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July 23, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9415889/Rebels-forming-unit-to-secure-chemical-weapons-site.html

Did Syria Use Chemical Weapons?

(Telegraph-UK) Ruth Sherlock - Gen. Adnan Silou, the most senior ranking member of Bashar al-Assad's regime to defect, trained thousands of troops in how to secure what analysts believe are the largest chemical weapons stores in the world. "There were two main stores - warehouse 417 in east Damascus, and another, number 419 in the Homs area. We had 1,500 soldiers and two or three generals stationed at each base," he said. Gen. Silou is convinced that the regime sprayed pesticides from planes on populated areas in Rastan, a hub for the rebel Free Syrian Army close to Homs. In February and March patients who had fled Rastan and Homs for Lebanon showed signs of hair loss, skin irritation, chronic muscle pain and sickness. Doctors in Lebanon reported seeing unusual symptoms.

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