Obama skeptical of Assad claim on chemical weapons

March 21, 2013 03:52

President Barack Obama said today that the United States is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria, but he's "deeply skeptical" of claims by Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime that rebel forces were behind such an attack.

Both the Assad regime and Syrian rebels have accused each other of using chemical weapons in an attack on Tuesday. Obama said anyone familiar with the facts of the chemical weapons stockpile in Syria would question the government's claim that it was the rebels who carried out such an attack.

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