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y syrian authorities denied any such seizure there or anywhere and chlorine used or stored as a cw never made much sense if jan had sarin or chlorine and isis would later have and use mustard gas this may be a cover story to how they truly acquired their cw capabilities clues of use do increase after this date but there was a consistent black fluid involved in incident 4 a week earlier monitor incident 7 8 december safira se of aleppo attack report a video shows young men with burned seeming faces more like a chemical blast than anything like sarin these reports were largely ignored and not even reported to the un investigation aclos late december chemical attacks kill 7 people each 14 december press secretary jay carney i think our warnings about any consideration of the use of these weapons were extremely clear and stark our promise of significant consequences should the assad regime go down that road were very clear and stark and they remain in place as such assad will have a well understood disincentive to do such a thing and the opposing side would have a heightened motive to do it for him incident 8 22 december daraya damascus suburbs west ghouta according to iranian press tv citing a source in the syrian presidential guard syrian troops had some militants cornered in daraya where the army was recently accused of throwing toxic gas they were hit with toxic gas thrown at them in an artillery shell the released gas was reported as yellow consistent with chlorine or the impure sarin used in syria and it was said to kill seven men of the syrian army in minutes within an hour which is fairly inconsistent with chlorine this may be the first real sarin attack of the war but hardly anyone is even aware of this stunning allegation a 2015 un report aclos hosting included a note verbale 150 from syrian authorities listing mostly later cw attacks on syrian troops mostly or all in 2014 and thought to be with chlorine this did not list but made reference to an attack where it is alleged that toxic gases were employed against syrian arab army soldiers on 22 december 2012 giving the same few details as in the press tv report that is syria s government has given no further details or even clear confirmation that this attack ever happened they keep some real things under wraps maybe this is one of those aclos to date the 8 alleged attacks of 2012 killed 6 8 civilians 1 rebel fighter and 7 government troops next we turn to the ninth and the year s final allegation that would double the civilian and rebel fighter death toll and would be better remembered an arms control association timeline actually includes it calling it the first allegation of chemical weapons use of the conflict incident 9 23 december homs khalidiya district the very next day after the above a curiously symmetrical to the above seven people were reportedly killed in a cw attack in homs actually most report it was 6 killed including a rebel fighter but the vdc listed fsa fighter alaa asad al hasan and six civilian men including two related men named hamadi and one unidentified incident details are very unclear some blamed regime missiles and others a regime ground vehicle the sohr heard that grenades were thrown perhaps from the vehicle whoever s it was others agree canisters or grenades were thrown so that they hit a wall and it was during street battles at which insurgent fighters would be present sohr said this weapon is unidentified and has not been used before no images of the grenades were published but we might see the same again in incidents 17 and 20 reportedly carrying sarin overviews aclos monitor dr piers robinson at uk column basma a uk funded opposition media operation and affiliated medics suggested sarin was used in khalidiya citing related symptoms like miosis constricted pupils and improvement with atropine treatment other medics and a reporter speaking to us diplomatic sources cited different symptoms including dilated pupils the opposite of miosis and that atropine worsened the condition of the patients perhaps fatally in some cases this suggested something more like the incapacitant bz which is not a banned chemical and which syria was not known to produce one medic described symptoms including disorientation hallucination nervousness and lack of limb control more in line with bz than sarin video i reviewed may show some relaxed delirium as with bz but also suggest suffocation with blood in the airways pink blood tinged foam is seen suctioned out suggesting a severe irritant was also used no miosis was shown and there is no messy sludge syndrome as you d see with sarin the state department soon found it likely agent 15 a seemingly mythical version of bz was used in homs julian perry robinson noted the agent 15 reference indicated the reporting includes at least some misinformation if not outright disinformation there exist incentives to spread falsehoods or otherwise deceive opinion a situation now much exacerbated by the red line utterances of the us administration later it was decided it was an unspecified riot control agent like tear gas cs perhaps crediting the grenade claims but it acted more like bz somehow and it was used so improperly that seven people died is this bz like cs type stuff perhaps the same bz cs alleged to kill 2 in the same city of homs back in february and was it scrounged from the libyan arsenal as syrian authorities had feared just before that this incident would be shelved for a few months before becoming urgent again in march and used to complicate syria s request to investigate a later attack see below 19 march but after it was reported to the opcw un joint mission they would not receive sufficient or credible information to continue investigating it and it was again shelved un report 2013 there s more action far more deaths more details and images for the events of 2013 but as it s also better known and to save space i will gloss over more of it here than i did for 2012 the run up to 19 march winter 2012 13 perhaps linked to the discredited sarin claims out of homs the saudis flew someone from syria to the uk to be tested for sarin exposure wall street journal it s not clear if there was any positive result nothing was reported 26 december and 4 january daraya west ghouta rocket impacts in daraya no cw reports but instead of exploding they release black fluid and yellow smoke is seen in the videos albeit likely a staged effect these are the same improvised volcano rockets used in the august 21 2013 ghouta attack seen in use by the syrian military but apparently in opposition hands before august and perhaps this early monitor black sarin 4 march vp biden because we recognize the great danger assad s chemical and biological arsenals pose to israel and the united states to the whole world we ve set a clear red line against the use or the transfer of the those weapons incident 10 13 march daraya damascus suburbs west ghouta u s sources would later tell un investigators about an alleged chemical attack on this date but the mission did not receive sufficient or credible information to merit investigation un report incident 11 14 march ateibah damascus suburbs east ghouta french paper le monde would later report there was an incident but it wasn t even mentioned to the un investigators like incident 10 and i don t see an aclos or monitor page so i forget how it even got listed here and didn t look up any le monde report note 15 march is the 2 year anniversary of the uprising to