I've got that, Gurey. Now, is Assad going to stop the investigation again?
http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/syria/chemical/
On 19 March 2013, allegations arose concerning a chemical weapons attack in the village of Khan al-Assal in the Aleppo province. According to the Assad regime, a rocket spewing a toxic gas in Khan al-Assal caused 26 fatalities and more than 100 injuries. Both the Assad regime and Syrian rebels denied responsibility for the alleged attack. [53] At the request of the Syrian Government, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed Åke Sellström on 27 March 2013 to head a fact-finding mission to investigate the incident. Sellström said that following mission preparation, the team would spend three to four days for inspection, and two to three weeks to write its report and conduct chemical analysis. [54 ]Despite the inspection team's preparations, the Assad Government denied the team entrance into Syria. The denial of access came amid calls by the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, South Korea, and Japan to increase the scope of the inspections to include allegations of chemical weapons use in Homs, Damascus, and Aleppo. [55]
On 19 April 2013, the United Kingdom and France announced they had "hard evidence" of chemical weapons use in at least one case. [56] On 23 April 2013 Israeli Brigadier General Itai Brun asserted sarin had been used "in a number of incidents" in Syria, based on photographs of victims foaming at the mouth and with constricted pupils and other unspecified symptoms. [57] Then, on 25 April 2013, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stated that the "U.S. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically, the chemical agent sarin." The basis for Western governments' assessments remains unclear, as it would presumably be very challenging to maintain chain of custody over collection and handling of any soil or other physiological evidence. [58] However, on 13 June 2013, Benjamin J. Rhodes, President Obama's deputy national security adviser, announced that the White House will extend military support to the Syrian opposition because there was a "high certainty" Assad's forces used chemical weapons. The White House did not clarify what the military support would encompass. It will be undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency due to the legal restraints of supplying arms without UN approval to groups attacking another government. [59] [60]
Grandpa I wish you were a non-biased person.
