Which Side Is Guilty Of Targeting Un Experts?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402411/Snipers-target-UN-experts-Tyrant-accused-gun-ambush-chemical-weapons-team.html

[emmie]

they will blame each other, as both sides stand to gain and lose in this war of attrition.

[Gromit]

Unable to say.

Whoever it is, does not want the truth to be known.

[sandyRoe]

Will the doctors who treated the victims not be able to provide evidence, in the form of blood samples and the like, to the experts?

[mikey4444]

There was a report a few days ago from Jordan ( I think) where victims of the gassing had been smuggled to for treatment, that they had indeed been subject to chemical warfare.

Surely nobody is still suggesting that a chemical attack didn't happen ?

[ChillDoubt]

Surely nobody is still suggesting that a chemical attack didn't happen ?
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There are one or two........

[mikey4444]

Chili...it happened...end of story.

[Octavius]

I don't think so much that it happened - this is reportedly undeniable: "Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said three hospitals it supported in the Damascus area had treated about 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms", of whom 355 had died."

The question is whodunnit. Russians think the west have no proof either way.

[ChillDoubt]

I know mikey, one or two are still not convinced though:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1270543-4.html#answer-8296167

[mikey4444]

I can understand but do not condone the Russians stance with Syria...after all, they have been supplying the tyrant Assad with weapons for years, as they did his ghastly father before him. So, par for the course.

What I find puzzling however, is why China is playing hard ball as well. My knowledge of China and its politics is woefully inadequate, so is there any China-watchers here on AB that can explain why they are voting the way they they do ? Syria is far from being a Communist country. Is Syria supplying oil to China for instance ?

[ChillDoubt]

Generally 2 reasons, same as Russia.

1. Arms sales to said country

2. Anything to irk the West with their powers of veto at the UN.

[Octavius]

mikey, some info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Syria_relations

[youngmafbog]

//mikey4444 Chili...it happened...end of story//

As you seem to have some sort of devine insight that the rest of the world dont have perhaps you should be there contributing? Just what proof do you base this on?

I too suspect that Asad has done this, but I also have a nagging doubt that the other side could be quite capable of either doing it or setting it up to get the West to sort out Asad for them.

We should keep an open mind until we can be sure of exactly who did what. Ask mr Blair what the consequences of piling in with the wrong information does for you.

[mikey4444]

YMG and others...I would agree that there is some doubt who perpetrated this atrocity. It could be the rebels or Assad. But there is no doubt that a chemical weapon was used, as the UN will find out later today.

My money is on Assad because he has lots of stocks of chemical weapons and he has the means of getting the stuff into the suburb, by artillery shell.

It would make sense however, to wait until the UN Team have done their checking, before taking any decisive action against Assad.

[emmie]

the point being who did it...