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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I doubt they'd use tear gas. They'd use Sarin gas which is fairly common in Middle East arsenals.
Its cheap as dirt to use. Its fairly persistent. It kills with very little exposure and via skin contact. But the shelf life is relatively short (weeks), once its prepped and armed.
We know Syria has it, they had it in the arsenal's leading up to this rebellion. If Assaad was innocent he could have screamed that the rebels stole it.
Iran has it even though they deny it, and they support Assaad so he could easily be getting it from them. The Russian's had a pretty robust chemical weapons stockpile as did Iraq at one point in time.
This whole war by Asaad has been about punishment, nothing more or less. He not only wants to win, but he wants to make an example so the logic is there for him to use it.
I don't see the logic of the rebels using it to be honest. Why would they want Nato to go in and install a potentially unfriendly government. The radical groups in this rebellion certainly wouldn't want Nato in there at all.
Nato will absolutely not go in there nor will the UN do anything as long as there is the spectre of a Russian response.
I have more faith that Asaad used his arsenal then the Rebels getting it from elsewhere and using it without experience. You literally need specialized artillary and infantry trained in the handling of it and having the equipemnt to be able to work in a chemical attacked area.
I haven't seen the video's yet. But are there healthy people with exposed skin in the area?
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I don't doubt that Sarin would be the most likely used agent, but the videos really don't show evidence of that. Sarin gas causes the muslces to remain a permanently fired state. You basically convulse to death and are unable to relax your muscles to breath.
The videos show people coughing, which is a sign that they are getting air in. You can't cough multiple times without air coming back in.
Another issue is the way the medical treaters are dealing with the victims. When someone is exposed to Sarin gas, the gas on their clothes and skin can be transferred to another person via the air or any exposed skin. You cannot treat victims of Sarin gas without a heavy duty hazmat suit of some kind. The treaters in the videos are wearing shorts and t-shirts.
A could be totally wrong here, but the videos just seem fake to me. There is so much tragedy there, that you could easily put a few staged shots of people supposedly in the throws of death from a sarin attack intermixed with shots of actual attacks and bodies pretty easily.