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    ALEPPO MASSACRE AIMED AT ERASING EVIDENCE IMPLICATING WEST: ANALYSIS

    Syrian medical workers and relatives inspect the bodies of victims of
    the July massacre in the town of Khan al-Assal, Aleppo Governorate.

    (File photo)

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/01/316700/truth-massacred-in-aleppo-to-spare-west/
    Thu Aug 1, 2013 3:12PM GMT

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    goes on in Syria A political expert says the recent massacre in the
    Syrian town of Khan al-Assal was a Western-backed measure to cover
    up the militants' use of chemical weapons there back in March, Press
    TV reports.

    In an article published on Press TV's website on Thursday, Finian
    Cunningham said the evidence on the ground in Khan al-Assal had to be
    erased to prevent "grave criminal implications for Western governments
    and their covert involvement in Syria's 30-month-old conflict."

    Cunningham cited reports revealing that the Western-backed
    al-Qaeda-linked militants had been found in possession of the nerve
    agent sarin on Turkish soil. He also quoted a June Washington Post
    report on a US military program in Jordan aimed at training the
    Jordanian military in the handling of chemical weapons.

    Cunningham said the reports about the militants' activities in
    southern Turkey and Jordan in cooperation with the CIA and British
    MI6 indicate that "chemical weapons are part of the arsenal that the
    Western governments and their regional allies have been furnishing
    their proxy paramilitaries with inside Syria."

    He pointed to a Russian investigation that found Western-backed
    militants were behind the March chemical attack, which prompted the
    UN investigators to meet with Syrian authorities, where they promised
    a forthcoming in-depth investigation.

    Cunningham explained that such an investigation would have involved
    collecting samples and interviewing witnesses in Khan al-Assal about
    what happened during the attack on March 19, and would have most likely
    agreed with the Russian study, which found anti-Syria militants behind
    the mass murder.

    This, the expert said, confirms that Western-sponsored terror groups
    have been using these weapons with the full or tacit knowledge of
    Western governments and their military agencies.

    "Given this potentially damning picture that was forming around Khan
    al-Assal, it is not implausible that Western-backed death squads
    were dispatched on the town last weekend in a desperate attempt
    to exterminate any remaining witnesses to the first massacre with
    chemical weapons," he proposed.

    "For the Western sponsors of genocide in Syria, the stakes could not
    have been higher on that particular truth coming out. That is why
    the truth had to be massacred," Cunningham concluded.

    In late July, armed terrorist groups killed at least 123 people,
    mostly civilians but also including military personnel, during an
    attack on Khan al-Assal, in Aleppo Governorate. They mutilated the
    corpses, throwing them into a crater outside town and incinerated
    the bodies of a number of other victims.

    Up to 30 people were killed and some 100 others were also seriously
    injured on March 19, when the town was hit by a chemical attack that
    involved the deadly nerve agent, sarin.

    The massacre came as Western powers and their regional allies -
    including the Israeli regime, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - continue
    to support militant groups, including al-Qaeda-linked terrorists,
    in Syria.

    The Arab country has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. The
    UN says more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions of
    others displaced in the violence.

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