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U.S. officials: No, Assad didn’t use chemical weapons

Allahpundit — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:31:40 +0000

Oops.

It’s Hoax Exposure Day on the Internet, I guess. Or is this just a way of stamping out some incendiary news that might force the White House to enforce its “red lines” in Syria? The gas was determined to be a “riot control agent” that was not designed to produce lasting effects, but became more [...]

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State Dep’t investigation: Assad used chemical weapons against Syrian rebels last month

Allahpundit — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:36:31 +0000

"It's incidents like this that lead to a mass-casualty event."

I blogged about this last month, remember? At the time, the only evidence was a few YouTube videos of people on gurneys, wheezing. Seemed hard to believe that Assad would shatter the taboo against using WMD for an attack so small-scale as to leave some doubt that WMDs were actually used. And yet here we [...]

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Report: Assad’s forces use chemical weapons on Syrian rebels

Allahpundit — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:01:34 +0000

Red lines.

This report is the whole Syrian civil war in a nutshell. It’s horribly brutal; both sides are sufficiently dubious that you’re not sure whom to believe; and it’s going to take a higher death toll than this to get the west involved. Seven people have died in Homs after they inhaled a “poisonous gas” used [...]

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