Wednesday
Jan162013
Syria Feature: US Finds "Assad Forces Probably Used Chemical Weapon" in Homs (Rogin)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:18 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
Testimony of victims of the "toxic gas" incident in Homs on 23 December
A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month....
United States diplomats in Turkey conducted a previously undisclosed, intensive investigation into claims that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, and made what an Obama administration official who reviewed the cable called a "compelling case" that Assad's military forces had used a deadly form of poison gas.