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UN watchdog says sarin used in Khan Sheikhoun attack
[Al Jazeera] A fact-finding mission by the UN's chemical watchdog, the OPCW, has concluded that sarin or a sarin-like substance was used as a chemical weapon in the April 4 attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.The confidential report released on Thursday by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will now be taken up by a joint UN-OPCW panel to determine whether Syrian government forces were behind the attack. "Based on its work, the FFM (fact-finding mission) is able to conclude that a large number of people, some of whom died, were exposed to sarin or a sarin-like substance," said the report, parts of which were obtained by AFP news agency. "The release that caused this exposure was most likely initiated at the site where there is now a crater in the road," it added. "It is the conclusion of the FFM that such a release can only be determined as the use of sarin, as a chemical weapon." At least 87 people, including many children, were killed in the attack that the United States, La Belle France and Britannia have said was carried out by  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... 's forces. The US launched a retaliatory cruise missile strike days later against a Syrian airbase from where it alleges the chemical weapons attack was launched. The OPCW did not visit the Shayrat airbase in Homs or the town of Khan Sheikhoun, where the attack took place, in rebel-held Idlib. US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... said in a statement that she had the "highest confidence in the OPCW report". "Now that we know the undeniable truth, we look forward to an independent investigation to confirm exactly who was responsible for these brutal attacks so we can find justice for the victims," she added. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-01 |
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