www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
World
Home / World / Middle East

Syrian govt using chemical weapons: US

Xinhua | Updated: 2013-06-14 10:05

WASHINGTON - White House concluded in a statement Thursday that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against rebels, a major move that signals deeper US involvement in the Syrian conflict.

"Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year," said White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes in the statement.

"The intelligence community estimates that 100 to 150 people have died from detected chemical weapons attacks in Syria to date; however, casualty data is likely incomplete," he said.

Rhodes added that no "credible" evidence indicated that the Syrian rebels had used chemical weapons.

US President Barack Obama said evidence has pointed to the use of chemical weapons inside of Syria. He had called time and again the use of or failure to secure chemical weapons by the Syrian government a "red line" or "game changer" in his handling of the conflict in the Middle East country. But Obama had also made it clear that he needed more specific information about what had exactly happened there.

In the statement, Rhodes said that Washington is working with its allies to present a "credible, evidentiary" case to share with the international community.

"The president has said that the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus, and it has," he noted.

The Syrian government's actions have led to increased support by Washington to the Syrian opposition, said Rhodes, adding that the United States has other "legal, financial, diplomatic, and military responses" available.

"We are prepared for all contingencies, and we will make decisions on our own timeline," he said.

Rhodes stressed that any future US actions must serve its national interests and its objectives, which include achieving a negotiated political settlement, protecting the rights of all Syrians, securing unconventional and advanced conventional weapons, as well as countering terrorist activity.

The Obama administration, wary of the unpredictability of potential military involvement in Syria, is now under mounting pressures to take more decisive actions.

Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham welcomed the White House statement on Thursday, but stressed that "more decisive actions" were needed to end the bloodshed in Syria.

Even Democratic prominent figure such as former President Bill Clinton has weighed in. According to the news website Politico, Clinton offered a stinging critique of Obama's inaction in Syria in the closed-press event this week. Clinton argued that Obama's hesitance to get involved in the Syrian conflict could end up making him look like a "total fool."

In a conference call conducted almost simultaneously with the release of the statement, Rhodes told reporters that Obama has decided to provide military support to the Syrian rebels, without giving further details.

"The president has made a decision about providing more support to the opposition, that will involve providing direct support to the Supreme Military Council (SMC), that includes military support," he said. "This is going to be different in both scope and scale in terms of what we are providing to the SMC than what we have provided before."

Most Viewed in 24 Hours
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 一级片 mp4| 99久在线| 喷潮白浆直流在线播放 | 成人三级做爰在线观看男女 | 毛片免费在线播放 | 免费逼片 | 日韩在线视频不卡一区二区三区 | 6080伦理久久精品亚洲 | 美女网站在线 | 成人三级在线播放线观看 | 99re7在线精品免费视频 | 一级特黄性色生活片一区二区 | 国产视频手机在线 | 欧美成人免费高清网站 | 男人女人做刺激视频免费 | 久久er热视频在这里精品 | 男女午夜性爽快免费视频不卡 | 久久99爰这里有精品国产 | 日本亚洲成高清一区二区三区 | 久久精品免观看国产成人 | 99视频精品免视3 | 国产精选一区二区 | 王朝影院一区二区三区入口 | 成人网18免费网站在线 | 欧美一级毛片片aa视频 | 97国产在线视频公开免费 | 久久久久久久久久久福利观看 | 国产亚洲一级精品久久 | 欧美日韩一区二区三区久久 | 国产成人18黄网站在线观看网站 | 一级黄色香蕉视频 | 日本高清毛片视频在线看 | 久久亚洲国产高清 | se94se欧美 | 日韩精品一区二区三区乱码 | 亚洲国产精品区 | 草草久久97超级碰碰碰免费 | 91精品国产综合久久久久久 | 成人的天堂 | 国内成人精品视频 | 三级a黄|