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West planning to stage chemical attack in Idlib

Accuses Russia, warns US against 'reckless steps'

Agencies
*Moscow: UK secret service actively involved in the plot Says chemical attack will be presented as a pretext to bomb govt forces
Russia yesterday said Syrian rebels are preparing a chemical attack in Idlib province which will be blamed on Damascus and used as a pretext for Western powers to hit government targets in the war-tom country.
Moscow's accusation comes after US President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton this week said Washington will respond "very strongly" if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons in an offensive to retake Idlib, one of the last rebel held provinces in the country.
Reacting to comments by Bolton, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said: "We warn the Americans and their allies against taking new reckless steps in Syria."
"We are hearing ultimatums from Washington ... and it does not affect our determination to continue our policy for the total elimination of
terrorist epicentres in Syria and the return of this country to a normal li fe,' RIA quoted Ryabkov as saying.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement that the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is 'preparing
another provocation of the 'use of chemical weapons' by Syrian government forces against the peaceful population of the Idlib province."
He said the group delivered 'eight chlorine tanks" to Jisr al-Shughur town in order to "stage" the attack
and that these were later taken to a village eight kilometres away.
The statement also said a group of militants "trained in handling poisonous substances under the supervision of specialists from the private British military company 'Oliva'" arrived in the town a day earlier.
"The militants have the task of simulating the rescue of the victims of the chemical weapons attack dressed in the clothes of the famous 'White Helmets'," it said.
Konashenkov accused British special services of being "actively involved” in the "provocation” which will "serve as another reason for the US, the UK and France to hit Syrian government targets with air strikes. *
In April, the US, France and Britain launched joint missile strikes on Syrian targets in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma that left scores dead.