The enemy within

FOLLOWING the gas attack in a rebel-held part of Syria, it’s important to remember history and not jump to conclusions as BoJo, our Foreign Minister, has done.

On February 5, 1994, during the civil war in Yugoslavia, a mortar bomb was fired into the main square of Sarajevo. Muslim forces defending the city immediately blamed the Serbs and were supported at first by the UK and the U.S.

An investigation by UN experts concluded, however, that the bomb had been fired from a Bosnian Army position. It was further concluded that the Muslims had fired on their own people to provoke Nato to come in and fight on their side.

When this information reached the UN in New York, everything was done to clamp down on the number of people who saw it to prevent the chance of a Press leak.

The ISIS fighters in Syria will do anything to demonise the Assad regime, including tactics similar to those used in Sarajevo. It appears that history does repeat itself.

In 2014, the UN took possession of all the Syrian government’s stock of chemical weapons that were in their territory, but was unable to search parts of the country held by rebels.

It’s known that rebels captured some stocks of chemical weapons, and they are clever enough to use them, even against their own people, if it will gain them an advantage.

JOHN WARREN, Wolverhampton.