[Hurriyet Daily News] United Nations...boodling on the grand scale...
war crimes Sherlocks on Sept. 6 said they had evidence that Syrian government forces were behind a chemical attack that killed dozens of people in Khan Sheikhun in April.
In the first U.N. report to officially blame Damascus, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria said it had gathered an "extensive body of information" showing the Syrian airforce was behind the horrific sarin gas attack on April 4.
"All evidence available leads the Commission to conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe Syrian forces dropped an aerial bomb dispersing sarin in Khan Sheikhun," the report said.
At least 83 people, a third of them children, were killed and nearly 300 maimed in the attack on Khan Sheikhun, a town in the opposition-held northern province of Idlib, it said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor, has previously given a corpse count of at least 87.
Syria's government has denied involvement and claims it no longer possesses chemical weapons after a 2013 agreement under which it pledged to surrender its chemical arsenal.