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Originally Posted by OhOh

https://www.yenisafak.com

......RT didn't cover this important event then...

Originally Posted by tomcat

......RT didn't cover this important event then...

Originally Posted by tomcat

RT didn't cover this important event then...

You have a problem with the source or the published article?

Nice flow chart 'arry.

Yesterday
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said Syrian forces had "nearly wiped out the terrorists" in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta.
Syrian troops have recaptured more than 90 percent of Ghouta, and are draining the last opposition pockets with negotiated pull-outs mediated by Russia.
Flash - Russia says 'terrorists nearly wiped out' of Syria's Eastern Ghouta - France 24


One hour ago
All E. Ghouta towns liberated, key Damascus highway open after 7yrs of blockade – Syrian military
https://www.rt.com/news/422867-syria...ies-liberated/

Well thanks to Vlad it looks like Assad has all but quelled the rebellion.

But the genie is well and truly out of the bottle, and short of creating an absolute North Korea style police state, expect an endless stream of revenge terror attacks until the majority get what they want.

Originally Posted by OhOh

You have a problem with the source or the published article?

Yep....

Yeni Şafak is a conservative Turkish daily newspaper. The newspaper is known for its hardline support of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Parti and has a very close relationship with the Turkish government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeni_%C5%9Eafak

*sigh*

Wiki........

"sigh"

Originally Posted by OhOh

Wiki........

"sigh"

So is that all you have? Are you refuting the comments? It is well known that that paper is a mouthpiece of Erdogan. Do you have credible evidence to refute that?

Since Trump has a track record of doing very little, I'm not expecting too much.....

Donald Trump warned there will be a “big price to pay” for a chemical strike in a rebel-held Damascus suburb that killed at least 42 people on Saturday, as the UK and France called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations security council in reaction to the the attack.The security council will meet twice on Monday. Russia, a backer of Bashar al-Assad, also called for a session.

The atrocity came amid a barrage by regime jets, helicopters and artillery on the district of Douma, which the European Union said pointed to “yet another chemical attack by the regime” as it called for an international response.

At least 300 people were affected by the gas, medics in Douma said. Many of the 42 who died had been sheltering in the basement of a building that was struck by a projectile shortly after 7.30pm. Ill-equipped local doctors said they treated patients for suffocation, foaming at the mouth, dilated pupils and burned eyes.

Victims of the strike reported a strong odour of chlorine – an industrial chemical that has been dropped by regime helicopters throughout the war. However, Jerry Smith, a former UN weapons inspector who investigated previous chemical attacks in Syria, said the high death toll, the speed of death and convulsions shown by some patients suggested another more lethal compound – possibly organophosphate based – may have been used.

Sarin is an organophosphate chemical that has been repeatedly used in Syria – including in a mass attack on Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017 and in Ghouta in August 2013. European intelligence agencies have gathered evidence that regime officials have mixed sarin and chlorine, which dilutes the gas while ensuring it remains a potent killer – especially if delivered in confined spaces.

US government sources, quoted by Reuters, said that an initial assessment had found that chemical weapons were used in the attack. The determination was made with some degree of confidence, said the sources, who stopped short of assigning blame.

Britain’s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, described the developments as “deeply disturbing” and urged Russia not to impede an independent investigation. In a call with Vladimir Putin that took place before the attack, French leader Emmanuel Macron had agreed to “put an end to the military escalation of recent months”.


Macron has flagged “very clear red lines” over the use of chemical weapons. In a statement, the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said he “condemned in the strongest terms” the Syrian regime’s siege of Douma: “The use of chemical arms is a war crime and a violation of the international non-proliferation regime. France, as the president of the Republic has said several times, will take all its responsibilities in terms of the fight against chemical proliferation.”

Trump demanded that access be opened to Douma, the last of three besieged districts in the Ghouta area of Damascus to remain under opposition control. Access was necessary to verify what had happened and treat remaining victims, he said, writing in a tweet: “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and verification.”

His demand came a year to the day after he ordered a strike that saw 59 missiles crash into a Syrian air base thought to be the launching pad for the attack on Khan Sheikhoun. Trump had vowed to order another attack if chemicals were used again.

Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a member of the Senate armed services committee, signalled Republican support for a strike when he told NBC he thought Trump would now “have to send a message that he means what he said”. Ben Cardin of Maryland, a Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, told CBS there should be “an international response”.

Rescue workers said they were attacked by jets as they tried to access the site in Douma. The bombing of the building where the civilians were hiding came amid a relentless assault local officials said targeted hospitals and civil defence centres.

It appeared to be aimed at forcing the surrender of remaining rebels who have periodically shelled central Damascus in recent months. One such shelling killed at least six civilians on Friday, Syrian officials said. Opposition officials and regional diplomats ascribed other motives to the use of gas, underpinned by a culture of impunity.


