It seems to me if Assad can't stop killing his people his airfields need to be destroyed. Assad has set presidential elections for June 3rd and is expected to win that election. There is actually places for people to place their ballots? What buildings are left? There are so many refugees the election can never be considered legitimate. The entire idea of elections is ridiculous.
April 21, 2014
AFP
PARIS - France (click here) has ‘information’ but no firm proof that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.
‘We have a few elements of information but I do not have the proof,’ Hollande said in a radio interview after he was asked about reports that Assad was currently using chemical weapons. ‘What I do know is what we have seen from this regime is the horrific methods it is capable of using and the rejection of any political transition,’ he told the Europe 1 radio station.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the same radio station there were ‘indications, which have yet to be verified, that there have been recent chemical attacks’. He said they were ‘much less significant than those in Damascus a few months ago but very deadly’, and had taken place in the northwest of the country, near the Lebanese border. A French source close to the matter told AFP that the reports ‘had come from different sources, including the Syrian opposition’....
...Last week the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical watchdog, said Syria had surrendered almost two-thirds of its chemical weapons, including many priority chemicals. Damascus had halted exports temporarily, citing security concerns, but restarted transfers earlier in April.
Speaking on April 14 after Syria had completed its latest shipment, the OPCW chief Ahmed Uzumcu said ‘both the frequency and the volumes of deliveries have to increase....
...‘On the day of the resurrection of Christ, and from the heart of Maalula, President Assad hopes all Syrians have a happy Easter, and for the reestablishment of peace and security throughout Syria,’...
Those good wishes didn't last long. Assad is using the same Russian strategy of seeking out minority populations and purporting to be their champion. Same thing. Ethnic divisions.
...Throughout Syria's conflict, the Assad regime has sought to portray itself as the protector of the country's religious minorities against a revolt it says is led by foreign-backed extremists. The Syrian opposition dismisses such claims as part of a divide-and-rule strategy which is also aimed at deterring the West from providing greater support to the rebels....
It is interesting, Assad appeared yesterday in Maalul, Syria. It is reported to have been taken back by Syrian forces last week. Maalul is considered among the oldest Christian settlements where Aramaic is spoken. Nothing like "Mission Accomplished" in time for Easter to raise the popularity quotient.
The neighborhood being reported as the subject of the latest chemical attacks is the same as before, Kafr Zeta in Hama Province. The chemical of choice this time is chlorine. It will burn lungs.
...Exposure to extremely high levels of pure chlorine gas (click here) can cause lung collapse and death. Exposure to high levels can cause pulmonary edema, rapid breathing, wheezing, blue coloring of the skin, vomiting, anxiety, accumulation of fluid in the lungs, severe eye and skin burns, loss of vision, and lung pain.
Exposure to low levels of pure chlorine gas is irritating to the respiratory tract, eyes, and skin. Exposure can cause sore or swollen throat, coughing, choking, sneezing, pneumonia, chest tightness and pain, headache, dizziness, watery eyes, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, vomiting blood, severe abdominal pain, skin blisters and irritation, difficulty breathing, and pain or burning in the stomach, nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue....
04/19/2014
...Sources (click here) have told Revolution News that 100 people were injured and suffocated as a direct result of barrel bombs containing chlorine gas that were thrown from Syrian regime helicopters.
The injured were taken to field hospitals for treatment and included women and children presenting with shortness of breath, vomiting and visual disturbances.
Chlorine is a so-called dual-use chemical and was not among the chemical agents declared by Assad under the latest chemical deal....
April 21, 2014
AFP
PARIS - France (click here) has ‘information’ but no firm proof that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.
‘We have a few elements of information but I do not have the proof,’ Hollande said in a radio interview after he was asked about reports that Assad was currently using chemical weapons. ‘What I do know is what we have seen from this regime is the horrific methods it is capable of using and the rejection of any political transition,’ he told the Europe 1 radio station.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the same radio station there were ‘indications, which have yet to be verified, that there have been recent chemical attacks’. He said they were ‘much less significant than those in Damascus a few months ago but very deadly’, and had taken place in the northwest of the country, near the Lebanese border. A French source close to the matter told AFP that the reports ‘had come from different sources, including the Syrian opposition’....
...Last week the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical watchdog, said Syria had surrendered almost two-thirds of its chemical weapons, including many priority chemicals. Damascus had halted exports temporarily, citing security concerns, but restarted transfers earlier in April.
Speaking on April 14 after Syria had completed its latest shipment, the OPCW chief Ahmed Uzumcu said ‘both the frequency and the volumes of deliveries have to increase....
...‘On the day of the resurrection of Christ, and from the heart of Maalula, President Assad hopes all Syrians have a happy Easter, and for the reestablishment of peace and security throughout Syria,’...
Those good wishes didn't last long. Assad is using the same Russian strategy of seeking out minority populations and purporting to be their champion. Same thing. Ethnic divisions.
...Throughout Syria's conflict, the Assad regime has sought to portray itself as the protector of the country's religious minorities against a revolt it says is led by foreign-backed extremists. The Syrian opposition dismisses such claims as part of a divide-and-rule strategy which is also aimed at deterring the West from providing greater support to the rebels....
It is interesting, Assad appeared yesterday in Maalul, Syria. It is reported to have been taken back by Syrian forces last week. Maalul is considered among the oldest Christian settlements where Aramaic is spoken. Nothing like "Mission Accomplished" in time for Easter to raise the popularity quotient.
The neighborhood being reported as the subject of the latest chemical attacks is the same as before, Kafr Zeta in Hama Province. The chemical of choice this time is chlorine. It will burn lungs.
...Exposure to extremely high levels of pure chlorine gas (click here) can cause lung collapse and death. Exposure to high levels can cause pulmonary edema, rapid breathing, wheezing, blue coloring of the skin, vomiting, anxiety, accumulation of fluid in the lungs, severe eye and skin burns, loss of vision, and lung pain.
Exposure to low levels of pure chlorine gas is irritating to the respiratory tract, eyes, and skin. Exposure can cause sore or swollen throat, coughing, choking, sneezing, pneumonia, chest tightness and pain, headache, dizziness, watery eyes, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, vomiting blood, severe abdominal pain, skin blisters and irritation, difficulty breathing, and pain or burning in the stomach, nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue....
04/19/2014
...Sources (click here) have told Revolution News that 100 people were injured and suffocated as a direct result of barrel bombs containing chlorine gas that were thrown from Syrian regime helicopters.
The injured were taken to field hospitals for treatment and included women and children presenting with shortness of breath, vomiting and visual disturbances.
Chlorine is a so-called dual-use chemical and was not among the chemical agents declared by Assad under the latest chemical deal....
