US , Daesh and Turkey the makings of a depraved (wealth, oil and Serin nerve gas) and deadly threesome.

PRESS TV

Daesh acquiring sarin nerve gas materials via Turkey: Turkish MP

Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:52PM

United Nations arms experts collecting samples as they inspect the site of a suspected chemical weapons strike near the Syrian capital Damascus (AFP)

 

The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group acquired the necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey, a Turkish MP says.


Citing evidence from a suddenly-closed criminal case, Eren Erdem, a member of Turkish main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), told RT on Monday that Ankara had failed to investigate the supply routes used to provide Daesh with the ingredients of the toxic gas.
“There is data in this indictment. Chemical weapon materials are being brought to Turkey and being put together in Syria in camps of Daesh,” he said.

On August 21, 2013, a chemical weapon was used in the Ghouta area of Damascus suburbs. Hundreds of people died in the attack. According to reports, the rockets used in the attack were handmade and contained sarin.

Erdem, who claims the Turkish government is covering up the subject, brought the matter up in parliament on Thursday. He referred to a criminal case with the number 2013/12 opened by Adana’s General Prosecutor's Office.

Read More Here

...................................................................................................

Daily Star

TOXIC TERROR: ISIS 'obtained nerve gas via Turkey' to use on the WEST

ISIS militants obtained the deadly nerve gas Sarin via Turkey sparking fears the murderous regime is producing chemical weapons to use against the West.

By Rory McKeown/Published 14th December 2015

THREAT: Claims have emerged ISIS obtained sarin gas material via Turkey

 

 

TWITTER  CLAIMS: Turkish MP Eren Erdem

“There are phone recordings of this shipment like ‘don’t worry about the border, we’ll take care of it’ and we also see the bureaucracy is being used”

Eren Erdem

Turkish MP Eren Erdem claims Daesh warmongers obtained the materials to produce the deadly chemical in Turkey – and said a cover-up may have taken place.

 

It was feared ISIS murderers may have smuggled the nerve gas into Europe by militants posing as migrants.

And officials believe ISIS are “aggressively developing chemical weapons” and even set up a new cell dedicated to creating weapons of mass destruction.

Read More Here

...................................................................................................

 Sputnik

European MP Claims ‘US Doing Business on Daesh Oil’

© Flickr/ olle svensson

Europe

10:46 12.12.2015(updated 10:53 12.12.2015) 

Turkey is buying oil from Daesh terrorists at half the price and resells it to third countries, a Polish member of the European parliament said Friday, adding that the US shows a great deal of interest in the oil supplied by the terrorists.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke said that the United States was “doing business” on buying stolen oil from Daesh terrorists using Turkey as a middleman.

“I have information from America. America is doing business. Turkey is buying oil from the Caliphate [Daesh] at half the price and America is showing a great deal of interest in this oil,” the European MEP emphasized, adding that this information had been confirmed by top government officials in Lebanon.

Read More Here

............................................................................................

EXCLUSIVE: Sarin materials brought via Turkey & mixed in Syrian ISIS camps – Turkish MP to RT

Published time: 14 Dec, 2015 05:03Edited time: 14 Dec, 2015

Islamic State terrorists in Syria received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey, Turkish MP Eren Erdem has told RT, insisting there are grounds to believe a cover up has taken place.

TrendsIslamic State, Syria unrest

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) member, Erdem, brought up the issue for public discussion in parliament last week, citing evidence from an abruptly-closed criminal case. He accused Ankara of failing to investigate Turkish supply routes used to provide terrorists with toxic sarin gas ingredients.

“There is data in this indictment. Chemical weapon materials are being brought to Turkey and being put together in Syria in camps of ISIS which was known as Iraqi Al Qaeda during that time," Erdem told RT.

Sarin gas is a military-grade chemical that was used in a notorious attack on Ghouta and several other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of Damascus in 2013. The attacks were pinned on the Syrian leadership, who in turn agreed to get rid of all chemical weapons stockpiles under a UN-brokered deal amid an imminent threat of US intervention.

