WORLD_ SYRIA_ House witnesses describe use of chlorine gas in barrel bombs by Assad regime in Syria

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House witnesses describe use of chlorine gas in barrel bombs by Assad regime in Syria

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
The Washington Post News Service
June 18, 2015

WASHINGTON — A panel of witnesses recounted Wednesday for a House committee how Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons, one day after Secretary of State John Kerry said he was certain that Assad had used chlorine gas against his own people.

Mohamed Tennari, a medical director of an often-bombed field hospital in Syria’s Idlib province, recounted for the House Foreign Affairs Committee the first time he responded to a chlorine attack in March, learning that his friend’s family had been saturated with the gas before they died in his hospital.

‘‘One of the barrel bombs fell through a shaft in their home, filling the ventilation with chlorine as it broke open,’’ Tennari said. ‘‘Their basement became a makeshift gas chamber.’’

The congressional testimony adds to the evidence that Assad continues to use chemical weapons, even after agreeing in September 2013 to turn over a cache after the United States and other nations threatened retaliation in response to a sarin gas attack that reportedly killed more than 1,500 people in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. In April, Human Rights Watch released a report strongly suggesting that chlorine gas was used in six barrel bomb attacks in Idlib province in March.

Anne Sparrow, an assistant professor of global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told the House committee Wednesday that the regime’s use of chlorine gas is ‘‘emblematic of its war-crime strategy. . . . The Assad regime has transformed a principal element of public health into a tool of disease and terror.’’

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