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International News Title: Russia Says Syria Invited Chemical Weapons Experts to Idlib Syrias government invited the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to visit the site of the April 4 incident and the airbase that the U.S. later bombed, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Representatives of United Nations Security Council members, the European Union and the Middle East should travel with OPCW inspectors to ensure a transparent investigation, he said at a meeting with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed Al Thani Saturday in Moscow. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered cruise-missile strikes on an airbase in Syria last week, and his administration accused Russia was helping to cover up Assads role in the chemical-weapons attack. The Kremlin contended the chemicals were under the control of terrorists, while Lavrov said Friday he sees growing evidence that the incident was staged. Russia hasnt publicly provided any proof to back that up. Within the framework of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the UN, we will insist on the immediate dispatch of inspectors both to the site of the incident and the airbase where our western colleagues claim missiles were loaded with chemical substances, Lavrov said. The OPCW reported to the United Nations last year that its inspectors detected the presence of previously undeclared chemical warfare agents in Syria. The group had earlier certified that Syria disposed of its stockpiles and was dismantling product facilities under a deal Russia helped broker with the U.S. in 2013. While Lavrov, who met with his Iranian and Syrian counterparts Friday, called for an independent investigation, Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that demanded the Syrian government cooperate with an inquiry into the suspected sarin-gas attack that killed dozens of people. The crisis dominated U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillersons first meeting in his new role with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. The Kremlin has rebuffed U.S. demands to abandon its ally Assad. Putins military backing of Assad has been crucial in keeping the regime in power after six years of civil war. While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the U.S. didnt provide evidence that Assad was responsible for the April 4 attack in Idlib, officials in Washington on Tuesday published a four-page document containing satellite images, reports from the scene and details of exposure gathered from victims. Poster Comment: We'll see what they find. Chem weapons disperse but leave behind trace amounts that can be detected with some lab work. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Most everything done today is "staged".
I notice that Russia and Syria seem to be willing for a neutral investigation. None of the Western leaders seems to want that because they've already convicted Assad without presenting any evidence or holding a fair hearing. We'll see how this unwinds.
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