Addressing parliamentarians on Thursday, Erdem showed a copy of the criminal case number 2013/120 that was opened by the General Prosecutor's Office in the city of Adana in southern Turkey.
The investigation revealed that a number of Turkish citizens took part in negotiations with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) representatives on the supply of sarin gas. Pointing to evidence cited in the criminal case, he said that wiretapped phone conversations proved that an Al-Qaeda militant, Hayyam Kasap, acquired sarin.

“These are all detected. There are phone recordings of this shipment like ‘don't worry about the border, we’ll take care of it' and we also see the bureaucracy is being used,” continued Erdem.
Based on the gathered evidence Adana authorities conducted raids and arrested 13 suspects in the case. But a week later, inexplicably, the case was closed and all the suspects immediately crossed the Turkish-Syrian border, Erdem said.

Read More Here

Poison Gas Attack Reported in Central Syria

Syrian govt and opposition accuse each other of ‘deadly chlorine attack’

Published time: April 13, 2014 03:35
Edited time: April 13, 2014 11:27

Still from YouTube video/Kafrzita

Syrian state channels say that Nusra Front radicals are behind a chemical attack that has killed two and injured more than 100 people in a village in central Syria, on Friday. The opposition insists the injuries were caused by government's bombardment.
State-run Syrian television blamed members of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front for using chlorine gas in an attack on Syrian village that killed at least two people. It did not say how it confirmed chlorine was used. According to the report the Islamist group had planned two more chemical strikes on civilian targets.
Earlier on Saturday, videos showing a field hospital in Kfar Zeita – about 200 km north of Damascus and on the frontline of intense fighting – were uploaded by opposition activists. The pictures showed obviously weakened civilians, including small children, breathing through oxygen masks, as medical personnel attended to them.

Read More Here

.....

VOA News

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 citizen journalism file image shows a member of UN investigation team taking samples of sands near a part of a missile that is likely to contain chemicals, according to activists, in Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria.

April 12, 2014

The Syrian government, rebel forces and a rights group say poison gas has injured several people in a central village. The government and rebels are blaming each other for the incident.
The Syrian National Coalition and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that government air raids resulted in dozens of injuries and a gas release on Friday in the village of Kfar Zeita.
State-run Syrian television on Saturday blamed members of the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front for using chlorine gas at Kfar Zeita, which it says killed two people.

Read More Here

..........

SFGate

Poison gas claims complicate Syrian civil war

By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press

Updated 2:06 am, Sunday, April 13, 2014

• 
  In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video, provided by Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows a child crying as he sits on a bed with others, in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village on Friday, injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. Photo: Shams News Network, AP

BEIRUT (AP) — Both sides in Syria's bloody civil war said Saturday that a rural village fell victim to a poison gas attack, an assault that reportedly injured scores of people amid an ongoing international effort to rid the country of chemical weapons.
What exactly happened Friday in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, remains unclear and likely won't be known for some time. It took United Nations weapons inspectors months to say it was likely some chemical weapons attacks happened last year, including an August attack that killed hundreds and nearly sparked Western airstrikes against President Bashar Assad's forces.
But online videos posted by rebel activists from Kfar Zeita echoed earlier images that sparked a world outcry, showing pale-faced men, women and children gasping for breath at a field hospital. They suggest an affliction by some kind of poison — and yet another clouded incident where both sides blame each other in a conflict that activists say has killed more than 150,000 people with no end in sight.
The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack hurt dozens of people, though it did not identify the gas used.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that relies on a network of on-the-ground volunteers, said the gas attack happened during air raids that left heavy smoke over the area. It reported that people suffered from suffocation and breathing problems after the attack, but gave no further details.
State-run Syrian television blamed members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front rebel group for the attack, saying they used chlorine gas to kill two people and injure more than 100. It did not say how it confirmed chlorine was used.
Chlorine, one of the most commonly manufactured chemicals in the U.S., is used to purify drinking water. But as a gas, it can be deadly, with the German army using it in warfare in World War I. The Geneva Protocol of 1925, which Syria signed, banned its use in battle.
The TV report also claimed the Nusra Front is preparing for another chemical attack against the Wadi Deif area in the northern province of Idlib, as well as another area in Hama. The government station did not explain how it knew the Nusra Front's plans.
Activists in the village could not be reached Saturday.

