No, this isn't the same convoy that was spotted some days ago. I see from the following report that the bad guys, now clearly aware that the earlier convoy was spotted, are trying subterfuges to shake off the observers.
I should add that the very last sentence in the report conflicts somewhat with a few of its earlier statements. This leads me to wonder whether these chemicals-transporting convoys are being helped by the Turkish military, or whether the military is trying to stop them. Maybe the tie-breaker is that the military is now trying to stop such convoys after being caught red-handed facilitating the previous shipment. But that's just a guess based on very limited information. The fog of war is getting thicker than pea soup.
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It went on to say that the chemicals would go through Ariha town under tight security measures of Tahrir al-Sham. The White Helmets were also called for help by Tahrir al-Sham in several regions of Idlib concurrent with the arrival of the chemicals in Jisr al-Shughour.
In a relevant development earlier this month, the White Helmets had sent chemicals for the Turkistani Islamic Party in Jisr al-Shughour in Northeastern Idlib.
Irregular movements by the White Helmets have been recently spotted in a large triangular region from the Turkish borderline to Jisr al-Shughour and the borders with Lattakia in West, the media outlet reported, adding that Tahrir al-Sham and White Helmets are preparing to launch a fake chemical attack in Idlib to later accuse the Damascus forces.
Media sources reported earlier this month that the Turkish army sent several trucks carrying chlorine to the Ankara-backed terrorists' stronghold in Idlib, adding that a number of commanders of militant groups left the region.
The Arabic-language website of Sputnik news agency quoted local sources in Idlib province as saying that a Turkish military convoy, consisting of tens of trucks, and accompanied by Tahrir al-Sham terrorists, entered Syria through Kafr Lousin passageway in Northern Idlib and were transferred to the region under the supervision of Turkey in Jisr al-Shughour in Western Idlib and Northwestern Hama.
They added that 8 trucks carrying plastic barrels containing fluid Chlorine were unloaded in one of the bases of Turkistani terrorist group in the village of Halouz in Western Jisr al-Shughour.
Also, 18 other trucks, carrying prefabricated residential boxes, cement walls and other technical equipment, communication systems and electronic sniper guns, were transferred to Jabal Ishtabraq region.
The sources also said that 3 trucks moved towards Turkey at night under heavy security measures of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at, raising the speculations that they had transferred the foreign terrorist commanders of Tahrir al-Sham to Turkey.
Meantime, the Turkish forces stopped activities of al-Barqoum checkpoint which was the biggest Tahrir al-Sham checkpoint in Aleppo-Damascus highway.
[END REPORT]
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