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Why would it put that theory to rest? The theory is based on the rebels using the government’s sarin that they would have obtained from one of the bases/ weapons caches they took over.THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, supporting Western claims that government forces under President Bashar al-Assad were behind the atrocity.
Laboratories working for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons compared samples taken by a U.N. mission in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta after the Aug. 21, 2013 attack, when hundreds of civilians died of sarin gas poisoning, to chemicals handed over by Damascus for destruction in 2014.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...to-largest-sarin-attack-sources-idUSKBN1FJ0MG
Hopefully this puts to rest all the CT nonsense about the rebels being the ones using gas. But, I'm not going to hold my breath.
It still isn’tConsidering the mess of the civil war all the defections and looting of government caches that wasnt really that far-fecthed.
Wasn’t IS’ chemical weapon production supposedly limited to chlorine? I never heard they were able to produce sarin?You are aware that there are also tests, that show it was not Syrian stock as well right?
And multiple intelligence agencies saying ISIS has chemical weapons capability.
This is what this really comes down to though. The Syrian government was winning, as they are now.
The reward, and the risk for using those weapons was so out of balance and weighted toward risk, that anyone who actually believes the Syrian government used those weapons is a fool.
Wasn’t IS’ chemical weapon production supposedly limited to chlorine? I never heard they were able to produce sarin?
Thats what I thought.In terms of sarin, their "chemical weapons capability" was Syrian Army stockpiles.
From the article:
NO CHANCE REBELS BEHIND GHOUTA
Smithson and other sources familiar with the matter said it would have been virtually impossible for the rebels to carry out a coordinated, large-scale strike with poisonous munitions, even if they had been able to steal the chemicals from the government’s stockpile.
In terms of sarin, their "chemical weapons capability" was Syrian Army stockpiles.
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, supporting Western claims that government forces under President Bashar al-Assad were behind the atrocity.
Laboratories working for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons compared samples taken by a U.N. mission in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta after the Aug. 21, 2013 attack, when hundreds of civilians died of sarin gas poisoning, to chemicals handed over by Damascus for destruction in 2014.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...to-largest-sarin-attack-sources-idUSKBN1FJ0MG
Hopefully this puts to rest all the CT nonsense about the rebels being the ones using gas. But, I'm not going to hold my breath.
True storyFunny thing is Assad is still preferable to the Islamist rebels even if he did used sarin gas. That's how much of a shithole that region of the world is.
I believe SBJJ too
ya as he just said, obtaining the Sarin is one thing in a Civil War
being actually trained to handle/store/launch/clean it up are two entirely different things tho