Read More Here
.....

Related articles

• Syria rebels, government confirm poison gas attack
• Reports of Poison Gas Attack in Central Syria
• Syria rebels, government confirm poison gas attack
• Syria rebels, government report poison gas attack
• Syria: poison gas attack confirmed by government and rebels
• Syria opposition claims has evidence of chlorine gas attack
• Damascus gas attack: Opposition claims evidence of government chlorine gas attack
• Dozens Wounded in Poison Gas Attack in Syria

Hypocrisy at it's finest : Four Takeaways from Obama's Speech on Syria And why has no one mentioned the gas used in the attack on the Davidian compound in Waco Texas?

Four Takeaways from Obama's Speech on Syria

ReasonTV

 

Published on Sep 10, 2013

 

On September 10, 2013, President Obama addressed the nation to explain why he favors a U.S. military strike in Syria. Reason TV's Nick Gillespie offered four takeaways from Obama's speech. Approximately 1.30. Shot and edited by Jim Epstein with help from Anthony Fisher.

***********************************************************

President Obama Address To The Nation On Syria! - FULL SPEECH!! - 9/10/2013

Published on Sep 10, 2013

 

September 10, 2013 - Obama Syria Speech Address - President Obama delivered a speech to the American people on Tuesday night on Syria outlining the U.S. response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians. Obama's speech comes after news that the Syria has agreed to surrender its chemical weapons stockpiles to international control for eventual destruction, which Obama has indicated could avert a U.S. strike.

**************************************************************************

 

Tear-Gas Type Used at Waco Reported in '95

By DAVID JOHNSTON and NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: September 14, 1999

 

Internal F.B.I. documents disclosed today by a Democratic lawmaker show that information about the use of combustible tear-gas canisters at the 1993 Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Tex., has sat in the Justice Department's files for years and was even sent to Congress no later than 1995.
The documents cast new light on when different parts of the Government first had information about the use of the tear gas cannisters and may alter the dynamics of the renewed outcry over events surrounding the Federal Bureau of Investigation tear-gas attack at the Branch Davidian compound, which burned to the ground on April 19, 1993.
The documents show that even though the Justice Department sent United States marshals to the F.B.I.'s headquarters two weeks ago to seize infrared videotapes that contained references to the use of the tear gas rounds, the department had for years possessed F.B.I. records in its own files that showed such devices were used at the cult's compound. The seizure was ordered by Attorney General Janet Reno, who was angry because she had maintained for six years that the F.B.I. had done nothing that could have caused the fire.
In addition, the documents provide evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has been accused by some in Congress, the Clinton Administration and the public of misleading the Justice Department about the issue, did provide information about the use of the rounds to Ms. Reno's subordinates on several occasions. Ms. Reno has said she did not see any documents on the subject until two weeks ago.
Even so, there is no indication in the documents made public today that F.B.I. officials clearly explained to civilian counterparts at the Justice Department the implications of using the rounds. While F.B.I. officials have denied any role in starting the fire, they never said publicly that they had used the rounds until last month, when they said that a ''very limited number'' of such canisters had been fired at a concrete bunker hours before a deadly fire swept through another structure on the compound. Investigators later found the bodies of about 80 people, among them a number of children.

Read More Here

*********************************************************

AP New Archive

Chemist Says Gas May Have Suffocated Children at Waco

DAVID MORRIS , Associated Press

 

Jul. 26, 1995 7:51 PM ET

 

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The government's use of tear gas at Waco was sharply debated Wednesday, with one chemist suggesting the gas attack may have killed children inside the Branch Davidian compound and another scientist concluding it did no harm.

In written testimony submitted to two congressional subcommittees investigating the events at Waco, George F. Uhlig, a professor of chemistry at the College of Eastern Utah, said a chemical used to carry the gas into the compound ``would have suffocated the children early on.''

