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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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They could be faked. With what I remember about Sarin gas from my training (20 some odd years ago), it would wipe out a exposed civilian population. That and because its persistent it would continue to kill for a while after the attack (up to weeks on surfaces not exposed to sunlight)
Its not mustard gas which is a blister agent. It could be cyanide based, but again that pretty well kills anyone in the effected area dead.
It could be a propaganda piece for all we know or a less noxious choking agent, Chlorine
It could also be a vomiting agent that causes irritation to the lungs and digestive track