(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - An AFP cameraman filmed the team of arms experts as they set off from the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus in a convoy of six UN-marked jeeps, a day after their work was suspended over safety concerns.
“The inspectors braved sniper fire when they initially tried to enter Eastern Ghouta on Monday, with bullets hitting their tires and the front window of the lead vehicle,” the United Nations said. Later that day, they were able to enter Moadamiyet al-Sham Southwest of Damascus to collect evidence of the other main area allegedly hit by chemical weapons on August 21.
But they were unable to return to Eastern Ghouta as planned on Tuesday because their safety could not be guaranteed.
The Syrian government complains that the foreign-backed terrorists have targeted people by such weapons while the western media and officials claim that the Syrian government has used them against its own people.
The Damascus government allowed the UN inspection team to investigate the alleged chemical weapons use in Damascus countryside on August 22.
The agreement came during a meeting between Syria's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem and the UN High Representative for Disarmament, Angela Kane, earlier this morning.
Mualem expressed Syria's readiness for cooperating with the UN investigators to expose the false allegations of the rebel groups accusing the Syrian forces of using chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta.
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