The United States has concluded Syria carried out chemical weapons attacks against its people, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, a claim that comes amid a looming diplomatic showdown over whether to strike against Bashar al-Assad?s military.
Obama?s declaration to ?PBS NewsHour? came at the end of a day that saw Russia and China walk out of a U.N. Security Council meeting as word surfaced Britain planned to pursue a resolution to authorize the use of force against Syria, even as United Nations weapons inspectors were in Syria assessing whether chemical weapons have been used.
?We do not believe that, given the delivery systems, using rockets, that the opposition could have carried out these attacks. We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out,? Obama told ?NewsHour.?
?And if that?s so, then there need to be international consequences,? the president added.
Obama said that he has ?not made a decision? about whether to conduct a military strike in Syria. (CNN)
