A
US senator has indicated that British intelligence services are
planning to stage a chemical attack on civilians in Syria to
implicate the government and its allies as they seek to liberate the
last remaining regions from the grip of militants.
Virginia
state Senator Richard Black said last week that Britain’s MI6 had
been working on a chemical attack in Syria for the past few weeks,
adding that the main aim of the plan was to blame the Syrian
government and military for targeting defenseless civilians.
“Around
four weeks ago, we knew that British intelligence was working towards
a chemical attack in order to blame the Syrian government, to hold
Syria responsible,” said Black in an interview with Al
Mayadeen, a news channel based in Beirut.
The
Republican senator, who was in Syria recently to meet with senior
government officials, reiterated his claims about fake chemical
attacks in Syria in an interview with The Washington Post,
saying Britain had no intention of carrying out such attacks itself,
but it was to direct militants, including members of the so-called
White Helmets, a group with alleged humanitarian mission, to launch
the attack.
“The
plan is to use the White Helmets who have always been involved in
these notorious deceptions, to portray an attack.” he said,
adding, “From what I can tell, they have been planning a fake
attack, not a genuine one, but one where they actually move people
out of a town and they have trained people to portray victims of a
gas attack.”
Black’s
remarks echoed similar concerns raised by the Syrian government and
its allies about the possibility of a chemical attack in the
northwestern province of Idlib, where the military is planning a
large-scale offensive against militants.
Home to
some 1.5 million militants and their families, Idlib is the last
remaining bastion of anti-government forces in Syria. Russia, a main
ally of the Syrian government in its fight against terror, has
repeatedly warned that militants and their supporters in the West
could use a fake chemical attack as a pretext to slow the government
offensive into Idlib.
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