Syrian Rebels Smuggling Evidence of Attack


Victim in Syria

Syrian activists said on Friday they are smuggling out body tissue samples from victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus, according to the Reuters news agency.

The activists said they were trying to get the samples to a team of United Nations inspectors staying in a hotel a few miles away.

“The UN team spoke with us and since then we prepared samples of hair, skin and blood and smuggled them back into Damascus with trusted couriers,” an activist, Abu Nidal, told the news agency.

The opposition accuses President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces of firing rockets loaded with poison gas before dawn on Wednesday.

The opposition said the attack killed more than 1,000 civilians.

Chemical weapons experts say every hour counts and that the longer it takes, the more likely evidence can be covered up or tampered with.

Only a few activists said they were confident that they had a contact who would be able to hand their samples to the UN inspectors.

Most activists in the area who spoke to Reuters said they had also prepared samples to smuggle into the capital, but had little to zero contact with the UN experts and were unable to find a way to access the monitors inside their hotel.

via Syrian Rebels Smuggling Evidence of Attack – Middle East – News – Israel National News.



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