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Syrian militants walk inside a trench in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, on January 2, 2017.
Syrian militants walk inside a trench in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, on January 2, 2017.
"There are serious concerns over the growing threat of 'chemical' terrorism in the Middle Eastern region, in particular, on the territory of Iraq and Syria," Lavrov said on Thursday.
"The militants not only use toxic chemicals, but also have their own technologies and production capabilities for the synthesis of full-fledged chemical warfare agents as well as established and branched channels for accessing the precursors," he added.
Lavrov also blasted a number of Western nations, which, he says, chose to turn a blind eye to the use of chemical arms by terrorists, making groundless accusations against the Syrian government instead.
Re gases, the ability to make all sorts of deadly gases has long been public record - e.g., whatever poison come from castor beans, et al.
Most of those poisons' patents ran in the twenty years after WWI! Since then they have been public records!
So I guess what he's saying is someone is providing the raw ingredients to ISIS; to wit: the US or Israel.
R.C.