24 August 2013 (12:47 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Shawwal 1434/02 Shahrivar 1391/18 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“An army unit is surrounding a sector of Jobar where terrorists used chemical weapons…..the army found barrels marked ’made in Saudi Arabia’  and gas masks.”-Syrian news media report

Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Al-Muallem, says the United Nations inspection team is welcome to inspect the recent gas attack in Damascus.

In the Damascus suburb of Jobar, Syrian Arab Army (SAA, government) troops have found a tunnel being used by U.S. backed insurgents for making massive amounts of chemical bombs.  The SAA says the discovery was made by troops who then suffered chemical inhalation, some are in critical condition.

The SAA also reported that there have been major battles between government forces and U.S. insurgents in that area for several days.  It’s possible that the latest gas attack was the result of government conventional artillery strikes hitting an insurgent chemical weapon making operation.