Syrian rebels are being armed by the West through their Arab states allies via Turkey to Syria

Jun. 23, 2013 (TSR-Alalam) — A new report implicates two Qatari officers for a March 13 chemical attack in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo.

The Sunday report by the Lebanese daily Al Akhbar said Qatari officers Saeid al Hajeri and Faleh bin khalid al Tamimi sneaked chemical materials through the Turkish border into Syria, where they were used by militants to launch a deadly attack on Aleppo’s Khan al-Asal district.

The report adds that details of the case have been handed over to the Russian intelligence agency.

Damascus called for an international probe into the attack that killed over two dozen Syrians.

This came as some Western states accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants operating in the country.

French officials claimed on June 4 that they were in possession of “evidence,” based on laboratory tests that proved nerve gas Sarin had been used by the government forces in Syria.

Damascus strongly rejected the claim as “lies,” saying that the militants have used chemical weapons on several occasions, including the attack in the region of Khan al-Asal.

The foreign-sponsored militancy that has gripped Syria for more than two years has so far resulted in the killings of many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security personnel.

UN rejects US claim on Syria chemical arms

UN experts say they do not confirm the claims by the United States, France and Britain that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the militants.

“We are not able to say who has used chemical agents or chemical weapons,” said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the United Nations human rights investigation committee on Syria, on Friday.

Speaking to reporters after an informal meeting with UN Security Council ambassadors, Pinheiro said he would not comment on evidence, including multiple blood, tissue and soil samples, that the US, Britain and France have sent to the UN about the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The technical data presented by the three countries is of limited value to the UN which, according to its rules, can pass a final judgment on the situation only after its own inspectors personally collect evidence.

Based on the unsubstantiated claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the militants, President Barack Obama ordered the CIA last week to provide arms to the anti-Syrian groups, saying the government of President Bashar al-Assad had crossed Washington’s red lines.

In an article on the Washington Post on Friday, Colum Lynch and Joby Warrick write that the US move “rests on unverifiable claims” that lack transparency.

Weapons experts say Obama’s declaration of Washington’s red line in terms of more involvement in Syria “handed the Syrian opposition a powerful incentive to fabricate evidence” against the Assad government regarding the chemical arms use, the article said.

“If you are the opposition and you hear” that the White House has drawn a red line on the use of nerve agents, then “you have an interest in giving the impression that some chemical weapons have been used,” said Rolf Ekeus, a Swedish scientist who headed UN weapons inspections in Iraq during the 1990s, the article read.

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