They do this when they think they’re being defied, when they’ve just suffered a humiliation on the battlefield, or when they feel they need to assert psychological dominance,” said a senior European official. “You can often feel the temperature rising before they do something like this. They think that the rest of the world is bluffing, and they know Russia and Iran will give them complete cover.”
The strike ordered by Trump after Khan Sheikhoun was largely symbolic, damaging runways and hangars that were quickly repaired Russia and Iran claimed the latest chemical attack was a “false flag”. Iran said it had been staged as a pretext for a US intervention. Syrian state media said rebels were in a state of collapse and spreading “fake” news.
A ground attack on Douma has so far failed, frustrating Syrian officials who have blockaded the rebel bastion for six years. Negotiations between regime officials and Jeysh al-Islam, which controls Douma, are reported to have restarted.

Trump’s recent announcement that the US would pull out of Syria “very soon” has been widely read in the region as the president losing interest in maintaining an American stake in trying to shape the conflict. The US has largely confined its role since Trump’s election to fighting Islamic State in the east, stopping the small-scale military support to vetted groups that started under Barack Obama.

Both Trump and the US government offered little commentary as the other two districts of Ghouta fell to Russian and Syrian forces in March, during often indiscriminate bombardments that claimed at least 2,000 lives, many civilians. After being starved and bombed to submission, rebel groups and opposition communities from both areas have been bussed to Idlib province in northern Syria.

On Sunday, the Arizona Republican senator John McCain said Assad, Russia and Iran had been “emboldened by American inaction”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...weapons-attack

Evidence of damage, factual reports from hospitals and evidence of anything shot down would of course be useful. Maybe ameristan can assist us with evidence. Similar to the "Iranian" missiles "used" by the Yemen government to protect it's citizens.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Evidence of damage, factual reports from hospitals and evidence of anything shot down would of course be useful.

This seems to be your stock reply.

Of course as soon as anything is produced, you'll then denounce it as being faked.

Meanwhile you'll be running around trying to find Sputnik or RT propaganda that blames it on someone else.

You're sooooooooooooo predictable.

^ Spot on!

This probably never happened because the source is apparently full of shit.

A Syrian war-monitoring group says 14 people, including Iranians, were killed in a missile attack early in the morning on an air base in central Syria.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says most of the 14 killed were either Iranians or members of Iran-backed groups.
Syria’s state-run news agency earlier reported that missiles struck the T4 air base early on Monday. It said the attack left people dead and wounded. Although the agency said it was likely “an American aggression,” U.S. officials said the United States had not launched any airstrikes on Syria.
Al-Manar TV station of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group, which is fighting in Syria alongside the government forces, described the attack as an “Israeli aggression.”
The Observatory says it wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the attack.

Syria Monitors: 14 Killed in Homs Air Base Missile Strike | Time

Originally Posted by OhOh

factual reports

Yeni Şafak

Originally Posted by bsnub

It is well known that that paper is a mouthpiece of Erdogan. Do you have credible evidence to refute that?

Dodged the question.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Dodged the question

...resident rusbots may not be programmed to answer questions...

^^ well it seems the blue suede shoes dunnit and the Putin girls choir won't be able to argue because that's what Russia says.

Glad to see you back 'arry. I missed your unbiased repartee.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

because that's what Russia says

Believing Russian sources now!

How quaint.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Oh dear, back to normal.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Believing Russian sources now!

Er, no. I simply said "that's what Russia says".

Of course they could say that the moon is made of green camembert and you would consider it to be fact.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

This probably never happened because the source is apparently full of shit.

What did really happen depends on what source has reported it... (is it so easy for ignorants, isn't it?)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

What did really happen depends on what source has reported it... (is it so easy for ignorants, isn't it?)

(Yet again).

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Er, no. I simply said "that's what Russia says".

My apologies, you are correct, this time.

From the ameristani regimes UN speaker:

"Justifying the nay vote by the US, Ambassador Nikki Haley accused Russians of hypocrisy, claiming it is "very good in being consistent and playing games." The proposed draft, she said, "does not accomplish anything."

"The draft resolution mainly asks for the OPCW to send a fact-finding mission to Douma. But the fact-finding mission is already travelling to Douma, they have a mandate to investigate and collect samples," Haley noted. The draft, she argued, aimed to put "the Russian and the Syrian governments in the driver's seat for making arrangements" and to "micromanage" the OPCW investigation.


"This Council, and least of all Russia, should not be calling the shots," she stressed."

One wonders what see had to say regarding the UK government "calling the shots" on the "Salisbury Incident OPCW investigation"?

https://www.rt.com/news/423762-syria-investigation-draft-rejected/



OPCW Will Deploy Fact-Finding Mission to Douma, Syria

"THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 10 April 2018 — Since the first reports of alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syrian Arab Republic, were issued, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been gathering information from all available sources and analysing it. At the same time, OPCW’s Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, has considered the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team to Douma to establish facts surrounding these allegations.

Today, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment. This has coincided with a request from the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. The team is preparing to deploy to Syria shortly. "

https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-will-deploy-fact-finding-mission-to-douma-syria/