U.S. Reports of 'Chemical Incident' in Syria Based on Terrorists’ Claims
MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Recent U.S. claims about the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government troops are based on information from unverified sources, including from terrorist groups, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, says.
"It is likely to be about one more [chemical attack] plot staged by militants of the armed Syrian opposition in the settlement of Kabani in the province of Latakia. The information [about the alleged attack] was posted at internet portals that belong to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group. These dubious sources of information were used for the statements made by the UN Security Council’s permanent member [the United States]”, Zakharova said at a press briefing.
She pointed out that speculations about the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government troops became an inherent part of NATO policy on Syria and the Middle East.
From Zakharova’s point of view, the West continues to uphold the policy of permanent destabilization of the situation in Syria, instead of promoting a peace settlement.
The spokeswoman added that Western countries were showing readiness to react immediately to such information attacks.
Days earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said foreign-sponsored terrorist groups have stockpiled a large number of chemical munitions in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib in preparation for a false-flag attack to implicate government troops and invent pretexts for possible foreign acts of aggression on the crisis-hit Arab country.
The ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement that the extremists have laced the weapons with nerve agents for this end.
"The militants plan to stage such provocations in the village of Jarjanaz, as well as in the town of Saraqib, where a group of children and adults — refugees from the southern provinces of Syria — have already been gathered. Similar preparations are underway in the west of Aleppo province", Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin said at a daily briefing.
The center went on to say that militant groups, under the leadership of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terror outfit – formerly known as al-Nusra Front, sought to attack the positions of Syrian army forces in al-Hobait village of Idlib province as well as the towns of Kafr Nabudah and Kafr Zita in the western-central province of Hama by means of tank shell and car bombs.
This file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows medical staff treating a boy following a chemical attack on his town in Aleppo, Syria, on November 24, 2018.
"It is likely to be about one more [chemical attack] plot staged by militants of the armed Syrian opposition in the settlement of Kabani in the province of Latakia. The information [about the alleged attack] was posted at internet portals that belong to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group. These dubious sources of information were used for the statements made by the UN Security Council’s permanent member [the United States]”, Zakharova said at a press briefing.
She pointed out that speculations about the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government troops became an inherent part of NATO policy on Syria and the Middle East.
From Zakharova’s point of view, the West continues to uphold the policy of permanent destabilization of the situation in Syria, instead of promoting a peace settlement.
The spokeswoman added that Western countries were showing readiness to react immediately to such information attacks.
Days earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said foreign-sponsored terrorist groups have stockpiled a large number of chemical munitions in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib in preparation for a false-flag attack to implicate government troops and invent pretexts for possible foreign acts of aggression on the crisis-hit Arab country.
The ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement that the extremists have laced the weapons with nerve agents for this end.
"The militants plan to stage such provocations in the village of Jarjanaz, as well as in the town of Saraqib, where a group of children and adults — refugees from the southern provinces of Syria — have already been gathered. Similar preparations are underway in the west of Aleppo province", Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin said at a daily briefing.
The center went on to say that militant groups, under the leadership of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terror outfit – formerly known as al-Nusra Front, sought to attack the positions of Syrian army forces in al-Hobait village of Idlib province as well as the towns of Kafr Nabudah and Kafr Zita in the western-central province of Hama by means of tank shell and car bombs.
This file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows medical staff treating a boy following a chemical attack on his town in Aleppo, Syria, on November 24, 2018.