Proxy Warriors Conduct New Chemical Weapons Attack In Syria
By Countercurrents.org
30 October 2013
Countercurrents.org
The proxy warriors have used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, a Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen reported.
The chemical attack was reported by Kurdish defense forces. The Kurdish fighters are conducting military operations against the proxy warriors in the region.
The toxic shell exploded near a Kurdish defense forces’ checkpoint close to the border with Turkey in the city of Ras al-Ayn al-Hasakah.
They saw toxic yellow smoke that followed the shell explosion while some of them had symptoms of severe chemical intoxication accompanied by nausea.
The reported chemical attack comes amid the second day of fierce fighting in the town.
The Kurdish forces have successfully repelled several attacks by armed groups of the jihadist Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, killing 28 militants.
This chemical attack comes as the joint mission of UN international experts and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is in Syria inspecting the sites of the toxic attacks and destroying chemical weaponry.
Syria has also begun destroying the first chemical weapons at that time, which, according to the deal brokered by the US and Russia in September, must be fully eliminated by June 30, 2014. Syrian authorities have declared 23 chemical weapons sites.
The joint mission has verified 21 sites, the organization said in a report acquired by AP on Monday.
“The two remaining sites have not been visited due to security reasons,” the report added, suggesting that are in rebel-held areas.
Syria has also declared 41 facilities - 18 chemical weapons production facilities, 12 chemical weapons storage facilities, eight mobile units to fill chemical weapons, and three chemical weapons-related facilities - at the chemical sites where it stored approximately 1,300 tons of precursors and agents, and over 1,200 unfilled munitions to deliver them.
"In addition, the Syrian authorities have reported finding two cylinders not belonging to them, which are believed to contain chemical weapons," said Ahmet Uzumcu, chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog, in the OPCW report.
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