Syria rebels, government report poison gas attack

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By BASSEM MROUE

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday that poison gas had been used in a central village, blaming each other for an attack that reportedly injured scores of people.

Details of the attack Friday in Kfar Zeita, a village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, remained sketchy Saturday night.

But online videos posted by rebel activists showed pale-faced men, women and children gasping for breath at a field hospital, suggesting an affliction by some kind of poison in a conflict that's seen hundreds killed by chemical weapons.

The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack hurt dozens of people, though it did not identify the gas used.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Welp, we're gonna have to bomb them after all.

[Lasher]

2. Remember Curveball n/t

[Purveyor]

3. Xinhua: Syria Accuses Rebels Of Using Toxic Gas In Hama Province

DAMASCUS, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Syria's official TV said Saturday that the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front used toxic gas in the central province of Hama, killing at least two people and causing suffocation to hundred others.

The TV said the Nusra Front fighters used the Chlorine gas against the town of Kafr Zaita in the northern countryside of Hama, adding that Nusra Front was also planning to use the toxic gas against the Wadi al-Daif area in the countryside of Idlib province in northwestern Syria and the town of Mork in Hama countryside.

Meanwhile, the opposition activists turned the accusation against the Syrian government, saying that at least six people had been killed and 100 others affected by the government forces' use of poisonous gas in Kafr Zaita and the Harasta suburb, in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus.

The first use of chemical gas was reported in an attack on March 19, 2013 in the government-controlled Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal, which killed 26 people, including 16 military personnel, and injured 86 others. The Syrian government and the rebels traded accusation over the attack.

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2014-04/12/c_133257701.htm

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. I bet we'll be too busy with the new Cold War to do much about this.

We'll see.