Britain giving Syrian rebels protection against chemical weapons
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Britain is to give Syrian rebels equipment to protect themselves against chemical and biological weapons as "a matter of special urgency", saying it would allow them to potentially survive a sarin gas attack. In a statement to parliament on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Britain would deliver 5,000 escape hoods, nerve-agent pre-treatment tablets and chemical weapons detector paper to the Syrian National Coalition.
"There is evidence of attacks using chemical weapons in Syria - including sarin," Hague said. "We believe that the use of chemical weapons is sanctioned and ordered by the Assad regime." (Reuters)
