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Regarding the rebel attacks on Kurdish civilian targets in Aleppo during April 2016, Chris asserts that the rebels used chemical weapons, and has continually done so. Since no one disagrees that these were a series of criminal attacks, that other rebel leaderships and the opposition leadership as a whole condemned, I’m not sure why it needs to be embellished with the chemical stuff. It seems to be some way of equalising regime and opposition. Yet when asked for evidence, we come back to the doctor’s claim in the Amnesty report that these symptoms “could be the effects of a chlorine attack." Chris says this is “fairly strong evidence.” However, “could be” is not “strong.” When the Assad regime launched massive sarin attacks on a range of rebel-held Damascus suburbs, surrounding regime-held central Damascus in an arch-shape that strongly indicates the attack came from the regime, and given the massive nature of the attack that every expert knew would have required aircraft or at least far more advanced weaponry than anything possessed by the rebels, GLW decided the chemical attack had been carried out by “unknown” sources. Yet when symptoms “could be” the effects of a chemical attack, this apparently is evidence that the rebels “have carried out chemical attacks.” All killing of civilian populations by any side should always be condemned, and nom party is innocent. But the only qualitative difference in Syria is between the regime/Russia and everyone else; the first are responsible for nearly all civilian slaughter. Even HTS, sectarian and reactionary as it is, is a little mouse compared to the regime, by every possible objective standard. Did they do this? I dunno, I need better evidence than that a pathologically lying genocidal regime said so. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
