Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Syria: – lanacion.com (Argentina) three Spanish journalists disappear

MADRID (EFE). Three Spanish journalists are missing in Syria for almost ten days ago, after entering the country from southern Turkey and reach the city of Aleppo, where they were lost track, as revealed by the press in Spain.

Angel Sastre, José Manuel Lopez and Antonio Pampliega work as freelance reporters in conflict zones, especially in the Middle East, and disappeared on July 12.

For its part Sastre lives in Buenos Aires, from where it is dedicated to cover all of Latin America, but was exceptionally portraying the conflict in Syria. After the news of the disappearance, the families of the journalists acknowledged that “works in its search and location” but does not yet have confirmation of his whereabouts. They also called for “patience, respect” and “the greatest possible discretion as necessary in these times.”

While supplies Spanish Foreign Ministry said they were “aware of the situation” and “working on it” . In this case the number of Spanish journalists missing or abducted in Syria reached seven in the last two years. The country became in 2013 the most dangerous for reporters, after half of the 87 kidnappings in the world happen there.

Chemical weapons

According to the organizations Conflict Armament Research and Sahan Research, based in Britain, Islamic State (EI) he began using chemical weapons in Hasakah, Syria and Mosul, Iraq. “Dirty” bombs launched against Kurdish militants and civilians bottling projectiles are manufactured poisons .

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