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News ID: 51282
Publish Date : 18 March 2018 - 21:36
Russian Cmdr.:

U.S. Training Terrorists in Syria for False Flag Chemical Attacks


MOSCOW (Dispatches) – A high-ranking Russian military commander has warned that the United States is training foreign-sponsored terrorists in the hope that they would launch false flag chemical attacks in southern Syria to provide a pretext for Washington to carry out airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure.
"We have reliable information at our disposal that U.S. instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria,” Russian General Staff spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said at a news briefing in Moscow.
He added, "Early in March, the saboteur groups were deployed to the southern de-escalation zone to the city of Dara’a, where the units of the so-called Free Syrian Army are stationed.”
"They are preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions. This fact will be used to blame government forces. The components to produce chemical munitions have been already delivered to the southern de-escalation zone under the guise of humanitarian convoys of a number of NGOs,” Rudskoy commented.
The senior Russian military further noted that the planned provocations would be widely covered in Western media outlets, and would ultimately be used as a pretext by the U.S.-led coalition to launch strikes on Syria.
Rudskoy warned that another false flag chemical attack was being prepared in Syria’s northern province of Idlib by members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, in coordination with the White Helmets.
The White Helmets is a self-proclaimed civil defense group that has been documented to have ties with anti-Damascus militant groups as well as Western and Persian Gulf Arab governments backing the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A member of Syrian government forces helps children drink from a water bottle during a civilian evacuation from Eastern Ghouta through the government-controlled corridor opened by government forces in Hawsh al-Ashaari, east of the town of Hamouria on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 15, 2018.