Tuesday, May 7, 2013

U.N. says Syrian rebels used chem weapons, Dem says arm rebels (naturally)

 

 

 

 

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U.N. says Syrian rebels used chem weapons, Dem says arm rebels

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Obama’s Syrian rebels are using chemical weapons. via U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator | Reuters.

(Reuters) – U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.

The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.

“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.

“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added, speaking in Italian.

And the same U.S. politicians who want to disarm American citizens want to use American taxpayer money to arm jihadists, Democrat Menendez introduces bill in Senate to arm Syria opposition.

A top Senate Democrat nudged the Obama administration to provide weapons to the Syrian opposition, introducing a bill Monday that would explicitly allow the U.S. to provide arms, military training and non-lethal aid to the rebels.

Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the legislation on the heels of U.S. intelligence claims that chemical weapons likely were used in the country.

“The Assad regime has crossed a red line that forces us to consider all options,” Menendez said in a written statement. “The greatest humanitarian crisis in the world is unfolding in and around Syria, and the U.S. must play a role in tipping the scales toward opposition groups and working to build a free Syria.”

This is a step some lawmakers, like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have been urging the U.S. to take for months. But amid claims that extremist elements have infiltrated parts of the anti-Assad forces, any effort to arm the groups would come with inherent risk that weapons could fall into the wrong hands.

Menendez’s office claimed his bill would require any group receiving arms to go through a “thorough vetting process.” Without getting into detail, his office said those groups would have to “meet certain criteria on human-rights, terrorism, and non-proliferation.”

The bill also would create a $250 million fund to assist the country in a transition after the end of the Assad regime. The measure would give the U.S. government the power to sanction any individual who sells or transfers military equipment, weapons or oil to Assad.

Keep in mind that Menendez is the sick New Jersey Democrat whom media refused to investigate and for whom DHS delayed arrest of Sen. Menendez’s illegal alien sex offender intern for election. Nevertheless, Obama moving toward sending lethal arms to Syrian rebels. The GOP is delusional too:

U.S. lawmakers called Sunday on President Barack Obama to provide intelligence and training to Syrian rebels through Arab states to speed the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said such a combination should also aim to leave a stabilizing force in place in Syria after Assad’s fall — without committing U.S. ground forces.

Rogers, a Republican, said the situation in Syria was “deteriorating by the day” with thousands of foreign fighters flooding into the country on both sides of the civil war, creating an unstable mix.

And flashback to this post: In 2010, Syrian Muslim appointed Sr Policy Advisor at DHS.

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