Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 13-04-2017
Syrian president Bashar al Assad says an alleged poison Sarin gas attack blamed on his government last week in Idlib was 100% fake news to justify a US airstrike.
Assad has told AFP that Syria’s military gave up all its chemical weapons in 2013 after an agreement made at the time and would not have used them anyway.
The U.S. and other nations accuse Assad’s regime of using chemical weapons in an April 4 attack in a rebel-held town in Idlib province.
Assad says the attack that killed at least 86 people last week was a “fabrication”.
“Our impression that the West, mainly the United States is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. It wasn’t an attack because of what happened in Khan Sheikhoun, its one event. It’s a stage one, the play that we saw on the social networking and on TV’s and the propaganda and the stage 2, the military attack.”
The attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun killed scores of people and prompted the US to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from two warships in the Mediterranean at the Shayrat airfield in Homs province, targeting the base from where US officials believe the attack had been launched.
It’s the first direct military action the US has taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the country’s long-running conflict, now in its seventh year.
The UN special envoy for Syria has estimated that 400,000 people have so far been killed in the conflict.
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