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| MSF: Syrian family showed signs of chemical exposure |
| 2015-08-26 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday it had treated a Syrian family with symptoms of exposure to chemical agents from an area where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have been battling other rebels. Two adults, a three-year-old girl and a five-day-old baby girl were treated at an MSF-run hospital in Aleppo province, northern Syria, last Friday, the charity said in a statement. They arrived at MSF's hospital an hour after the attack, suffering from breathing difficulties, inflamed skin, red eyes and conjunctivitis. Within three hours they developed blisters and their breathing difficulties worsened, the statement said. MSF staff treated them and gave them oxygen before transferring them to another hospital for specialized treatment. The family came from the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, where ISIS recently launched a new offensive against other Syrian rebels. The town, 20 kilometers south of the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , had been under intense bombardment by mortars and artillery for a week, MSF said. "If it was a chemical attack, it is impossible for us to ascertain who was responsible," Pablo Marco, MSF's program manager in Syria, told Rooters. The family said a mortar shell hit their home last Friday evening, MSF said. After the kaboom, a yellow gas filled their living room. "MSF has no laboratory evidence to confirm the cause of these symptoms," Marco said in the statement. "However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the patients' clinical symptoms, the way these symptoms changed over time, and the patients' testimony about the circumstances of the poisoning all point to exposure to a chemical agent." ISIS used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said in July. A U.S. general said last Friday that fragments from mortars fired by ISIS holy warriors at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field analysis for sulfur mustard, a chemical weapons agent. |
| Posted by:Fred |