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    Chemical weapons allegedly used by rebels in Syria

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    Post by Lobo Fri 06 Nov 2015, 2:38 pm

    Chemical weapons allegedly used by rebels in Syria

    Watchdog agency says mustard gas likely killed baby in town where ISIL battled another rebel group, Reuters reports

    November 5, 2015 4:36PM ET



    Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters were battling another rebel group, according to a report produced by an international watchdog and seen by Reuters news agency.
    The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) Oct. 29 confidential report, a summary of which was shown to Reuters, concluded "with the utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulfur mustard" in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, on Aug. 21.
    "It is very likely that the effects of sulfur mustard resulted in the death of a baby," it said.



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    US investigating whether ISIL used chemical weapons

    About 60 Kurdish fighters report breathing difficulties, according to the German military officials training them

    The findings provide the first official confirmation of use of sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, in Syria since the government agreed to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, which included the chemical.
    The report did not mention ISIL, as the fact-finding mission was not mandated to assign blame. Diplomatic sources said the chemical had been used at the time in that town, in clashes between ISIL and another rebel group.
    "It raises the major question of where the sulfur mustard came from," one source said. "Either they (ISIL) gained the ability to make it themselves, or it may have come from an undeclared stockpile overtaken by ISIL. Both are worrying options."
    Syria is supposed to have completely surrendered the toxic chemicals 18 months ago. Their use violates U.N. Security Council resolutions and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
    The report, which will be formally presented to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon later this month, adds to a growing body of evidence that the Islamic State group has obtained, and is using, chemical weapons in both Iraq and Syria.
    Kurdish authorities said earlier this month that ISIL fighters fired mortar rounds containing mustard agent at Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq during clashes in August. They said blood samples taken from around 35 fighters who were exposed in the attack southwest of the regional capital of Erbil showed "signatures" of mustard gas.
    A team of OPCW experts has been sent to Iraq to confirm the findings and is expected to obtain its own samples later this month, one diplomat said.
    A special session has been called by the OPCW's 41-member Executive Council to discuss the Syrian findings. It will be held in The Hague on Nov. 23, sources at the OPCW told Reuters.





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    ISIL may have attacked Peshmerga with chemical weapons, say Kurdish forces

    US authorities say they are looking into reports from Kurdish forces that ISIL is using chemical weapons against them




    Sulfur mustard — which causes severe delayed burns to the eyes, skin and lungs — is a so-called Schedule 1 chemical agent, meaning it has few uses outside warfare.

    A second report by the OPCW fact-finding mission to Syria said the team had so far been unable to substantiate claims from the Syrian government that its forces had been targeted by insurgents using chemical weapons.

    The mission "cannot confidently determine whether or not a chemical was used as a weapon" by fighters in the Jober area on Aug. 29, 2014, it said.

    Syria agreed in September 2013 to destroy its entire chemical weapons program under a deal negotiated with the United States and Russia after hundreds of people were killed in a sarin gas attack in the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.

    The last of 1,300 tons of chemical weapons declared to the OPCW was handed over in June, 2014, but several Western governments have expressed doubt that the government of President Bashar al-Assad declared its entire arsenal.

    With Syria's civil war in its fifth year, chlorine has also been used illegally in systematic attacks against civilians, the OPCW found.

    In the Idlib province south of Aleppo, the report said, there were several incidents between March and May of 2015 which "likely involved the use of one or more toxic chemicals".

    A U.N.-OPCW joint investigative mission has been assigned to determine who was behind those attacks.
    Reuters
    http://world.einnews.com/article/295565748/zms7EiXST8DSBb_o

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