{"id":37603,"date":"2013-05-30T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/turkey-finds-sarin-gas-in-homes-of-suspected-syrian-islamists-reports-2\/37603\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:26:11","slug":"turkey-finds-sarin-gas-in-homes-of-suspected-syrian-islamists-reports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/turkey-finds-sarin-gas-in-homes-of-suspected-syrian-islamists-reports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey finds sarin gas in homes of suspected Syrian Islamists \u2014 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Published time: May 30, 2013 16:56
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Turkish security forces found a 2kg cylinder with sarin gas after searching the homes of Syrian militants from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front who were previously detained, Turkish media reports. The gas was reportedly going to be used in a bomb.<\/p>\n

\n The sarin gas was found in the homes of suspected Syrian
\n Islamists detained in the southern provinces of Adana and Mersia
\n following a search by Turkish police on Wednesday, reports say.
\n The gas was allegedly going to be used to carry out an attack in
\n the southern Turkish city of Adana.\n<\/p>\n

\n On Monday, Turkish special anti-terror forces arrested 12
\n suspected members of the Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda affiliated
\n group which has been dubbed “the most aggressive and successful
\n arm\u201d of the Syrian rebels. The group was designated a terrorist
\n organization by the United States in December.\n<\/p>\n

\n Police also reportedly found a cache of weapons, documents and
\n digital data which will be reviewed by police.\n<\/p>\n

\n Following the searches, five of those detained were released
\n following medical examinations at the Forensic Medicine
\n Institution Adana. Seven suspects remain in custody. Turkish
\n authorities are yet to comment on the arrests.\n<\/p>\n

\n In a separate incident in Adana, police reportedly received
\n intelligence that an explosive-laden vehicle had entered the town
\n of Adana on Thursday, the Taraf daily reports.\n<\/p>\n

\n Ankara has attempted to bolster the Syrian opposition without
\n becoming embroiled in the Syrian civil war, a policy which
\n Damascus claims lead to the deadliest act of terrorism on Turkish
\n soil.\n<\/p>\n

\n On May 11, 51 people were killed and 140 injured after two car bombs<\/a> exploded in the Turkish town of
\n Reyhanl\u00c4\u00b1, located near the country\u2019s border with Syria.A dozen
\n Turkish nationals have been charged in the twin bombings, and
\n Ankara has accused Damascus<\/a> of helping the suspects carry out
\n the attack.\n<\/p>\n

\n “This incident was carried out by an organization which is in
\n close contact to pro-regime groups in Syria and I say this very
\n clearly, with the Syrian Mukhabarat [intelligence agency],”<\/i>
\n Interior Minister Muammer Guler said.\n<\/p>\n

\n Syria\u2019s Information Minister Omran Zoubi denied any link the
\n attack, saying his country “did not commit and would never commit
\n such an act because our values would not allow that”.Zoubi
\n further charged the Turkish government had facilitated the flow
\n of arms, explosives, funds and fighters across the country\u2019s
\n border into Syria, claiming that that Turkish Prime Minister
\n Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party bear direct responsibility
\n [for the attack].”\n<\/p>\n

\n Reports of chemical weapons use by both Damascus and the Syrian
\n opposition have surrounded the conflict in Syria for months.\n<\/p>\n

\n In March, the Syrian government invited the United Nations to
\n investigate possible chemical weapons use in the Khan al-Assal
\n area of rural Aleppo. Military experts and officials said a
\n chemical agent, most likely sarin, was used in the attack which
\n killed 26 people, including government forces.\n<\/p>\n

\n Damascus claimed Al-Qaeda linked fighters were behind the attack<\/a>, further alleging Turkey had a
\n hand in the incident.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe rocket came from a placed controlled by the terrorist and
\n which is located close to the Turkish territory. One can assume
\n that the weapon came from Turkey,\u201d<\/i> Zoabi said in an interview
\n with Interfax news agency.\n<\/p>\n

\n US President Barack Obama has warned<\/a> any confirmed use of chemical weapons by
\n Damascus would cross a “red line”<\/i> which would prompt
\n further action. Both Washington and London claimed there was
\n growing evidence that such chemical agents had been used.\n<\/p>\n

\n A day before the Reyhanl\u00c4\u00b1 bombing, Erdogan released a statement
\n claiming he had evidence the Syrian government had had used
\n chemical weapons, crossing the red line set by President
\n Obama.The accusation contradicted a statement made at the time by
\n a leading UN investigator.Carla Del Ponte, who heads\n<\/p>\n

\n The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria,
\n said there were \u201cconcrete suspicions but not yet
\n incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas\u201d<\/i> in Syria.\n<\/p>\n

\n “This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not
\n by the government authorities,”<\/i> Del Ponte continued.\n<\/p>\n

\n Exposure to large quantities of sarin gas, whose production and
\n stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of
\n 1993, causes convulsions, paralysis, loss of respiratory
\n functions and potentially death.\n<\/p>\n

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