Yes, Syria Used Chemical Weapons
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A reporter for the Syria
Life Network (SLN) told the consulate staff the symptoms included
burning eyes, temporary blindness, relaxed and numb joints,
unresponsiveness, nausea, unconsciousness, difficulty breathing, and
temporary paralysis affecting ...
Yes, Syria Used Chemical Weapons
Josh Rogin has the whole of the secret State Department cable on poison gas in Syria at The Cable blog at Foreign Policy. Rogin's report embarrassingly discredits official assurances that no chemical weapons were used in Homs on December 23.
The [US Istanbul] consulate's own contacts
reported that victims had symptoms that were "consistent with poisonous
gas inhalation." A reporter for the Syria Life Network (SLN) told the
consulate staff the symptoms included burning eyes, temporary blindness,
relaxed and numb joints, unresponsiveness, nausea, unconsciousness,
difficulty breathing, and temporary paralysis affecting the spine.
One contact interviewed by the consulate
staff reported that the agent used was suspected to be Agent 15, a
chemical thought to be related to BZ, an incapacitating agent controlled
under schedule 2 of the Chemical Weapons Convention, to which Syria is
not a party. This contact said the agent was treatable with
Visostgman-Physostigmine, Alberodquisan, and Vitamin B6. The use of the
drug Atropine worsened the condition of the patients, this contact said,
which would be consistent with the theory that a BZ-like compound was
used.
… [C]ontacts reported to the consulate
that seven people were killed by the dispersed gas and 50 more victims
were treated in a field clinic. The seven dead were buried and videos of
their burial "clearly show the absence of visual injuries," the cable
stated.
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