By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 3 --
Syria was
represented
Tuesday when
UN High
Representative
for
Disarmament
Angela Kane
met with UN
member states
who requested
investigation
of the use of
chemical
weapons in and
around Ghouta
on August 21,
2013.
The
meeting was
held in a
nearly empty
UN North Lawn
Building. When
it ended, one
Permanent
Representative
associated
with the ACT
grouping to
reform the
Security
Council told
Inner City
Press, in the
spirit of
transparency,
that Kane's
presentation
had been
procedural,
and that the
UN's report
when finished
will go to all
193 member
states.
When
Kane and her
colleague came
out, they
declined to
speak with the
press. Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Ja'afari,
however, was
another
matter. He
spoke for more
than ten
minutes.
(Inner City
Press filmed
it and put it
on its YouTube
channel
immediately
afterward,
here.)
Also embedded
below.
Ja'afari
cited
an article
from Jordan
that the
chemical
weapons used
in Ghouta were
given by
Saudis to the
rebels, who
didn't know
how to use
them because
they are
"amateurs...
not real
fighters."
Citing
Iraq in 1991,
Ja'afari said
the US if it
bombs will
again kill
children. He
asked where
the Barack
Obama who gave
the speech in
Cairo has
gone.
Ja'afari
said
that back in
December 2012
Syria warned
that the
rebels might
get and use
chemical
weapons, then
raised just
this about
Khan al Asal
in March. He
said the
rebels went
and killed 300
witnesses
there, and
asked what
happened to
the footage of
Russian state
TV journalist
Anastasia
Popova (about
whom Inner
City Press and
written and
asked Angela
Kane and her
colleague.)
While
Ja'afari
spoke, the US
debate in the
Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee was
going on.
(Inner City
Press watched
from the
impromptu
stakeout in
front of UN
North Lawn
conference
room 6.)
Senator Jim
Risch,
R-Idaho, said
that
"thousands"
were killed in
Ghouta.
Senator
Menendez
said that the
"preponderance
of evidence"
shows Syria's
government did
it. Is that
the standard,
and not
"reasonable
doubt"? Watch
this site.
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