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Syria slams US chemical weapons claims as fabrications

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Syria has dismissed the United States’ allegations of use of chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants as mere “lies” and “fabrications.”

“The White House published a statement full of lies about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, based on fabricated information, through which it is trying to hold the Syrian government responsible for such use,” Syria’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

The statement also noted that the US decision to arm militants is a flagrant example of double-standard policy.

“The United States, in resorting to a shameful use of pretexts in order to allow President Obama’s decision to arm the Syrian opposition, shows that it has flagrant double standards in the way it deals with terrorism.”

Earlier in the day, a Syrian Foreign Ministry official said that the US decision to arm the foreign-backed insurgents “demonstrates… the direct involvement of the United States in the Syrian bloodbath.”

On June 13, US Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes claimed in a White House statement that the Syrian government “has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale” against the foreign-backed Takfiri militants “multiple times in the last year.”

Hawkish US Senator John McCain, who is a staunch supporter of arming the militants in Syria, said Washington should even think of plans other than sending weapons to the militants “to change the equation on the battleground.”

Syria strongly rejects such claims and says the militants have used chemical weapons on several occasions, including an attack in the region of Khan al-Assal in the northwestern province of Aleppo on March 19, where over two dozen people died.

The foreign-sponsored militancy, which turned the situation in Syria into turmoil more than two years ago, has been taking its toll on the lives of many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security personnel.

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