He also wrote that a poorly ventilated area of the house ``could have been turned into an area similar to one of the gas chambers used by the Nazis at Auschwitz.''

Under questioning by Republicans who arranged his testimony, however, Uhlig said there was a 60 percent chance that the chemical used with the gas ``could'' have killed children.

The Justice Department immediately attacked Uhlig's findings and a witness called by Democrats said he and his partner found no evidence that the gas caused any harm.

Questioning of the scientists marked one of the sharpest disputes in the six days of hearings so far.

Earlier in the day, a federal agent tearfully testified that he has no doubt the Davidians shot first when officers tried to serve warrants at the compound on Feb. 28, 1993. The agent, Jim Cavanaugh of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, also told of the difficulty in negotiating with a man ``who thought he was God.''

The siege ended 51 days after the shootout, after the FBI filled the compound with tear gas. A fire, which the government contends was started by Koresh and his followers, swept the compound.

Koresh and 80 of his followers died in what investigators called a mass suicide. Critics, including Uhlig, say the government was responsible for the deaths.

In an interview, Richard Scruggs, an assistant to Attorney General Janet Reno, said the Justice Department has found no evidence that the gas contributed to the deaths.

``If it had an effect, we would be very concerned about it and we would have been the first to say'' there was a problem, Scruggs said.

Uhlig admitted he was not an expert on chemical warfare agents. The Democrats' witness, David Upshall, said he helped research the gas after it was first used in Northern Ireland.

Upshall concluded that while the deaths at Waco saddened him, he believed ``that the (tear) gas played no direct part in these deaths.''

FBI officials said they recommended using gas to try to end the siege because they did not believe David Koresh was on the verge of surrendering, as the sect leader's lawyer contended on Tuesday.

Read More Here

 

*********************************************************
FBI Reverses Its Stand on Waco
By Richard Leiby
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 26, 1999;

Page A1

The FBI yesterday reversed a six-year-old position that it never used munitions capable of sparking the blaze that ended a standoff with the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Tex., and left 76 people dead. The acknowledgment that FBI agents fired "a very limited number" of potentially incendiary tear gas cartridges on the final day of the 51-day siege contradicts congressional testimony from high-ranking Justice Department officials, such as Attorney General Janet Reno, who said that the tear gas used against the Davidians "could not have caused a fire."
An FBI spokesman, Paul Bresson, said yesterday that none of its munitions started the fire on April 19, 1993, and noted that they were used hours before the inferno that consumed the Davidians' compound. FBI officials said they still believe that Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his followers deliberately torched the compound but expressed regret if their answers to Congress ultimately may prove to be inaccurate.
Reno and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh have ordered "a full review of the facts and circumstances" surrounding the use of military gas canisters on that day, according to an FBI statement.
The use of at least two military 40mm cartridges was confirmed by a former senior FBI official, Danny O. Coulson, whose comments were first reported this week in the Dallas Morning News.
"I only found out a week ago that these rounds were fired," Coulson, a deputy assistant FBI director during the Waco siege, said in an interview yesterday. "This is the truth and this is what happened. It's important for the American people to know."
Coulson said the pyrotechnic gas rounds were not linked to the fire, which broke out shortly after noon. The 40mm munitions were fired "no later than 8 a.m.," he estimated. News videos from the time show that the tear gas grenades landed near a storm shelter and emitted smoke but did not ignite any part of the main building.
Congressional investigators, as well as attorneys representing the families of dead Davidians, questioned the FBI's credibility after learning of Coulson's remarks. At hearings in 1993, and again in 1995, officials stressed that all forms of tear gas used against the sect were not incendiary. Reno testified in 1993 that she "wanted and received assurances that the gas and its means of use were not pyrotechnic."
Robert Charles, who as chief counsel for a House Government Reform and Oversight subcommittee wrote the final report on the 1995 Waco hearings, said that the new information would have changed how Congress probed the incident.
"It's just a shock to hear from one of the key players that this fact -- which was obviously material to what we were investigating -- was not volunteered, or was deliberately withheld," Charles said.
Michael Caddell, a Houston attorney for the estates and family members of Branch Davidians who died in the siege, said the FBI's acknowledgment proves "what we've been saying along: that the government intentionally used fire-starting devices on that final day."
"The conspiracy of silence is beginning to crumble," Caddell said. "The government lied about this. What else have they lied about?"



