Rights Group: Evidence ‘Strongly Suggests’ Syrian Gov’t Responsible For Chemical Attack

In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a member of a UN investigation t... In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a member of a UN investigation team takes samples of sands near a part of a missile is likely to be one of the chemical rockets according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The intelligence linking the Syrian regime and President Bashar Assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 Syrians is no “slam dunk,” with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say. MORE LESS
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Human Rights Watch released a report Tuesday that determined available evidence from two Damascus suburbs “strongly suggests” the Syrian government used a weapons-grade nerve agent in an Aug. 21 attack on that city.

Read the full report here.

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