I Survived a Sarin Gas Attack

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Lets be cautious here and not jump into any quick conclusions. Investigation on the 2013 gas attack and who was behind it is still murky at best.

Theodore Postol of MIT analyzed the rocket trajectory and put a lot of doubt on the the location firing the rockets [0]

There is also reports that, Obama's Director of National Intelligence at the time, James Clapper came to the conclusion the gas attack did not come from the Syrian regime [1]

"Obama's Director of National Intelligence at the time, James Clapper, was able to dissuade Obama from ordering a cruise missile strike, according to a newly-published book by Mideast expert Michael Lüders. Presumably, a deciding factor was an analysis of the chemical weapons used in Ghouta, conducted by a British military lab, which found the gas to be of a different composition than the Syrian army possessed."

There are also reports of the ISIS using chemical in Syria [2]

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1006...

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/is-assad-to-blame-for-the-chemical-weap...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/middleeast/isis-che...

The risk of disinformation to manipulate sentiment (and Trump) is high. It may be an Assad WMD attack (ie they cheated on WMD destruction) or it might not (ie ISIS agitators using false stories). It's hard to tell without "slow news" investigative journalism to get real facts.

Only by seeing the pictures I feel soo sad. Imagine what happens every day with children over the world because of wars and hunger.

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/#mediaitems/VODMin...

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