Syria crisis: UN's del Ponte says evidence rebels 'used sarin'

BBC ^ | May 6, 2013 | Not attributed to an author

[don-o]

Testimony from victims of the Syrian conflict suggests rebels have used the nerve agent sarin, according to a leading United Nations investigator.

Carla del Ponte told Swiss TV there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof".

However, she said her panel had not yet seen evidence of government forces using chemical weapons.

Syria has recently come under growing Western pressure over the alleged use of such weapons.

Ms del Ponte, who serves on the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said in an interview with Swiss-Italian TV: "Our investigators have been in neighbouring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals.

[don-o]

Russia: Syrian rebels used sarin in Aleppo

THIS is a current thread that confirms the bbc report from may.

[soycd]

That would really get PETAs goat.

[Thane_Banquo]

Hope Carla keeps an eye ought for drones.

[VerySadAmerican]

Obama, Kerry, McCain....what did they know and when did they know it?

I don’t include Graham because he only knows what McCain knows.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Ancient Wonderboy]

i’M NOT GOING TO SAY, “i TOLD YOU SO”

[JerseyDvl]

Simply playing devils advocate here: My limited research of both sarin and vx explained that these types of nerve agents degrade rather quickly.

Wikipedia: Sarin degrades after a period of several
weeks to several months. The shelf life can be
shortened by impurities in precursor
materials. According to the CIA, some Iraqi
sarin had a shelf life of only a few weeks,
owing mostly to impure precursors.

[CMB_polarization]

It actually doesn’t matter who is using the sarin. All that matters is that public opinion is swayed sufficiently for the Unites States to inject disruptive force to effect regime change, for as yet unelaborated purposes.

[Lancey Howard]

As appears to be what the UN is saying. How did the thugs get access to sarin?

The imaginary sarin was shipped to Syria along with convoys of other imaginary WMDs by Saddam Hussein prior to the US invasion of Iraq. The liberal Democrats will back this up, because there were no WMDs in Iraq and Bush blundered America into war based on bad intel that he knew was bad intel all along. ("Bush lied and people died", etc.)

Therefore, there can't possibly be any gas or nerve agents (AKA, "WMDs") in Syria.
Except for Ubama's imaginary ones.

[Paul R.]

Useful information!