Well, it’s possible Assad is just another dum bass.
The ongoing fighting is very near Damascus, right in the suburbs I believe and the fighting can be house-to-house and block-to-block, so who knows what the ground commanders and upwards are thinking?
Maybe they couldn’t take out who was in the building after multiple attempts and thought no one would be looking, and since Trump is pulling out... Now’s the time to roll up all these little beds of resistance.
Who knows or can explain their thinking?
We know one thing about Muslim dictators: They’re brutal as #%%$# and killing a whole bunch of innocents is no more than you or me swatting flies or gassing roaches.
Some say the whole Saddam not releasing his WMD when he really didn’t have them was a ploy to keep us and others from treating him like the degraded military beggar Iraq had become and then being overthrown by his own people for not protecting them. And think of what Iran wanted to do to him... So Saddam had his own logic working here that utterly failed him and actually led to his downfall.
So, not our kind logic to be sure.
I found somehting that makes sense,it never was a gas bomb but a high explosive that set off other stuff.
this may well be more likely and supports your using the French intel which could still be true.
Something else to consider:
A Syrian high explosive bomb hit supplies of aluminum phosphide stored in a building in the northeast area of Khan Sheikhoun, releasing a cloud of deadly phosphine gas, which caused the deaths and injuries.
https://www.globalresearch....