Before I went to bed last night, I saw tweets from the outskirts of Damascus that said that the Ghouta suburbs were receiving artillery fire. When I woke up, it was being reported that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons and killed hundreds. The BBC was the most aggressive in pushing this line, but they were self-aware enough to point out the following:
The latest incident throws up more questions than answers, the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen reports.
Many will ask why the government would want to use such weapons at a time when inspectors are in the country and the military has been doing well militarily in the area around Damascus, he says.
The U.N. inspectors have only just arrived and the government is supposed to have reacted by carrying out a massive chemical attack right in the Damascus metro area?
Everything is a hall of mirrors with this conflict in Syria.