双语新闻：美国：叙利亚境内可能发生化武袭击 US Investigating Possible Chemical Attack in Syria

美国官员说，有迹象表明叙利亚反对派控制的一个地区本月曾发生化学毒气袭击。

白宫发言人卡尼星期一说，据称叙利亚西部卡弗尔吉塔村遇袭时出现了一种工业化学制剂，可能是氯气。

禁止化学武器组织正与联合国协作，努力清除叙利亚宣称拥有的化学武器。该组织本星期表示，叙利亚80%的化武已经移到境外或予以销毁。

美国国务院发言人莎琪星期一说，氯气没有列在叙利亚去年宣称拥有的化武清单上，当时叙利亚当局迫于国际社会的压力，同意销毁化武。

美国及其盟国说，阿萨德的军队去年使用了沙林毒气，造成数百平民死亡。叙利亚政府说，使用沙林毒气的是反政府武装。

U.S. officials say they have indications that toxic chemicals were used in a rebel area of Syria this month.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that the alleged attack in the western village of Kafr Zita involved an industrial chemical that was probably chlorine.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is working with the United Nations to rid Syria of its declared stockpile of such weapons. The OPCW said this week that 80 % of those chemicals have been removed from the country or destroyed.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday that chlorine was not on the list of chemicals that Syria declared last year when it agreed to destroy the arms under international pressure.

Washington and its allies say Mr. Assad's forces unleashed sarin gas last year, killing hundreds of civilians. The Syrian government said it was the opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons.