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Assad shifts chemical weapons into fortified military bases, Opposition says

A senior Coalition member disclosed Assad had moved 3 chemical shipments into fortified military bases.

Mr. Khaled Saleh, Coalition press officer told the reporters after the weekly meeting of the opposition that Coalition has obtained precious information regarding the regime Chemical arsenal assured transferring chemical weapons to three military bases.

 The first shipment has delivered to Dumeir military air base, 46 km east Damascus, very close to Abo al-Shamat chemical depot, the target that already on the US strike agenda. The second was to Dara'a in town, (military base175), the third still   unknown, according to the press officer.

Saleh said that more evidences of the Assad forces'  use of Sarin gas came out with desertion of Head of the forensic Doctors in Aleppo.

''Dr. Abd Altawab Shahroor, was supposed to attend the coalition meeting but he was absent for security purposes.''  

The spokeswoman of the National Coalition confirmed that Dr. Shahroor would later provide evidence confirm that Bashar al-Assad and his regime involved in using chemical weapons in Khan al-Asal area near Aleppo in March, in which 24 civilians were killed, and regime accused the rebels and opposition of using it.

Another activist confirmed that Dr. Shahroor has enough documents to prove the occurrence of a chemical weapons attack besides witnesses and statements from police forces incompatible with the system's version of the attack on Khan al-Asal in which t accused the opposition.

The United Nations planned to inspect chemical attack on Khan al-Asal, but the team focused eventually on the chemical attack on al-Ghouta using sarin gas and killed nearly 1500 civilians.

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