnesses in Khan al-Assal about
what happened during the attack on March 19, and would have most likely
agreed with the Russian study, which found anti-Syria militants behind
the mass murder.
This, the expert said, confirms that Western-sponsored terror groups
have been using these weapons with the full or tacit knowledge of
Western governments and their military agencies.
"Given this potentially damning picture that was forming around Khan
al-Assal, it is not implausible that Western-backed death squads
were dispatched on the town last weekend in a desperate attempt
to exterminate any remaining witnesses to the first massacre with
chemical weapons," he proposed.
"For the Western sponsors of genocide in Syria, the stakes could not
have been higher on that particular truth coming out. That is why
the truth had to be massacred," Cunningham concluded.
In late July, armed terrorist groups killed at least 123 people,
mostly civilians but also including military personnel, during an
attack on Khan al-Assal, in Aleppo Governorate. They mutilated the
corpses, throwing them into a crater outside town and incinerated
the bodies of a number of other victims.
Up to 30 people were killed and some 100 others were also seriously
injured on March 19, when the town was hit by a chemical attack that
involved the deadly nerve agent, sarin.
The massacre came as Western powers and their regional allies -
including the Israeli regime, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - continue
to support militant groups, including al-Qaeda-linked terrorists,
in Syria.
The Arab country has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. The
UN says more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions of
others displaced in the violence.