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BY ADAM ENTOUS IN RIYADH, JOSHUA MITNICK IN TEL AVIV AND STEPHEN FIDLER IN BRUSSELS
The Syrian army has used lethal chemical weapons during the country’s civil war, Israel’s top military intelligence analyst said Tuesday, heightening pressure on the White House to intervene more directly against strongman Bashar-al Assad.
“According to our professional assessment, the regime has used deadly chemical weapons against armed rebels on a number of occasions in the past few months,” said Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, who heads the research division of Israel’s intelligence branch.
Israel’s first public allegation of Syrian chemical-weapons use followed disclosures last week that Britain and France believe they have credible evidence that Syria has used chemical weapons …
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