UNITED NATIONS - Syria is "genuinely worried" that some countries might equip extremist groups with chemical weapons and then claim they were used by the Syrian government, the country's U.N. envoy said in a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council.
Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari also accused the US government of supporting "terrorists" in Syria and waging a campaign that claims Syria could use chemical weapons in the 20-month-old civil war that has killed at least 40,000.
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