Dr. Shaaban: al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were responsible for a deadly chemical attack in the country last month

DAMASCUS, (ST)_ Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, the Presidential political and media Advisor rejected the Western allegations accusing the Syrian government forces of being responsible for the August 21 attack on the outskirts of Damascus.

The Syrian official said al-Qaeda was behind the attack just as it was responsible for “killing Syrian people, raping women, [and] kidnapping Christian clerics.”

“The same people who were on the London Tube and who killed British people, the same people who on 9/11 in New York killed American people, they are the same people in Mali, the same people in Libya, the same people in Iraq, the same people in Syria,” Press TV quoted Dr. Shaaban as telling Sky news TV.

She called on the United States and its allies, who have been blatantly issuing threats of war against Syria, to wait for the results of a report by the team of United Nations chemical weapons experts, expected to be completed later this month.

“They are using the same lies, the same fabrications, the same claims, in order to target our country and our people,” Shaaban said, comparing the chemical weapons accusations against Syria to those used to justify the Iraq war, which ultimately proved false.

Dr, Shaaban demanded that Washington provide the world with evidence backing its accusation against the Syrian government.

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