By Dominic Evans and Khaled Yacoub Oweis BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people – by one report as many as 1,300 – on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical weapons attack in decades. Western and regional countries called for U.N. chemical weapons investigators – who arrived in Damascus just three days ago – to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/activists-more-200-killed-gas-attack-near-damascus-103551876.html

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