Former German Ambassador: Kerry testing the case remembers Iraq

Authorship tests Syrian government of a nerve gas attack mentioned by the United States reminds the case of Iraq, said a former German ambassador to the UN. "There has been no evidence presented. Said there are only convincing evidence (...) But we do not know," he told the station Deutschland funk Gunther Pleuger, who led the German delegation to the United Nations between 2002 and 2006.

The U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, said Friday that Washington had clear evidence that the government of Bashar al Assad was behind the nerve gas attack on 21 August, which, according to their data, cost the lives of 1,429 people in outside Damascus. "Naturally this reminds Iraq, where they presented alleged evidence and none were true," he said Pleuger.

In 2003, the United States justified the decision to invade Iraq, arguing that Saddam Hussein was developing a program for weapons of mass destruction which provided "irrefutable evidence" that later proved false. Pleuger said the United States should await the results of the inspection of UN experts.

By contrast, the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, described as "plausible" Kerry's arguments. "They point clearly to the Assad regime.'re Plausible. Everyone should take it seriously," he told the Sunday "Welt am Sonntag".