Gas missiles 'were not sold to Syria'
Export papers seem to back Assad's denial over sarin attack – but Russians won't go into detail
While
the Assad regime in Damascus has denied responsibility for the sarin
gas missiles that killed around 1,400 Syrians in the suburb of Ghouta on
21 August,
information is now circulating in the city that Russia's new "evidence"
about the attack includes the dates of export of the specific rockets
used and – more importantly – the countries to which they were
originally sold. They were apparently manufactured in the Soviet Union
in 1967 and sold by Moscow to three Arab countries, Yemen, Egypt and
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. These details cannot be verified in
documents, and Vladimir Putin has not revealed the reasons why he told
Barack Obama that he knows Assad's army did not fire the sarin missiles;
but if the information is correct – and it is believed to have come
from Moscow – Russia did not sell this particular batch of chemical
munitions to Syria.
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