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Allegations of armed forces using toxic gas in Damascus countryside untrue
An official spokesman at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the cooperation agreement between Syria and the international committee for investigating the use of weapons of mass destruction in some areas in Syria didn't please the terrorists and the countries supporting them, which is why they came up with new false allegations that the Armed Forces used toxic gas in Damascus Countryside.
The spokesman said that the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirms that these allegations are false and untrue, and that the Ministry would like to point out that Syria has repeatedly announced that it will never use any weapons of mass destruction against its own people, if such weapons exist.
The spokesman said that these lies and allegations have become well-known to the Syrian government and people, and that the allegations constitute an attempt to prevent the international investigation committee from carrying outs its task and to influence the committee's report.
Comment: With the news that the only evidence of a 'chemical weapons attack' having taken place in Damascus is a series of videos uploaded to Youtube by agitators in Syria the day BEFORE the attack is supposed to have taken place, it's starting to look like no such event took place at all. We're still gathering evidence, but it seems more likely at this this stage that, as we learned after the Houla Massacre, these victims we see onscreen were in fact attacked by 'the rebels' - place and date unknown - then videos of the horrific deeds were uploaded online, and the Syrian govt blamed in the full glare of international media attention.