America assessment results highly confident Syrian government says 1,429 civilians lethal chemical weapons

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Washington, August 30 (Reporter Zhang Weiran) - Syrian chemical weapons in time for the UN Panel report released before the 30 U.S. intelligence agencies announced results of the evaluation of the incident: U.S. highly confident that the Syrian government in the 21st Damascus suburban attacks using chemical weapons, leading to 1,429 civilians were killed, including at least 426 children.

U.S. Secretary of State Warren said that the day of the press conference, the Syrian government has the entire Middle East region's largest chemical weapons program, this year has been repeatedly used chemical weapons, although the use of a smaller scale, but there is no doubt that chemical weapons have been aligned with the Syrian civilians, including 21 chemical weapons attacks occurred.

He said that three days before the attacks, the Syrian army related personnel on the ground to prepare, they were told to wear gas masks, to take precautionary measures in advance, these are very specific instructions. The U.S. side also equipped with chemical weapons master rocket launch time and place, time and place of landing, rockets launched from areas controlled by government forces, invest or disputed by the opposition-controlled areas.

Assessment report said that after the United States confirmed the authenticity of the large number of video display, the victim's symptoms include coma, nose and mouth spewing foam, pupil contraction, breathing difficulties. Some videos show that the deceased did not have any apparent injuries, indicating that they were killed by chemical weapons.

The report also revealed that the U.S. government intercepted a Syrian senior official communications, the official confirmed that the Syrian regime launched a chemical weapons attack, and verification aspects of the United Nations forensic worried.

Kerry said the Syrian chemical weapons incident not only a threat to U.S. security, but also a threat to Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and other countries safe. The United States has promised that if the Syrian chemical weapons crossed the "red line," they must be held accountable, the whole world is watching how America will act, the matter related to U.S. global leadership and credibility.

He said the U.S. government will continue to maintain communication with Congress and allies, according to their own schedule, and values ​​to make decisions in line with U.S. interests.
But he also pointed out that Obama made the decision, not with the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, or even any decision on the issue of similarities, the United States would not send ground troops.

"Military means can not resolve the conflict, and finally to return to the negotiating table to solve the problem through political means." Kerry said.

Currently, the UN investigation team Syrian chemical weapons have not yet returned to New York. Kerry said this, the mission braving a hail of bullets to work in Syria, the United States respect the United Nations action. But as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the investigation merely confirmed Syria has no use of chemical weapons, and will not confirm who used chemical weapons, so the United Nations could not tell any of the U.S. "We are not aware of the" information.