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FNA REPORT CONFIRMED BY PUTIN'S STATEMENT ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FOR SYRIAN REBELS
News number: 9203184696
17:51 | 2013-06-19
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9203184696
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian President Vladimir Putin said chemical
laboratories in Iraq are producing chemical weapons for the terrorists
in Syria, confirming a detailed report by the FNA last month which
said former Ba'ath regime officials are involved in the production
and procurement of such weapons to the Syrian terrorists.
"We know that Opposition Fighters were detained on Turkish territory
with chemical weapons," Mr. Putin told a press conference in Lough
Erne, Northern Ireland after meeting the leaders of the industrialized
nations in a G8 Summit.
"We have information out of Iraq that a laboratory was discovered
there for the production of chemical weapons by the opposition. All
this evidence needs to be studied most seriously," he continued.
Putin questioned the credibility of allegations by the US, UK and
France that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's forces had used chemical
weapons, and attributed equivalent horrors to the forces supported
by the West.
Early last month, informed sources told FNA that the innocent people
killed in the Khan al-Assal area of rural Aleppo in Northwestern Syria
were the victims of the chemical weapons supplied to the terrorists
by a Saddam-era General working under head of the now outlawed Ba'ath
party Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
"The chemical weapons used in the attack on Khan al-Assal area had
been prepared by former Iraqi Military Industries Brigadier General
Adnan al-Dulaimi and supplied to Ba'ath-affiliated terrorists of
the Nusra Front in Aleppo through Turkey's cooperation and via the
Turkish town of Antakya in Hatay Province," an informed source, who
asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life, told FNA on April 6.
The source who has been an aide to Izzat Ibrahim - the most senior
member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle who is still on the run and
heads the outlawed Ba'ath party after the apprehension and execution
of Iraq's former Dictator Saddam Hussein - defected from the group a
few months ago, but holds substantiating documents on Izzat Ibrahim's
plans.
Gen. Adnan al-Dulaimi was a key man in Saddam's chemical weapons
production projects. After the fall of the dictator and when the
Ba'ath party was divided into the two branches of Yunes al-Ahmad
and Izzat Ibrahim, he joined the latter group and was deployed in
Northwestern Iraq, which is a bastion of Ba'ath terrorists, to produce
chemical substances.
"The 80mm mortar shells which landed in Khan al-Assal and killed
dozens of people were armed with the latest product of Dulaimi's hidden
laboratories sent to the Nusra members for testing," the source added.
"Also at his order, several former Iraqi military industries engineers
trained the Syrian terrorists on how to use these chemical weapons,"
the source said, adding that all plans in this connection were prepared
by Adnan al-Dulaimi and staged after the approval of Izzat Ibrahim.
The chemical mortar shells, which the source said were fired at
Khan al-Assal from the Nusra-ruled Kafr Dael in Northwestern Aleppo,
contained a chemical substance very familiar to the Iraqi Ba'ath party
leaders, Sarin nerve gas. Adnan Dulaimi and his Ba'athist colleagues
in Iraq's military industries mass-produced the same lethal gas and
used it in vast areas against the Iranian troops in the 1980-1988
war and eventually killed thousands of people in the Kurdish town of
Halabcheh with the same chemical agent.
UN human rights investigators announced just a few hours ago that
they have testimony indicating Syrian rebels have used Sarin gas.
Interviews with victims and doctors have provided "strong, concrete
suspicions" that rebels used the deadly nerve agent, according to
a lead investigator, who also stressed that there's no evidence yet
that the Syrian military used Sarin.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing
victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report
of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions
but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of Sarin gas, from the
way the victims were treated," member of the UN independent comm.
News number: 9203184696
17:51 | 2013-06-19
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9203184696
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian President Vladimir Putin said chemical
laboratories in Iraq are producing chemical weapons for the terrorists
in Syria, confirming a detailed report by the FNA last month which
said former Ba'ath regime officials are involved in the production
and procurement of such weapons to the Syrian terrorists.
"We know that Opposition Fighters were detained on Turkish territory
with chemical weapons," Mr. Putin told a press conference in Lough
Erne, Northern Ireland after meeting the leaders of the industrialized
nations in a G8 Summit.
"We have information out of Iraq that a laboratory was discovered
there for the production of chemical weapons by the opposition. All
this evidence needs to be studied most seriously," he continued.
Putin questioned the credibility of allegations by the US, UK and
France that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's forces had used chemical
weapons, and attributed equivalent horrors to the forces supported
by the West.
Early last month, informed sources told FNA that the innocent people
killed in the Khan al-Assal area of rural Aleppo in Northwestern Syria
were the victims of the chemical weapons supplied to the terrorists
by a Saddam-era General working under head of the now outlawed Ba'ath
party Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
"The chemical weapons used in the attack on Khan al-Assal area had
been prepared by former Iraqi Military Industries Brigadier General
Adnan al-Dulaimi and supplied to Ba'ath-affiliated terrorists of
the Nusra Front in Aleppo through Turkey's cooperation and via the
Turkish town of Antakya in Hatay Province," an informed source, who
asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life, told FNA on April 6.
The source who has been an aide to Izzat Ibrahim - the most senior
member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle who is still on the run and
heads the outlawed Ba'ath party after the apprehension and execution
of Iraq's former Dictator Saddam Hussein - defected from the group a
few months ago, but holds substantiating documents on Izzat Ibrahim's
plans.
Gen. Adnan al-Dulaimi was a key man in Saddam's chemical weapons
production projects. After the fall of the dictator and when the
Ba'ath party was divided into the two branches of Yunes al-Ahmad
and Izzat Ibrahim, he joined the latter group and was deployed in
Northwestern Iraq, which is a bastion of Ba'ath terrorists, to produce
chemical substances.
"The 80mm mortar shells which landed in Khan al-Assal and killed
dozens of people were armed with the latest product of Dulaimi's hidden
laboratories sent to the Nusra members for testing," the source added.
"Also at his order, several former Iraqi military industries engineers
trained the Syrian terrorists on how to use these chemical weapons,"
the source said, adding that all plans in this connection were prepared
by Adnan al-Dulaimi and staged after the approval of Izzat Ibrahim.
The chemical mortar shells, which the source said were fired at
Khan al-Assal from the Nusra-ruled Kafr Dael in Northwestern Aleppo,
contained a chemical substance very familiar to the Iraqi Ba'ath party
leaders, Sarin nerve gas. Adnan Dulaimi and his Ba'athist colleagues
in Iraq's military industries mass-produced the same lethal gas and
used it in vast areas against the Iranian troops in the 1980-1988
war and eventually killed thousands of people in the Kurdish town of
Halabcheh with the same chemical agent.
UN human rights investigators announced just a few hours ago that
they have testimony indicating Syrian rebels have used Sarin gas.
Interviews with victims and doctors have provided "strong, concrete
suspicions" that rebels used the deadly nerve agent, according to
a lead investigator, who also stressed that there's no evidence yet
that the Syrian military used Sarin.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing
victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report
of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions
but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of Sarin gas, from the
way the victims were treated," member of the UN independent comm.