By: Julian Lee
The Star Sunday, April 8, 2018 - Trump tweeted early Sunday morning, 'Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world.
'President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price...'
Syrian opposition activists and rescuers said on Sunday that a poison gas attack in Douma near the capital has killed at least 40 people.
The allegations have been denied by the Syrian government.
'I wouldn't take anything off the table,' White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Thomas Bossert said in an interview on ABC's 'This Week.'
'We are looking into the attack at this point,' he said, adding that the photos of the incident are 'horrible'.
The alleged attack occurred late Saturday amid a resumed offensive by Syrian government forces after the collapse of a truce with the Army of Islam rebel group.
First responders said they found families suffocated in their homes and shelters, with foam on their mouths.
The opposition-linked Syrian Civil Defense were able to document 42 fatalities but were impeded from searching further by strong odors that gave their rescuers difficulties breathing, said Siraj Mahmoud, a spokesman for the group, which is known as the White Helmets.
A joint statement by the Civil Defense and the Syrian American Medical Society, a relief organization, said more than 500 people, mostly women and children, were brought to medical centers with difficulty breathing, foaming at the mouth, and burning of the eyes.
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“President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Assad”
Trump
It said patients gave off a chlorine-like smell.
Some had blue skin, a sign of oxygen deprivation.
A year ago this weekend, Trump authorized the launch of Tomahawk missiles to hit an airfield in Syria, in response to a sarin attack on the village of Khan Sheikhun.
Trump also criticized his predecessor’s lack of action against the use of chemical weapons in Syria, writing: “If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In the Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!”
The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, denied any involvement in the alleged gas attack.
Trump referred to the Assad regime as baby killers
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Douma is in the suburbs of Damascus known as eastern Ghouta.
A chemical attack in eastern Ghouta in 2013 that was widely blamed on government forces killed hundreds of people, prompting the US to threaten military action before later backing down.
Syria denies ever using chemical weapons during the seven-year civil war, and says it eliminated its chemical arsenal under a 2013 agreement brokered by the US and Russia after the attack in eastern Ghouta.
State department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Saturday: “We continue to closely follow disturbing reports regarding alleged chemical weapons attack targeting a hospital in Douma, Syria. The Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable and any further attacks prevented immediately.”
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