Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: A Deadly Car Bomb in Damascus
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 9:20 | Scott Lucas in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 
A petrol station in the Barzeh area of Damascus, destroyed by a car bomb on Thursday night
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Thursday's Syria (and Beyond) Coverage: UN --- Death Toll Passes 60,000
2107 GMT: Syria. The head of the insurgency's military command, Brigadier Selim Idris, has denied reports that his troops possess chemical weapons and intend to respond in kind if the Syrian regime uses them.
The political adviser of the Free Syrian Army, Bassam al-Dada, said on Wednesday that insurgents could put together components of chemical weapons and use them if necessary.
“In our faith, we can't use such a weapon,” even if the regime attacked with it, Idris said. "We will not try to acquire them, will definitely not produce them or facilitate their production."