topple syria s government 19 march 3 synchronized cw attacks in aleppo damascus and homs incident 12 19 march khan al assal aleppo in a shi ite majority town just re taken from rebel forces and re secured by the syrian army around 7 30 am some weapon released a yellow gas reported as chlorine but sarin was later confirmed by russian and western analysis syrian government sources claimed it came in a local made rocket fired most likely by jabhat al nusra to the northwest opposition sources claimed it was a syrian jet attack or that a scud missile was used hitting their own forces on accident as they aimed for rebel position a kilometer away it seems the impact was near a military checkpoint but also near civilian homes the death toll remains unclear but high syrian sources reported 25 deaths mostly of soldiers sohr reported 10 12 civilians and 16 soldiers total 26 or 28 a later un report had just 20 killed 19 civilians and one soldier a treating physician reportedly died presumably from secondary contamination published photos also showed dead livestock aclos monitor incident 13 19 march ateibah damascus suburbs east ghouta shortly before 8am a rocket said to impact in this rebel held town releasing a black fluid and vapor of no stated color but with a foul smell app consistent with the sarin used sarin symptoms reported 7 killed an unidentified man who looks like a fighter five civilian men and an infant boy records suggest two of the civilian men were brothers and the other three men were also brothers or relatives with a rare aramaic name suggesting they were from a christian family the baby was listed late said to be from an internally displaced idp family from harasta next to douma aclos monitor incident 14 19 march baba amr homs time unclear but likely around 7 30 8 am the opposition local coordinating committees lcc reported for march 19 homs several cases of asphyxia were reported in baba amr due to releasing toxic gases by the regime s forces on the neighborhood no further details were given and no later sources would confirm anything later in the day western intelligence agencies spoke of a boosted military presence in homs with forces issued in the last few hours with chemical warfare gear likely in response to that khan al assal attack or perhaps to whatever happened in homs this third report would fade into obscurity so only two attacks were remembered for this day monitor torpedoing syria s requested investigation 20 march syria s un ambassador bashar al ja afari formally requests an investigation by the opcw and or un into the attack at khan al assal to investigate the use by the terrorist groups operating in syria of chemical weapons yesterday against civilians he specified that the effort should be technical independent and neutral russia and iran voiced support both russia and syria complained later in the day that the u k and france had blocked the request in a stalling measure monitor 20 march amid ongoing debate over an alleged chemical weapons attack out of syria yesterday president obama is doubling down on his assertion that such an attack would be considered a game changer for his administration but the president also emphasized the importance of finding out precisely whether or not this red line was crossed before making a decision that could lead to an act of war he was speaking alongside israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu in israel cbs news also the game could not be changed in assad s favor even by a jabhat al nusra al qaeda sarin attack that killed dozens 21 march the western powers used the stall to explain in a letter from france and the u k on the 21st why the u n should instead launch an urgent investigation into all allegations rather than just the one at khan al assal the other 2 attacks taken as equally urgent were the same day attack in ateibah incident 13 and homs 23 december incident 9 monitor 21 march president obama i ve made it clear to bashar al assad and all who follow his orders we will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons against the syrian people or the transfer of those weapons to terrorists the world is watching we will hold you accountable he doesn t say red line but the message is the same he s effectively encouraging more khan al assal attacks as his government helps to stall or block an investigation into the last one incident 15 24 march adra east ghouta sarin symptoms reported in another attack blamed on the heedless assad regime civilians are reportedly effected and 2 fighters from douma are reportedly killed the united nations mission did not receive sufficient or credible information aclos incident 16 25 march daraya another alleged chemical weapons use by the syrian government reported by the uk in late may is not even listed by the un as lacking evidence and not clearly reported at all but reported as deduced original issue may have been smoke from screening agent white phosphorous not healthy to breathe but not a cw aclos 4 april syria s u n ambassador al jaafari says that there had been an agreement reached with un disarmament chief angela kane to send investigators to aleppo agreed in letters on april 3 and a meeting on april 4 that cemented the agreement with a longer session set to finalize the details monitor 5 april as sana reported kane then went back on the agreement and delivered a letter the next day contrary to the previous agreement she explained this by saying that the secretary general ban had just received new information on the december incident in homs upping its urgency and requiring cancellation of the agreement to visit aleppo sana noted that al jaafari wondered how the un secretary general could have new information available to him just then and so quickly and also stated that ban s apparent procrastination raises more doubts on the attempt to politicize the issue to achieve the goal sought by some western arab and regional countries similar to what happened in iraq before it was invaded monitor 8 april syria withdraws its request for an investigation as it had morphed into something that was aimed at violation of syrian sovereignty and perhaps repeating the iraq scenario in syria monitor 17 april un secretary general ban ki moon stated that syria has impeded the un investigation by failing to agree to the scope of the un inquiry on chemical weapons use a slew of new attacks in april incident 17 9 april ateibah east ghouta only animals die aclos incident 18 combined for lack of clarity 6 18 april jobar damascus suburbs a cluster of reported sarin attacks on insurgent fighters 4 6 4 7 4 11 4 12 4 13 4 18 vdc clearly listed just one fatality ibrahim darwesh fsa from jisreen killed 14 april in jobar due to inhalation of toxic gases very poor coverage at aclos and none here at the monitor there s more info in the wikipedia article jobar chemical attacks wikipedia on april 14 a doctor at the islamic hospital in hammuriya interviewed by le monde said that earlier in the day he had given an attack victim 15 shots of atropine and some hydrocortisone cw expert jean pascal zanders replied that the treatment could have killed the patient perhaps it did and this was ibrahim darwesh was the one sarin death actually from the sarin antidote le monde said it had placed two journalists with the rebels for two months and that a photographer working for the paper suffered blurred vision and respiratory difficulties for four days after inhaling a gas on april 13 the ...
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