From the BBC:
US Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week.
A number far higher than any other sources have claimed.
In his speech, SOS Kerry said:
We saw rows of dead lined up in burial shrouds, the white linen unstained by a single drop of blood.
Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from Assad’s gas and surrounded by parents and grandparents who had suffered the same fate.
Perhaps Mr. Kerry will provide the rest of us with that photo of “rows of dead lined up in burial shrouds” victims of an Assad regime chemical attack that he saw. Or perhaps he went with a photo that also made its way to being published by the BBC and tasked a staffer to count the bodies in it. No link to that BBC photo because they’ve taken it down. Just one of those “oops, sorry.”
But it can still be seen at The Telegraph. It’s not a 2013 photo but from 2003. Not Syria. Iraq.
What’s next? Kerry holding up a vial of deadly chemicals?
