U.K. Says Assad Regime Behind Syria Chemical Attack

The U.K. accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government of carrying out an attack using chemical weapons that opposition groups say killed 1,300 people, as calls grew for United Nations inspectors to be given access to the site near Damascus.

“Some people in the world would like to say this is some kind of conspiracy brought about by the opposition in Syria,” Foreign Secretary William Hague said in televised comments in London today. “I think the chances of that are vanishingly small, and so we do believe that this is a chemical attack by the Assad regime on a large scale.”