Read More Here


*********************************************************

LewRockwell.com

Government Killing of Civilians by Gas

By Mike Holmes

August 31, 2013

One point that needs to be made, but rarely if ever mentioned, is that in the supposed rationale for US attack on Syria to avenge/prevent claimed civilian deaths by government gas attacks, the US government itself has used similar weapons openly as recently as the FBI/ATF attack on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco Texas in the spring of 1993.
76 men, women and children died in this senseless military style assault which used highly lethal military CS gas as a primary weapon. CS is not a nerve agent and it doesn’t in normal concentrations cause immediate death. But it is highly flammable, persistent and designed to incapacitate targets by causing massive biological reactions including inability to breathe, massive tearing in the eyes, nose bleeds, etc.
The Davidians were totally surrounded, posed no threat to others, and responded with weapons fire only after the ATF/FBI attacked with military style firearms. After the initial government assault was repelled, and after a long standoff, an impatient President Clinton and his Attorney General Janet Reno ordered an all-out military assault on the compound, despite the fact that the only legal justification was a single warrant for David Koresh on unproven charges. The presence of innocent group members was ignored, nor was there any planning for medical aid or fire suppression.
The rest is history. Special military tanks were used to puncture compound walls and insert large quantities of CS gas. CS gas grenades were used from military stores along with 2 metal CS pyrotechnic M651E1 shells. Other pyrotechnic devices and flammable rounds were also fired into the buildings despite known dangers of CS gas ignition and chemical changes to the CS in fires making it even more deadly.
Wikipedia has more details. The video “Rules of Engagement” makes it clear that this was a deliberate effort to kill those inside.
In the run up to the Iraq invasion and now with Syria, United States officials loudly wailed about these regimes “killing civilians” with poison gas. Despite lack of hard evidence for such use in these countries, there is no doubt that President Clinton and Reno approved this exact same tactic.
Unlike the Middle Eastern scenarios, no civil war or mass terrorist action was occurring in Waco. There were no enemy forces attacking regime outposts and military targets. Just religious dissenters who followed an unstable cult leader, who lived privately on a remote farm bothering no one.

Read More Here

*********************************************************

Related articles

• Obama Syria Speech: Politicians React To President's Address
• Twitter reactions to President Obama's Syria speech
• Obama in speech: Syria gassing citizens a step too far and 'a danger to our security'
• Obama Speech On Syria: Situation Changed When Assad Gassed Citizens (VIDEO)
• Obama Speech Still Pushes Idea of Syria War
• President Obama's Syria speech and reaction
• Obama, in speech on Syria, says America can't 'look the other way'
• Transcript: Obama's Primetime Speech on Syria
• Graham: Obama was 'compelling'
• Douglas J. Hagmann ~ Syria Will Be The Waco Of The Middle

Israeli Minister Says Syria Used Chemical Weapons

 

Israeli Minister Says Syria Used Chemical Weapons
© REUTERS/ Bassam Khabieh

JERUSALEM, August 22, (The Associated Press) — A senior Israeli official says chemical weapons were used in the attack in Syria that left at least 100 people dead in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
Yuval Steinitz, the minister for intelligence and strategic affairs, says Israel's assessment is based on "intelligence estimates." He did not elaborate.
Steinitz told Israel Radio on Thursday that the attack the previous day was not the first time such agents were used.


Read More Here

Related articles

• Predictable: Israeli Minister Says Syria Used Chemical Weapons
• Israeli minister says Syria used chemical weapons
• Israeli Minister Says Syria Used Chemical Weapons
• Israeli minister says Syria used chemical weapons
• Israeli minister says Syria used chemical weapons
• Israeli Minister Says Syria Used Chemical Weapons - ABC News