Chemical Weapons Experts Not Sold on US Claim in Syria!

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• Chemical Weapons Experts Not Sold on US Claim in Syria! 
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  There is still a major lack of solid evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, chemical weapons experts warned on Friday, saying “they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a sarin gas attack.”
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  The White House claimed Thursday that they have evidence of chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government, including the use of sarin, but has not yet published their evidence. Such an attack, the Obama administration claims, crosses the “red line” over which the U.S. will now increase its “military support” for the rebels. According to McClatchy News, the Obama administration has their work cut out for them to prove such claims. McClatchy reports:
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  Chemical weapons experts voiced skepticism Friday about U.S. claims that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad had used the nerve agent sarin against rebels on at least four occasions this spring, saying that while the use of such a weapon is always possible, they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a sarin gas attack, despite months of scrutiny.
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  “It’s not unlike Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark,” said Jean Pascal Zanders, a leading expert on chemical weapons who until recently was a senior research fellow at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies. “It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack, it’s that we’re not seeing what we would expect to see from a sarin attack.”
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  Foremost among those missing items, Zanders said, are cellphone photos and videos of the attacks or the immediate aftermath.
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  “In a world where even the secret execution of Saddam Hussein was taped by someone, it doesn’t make sense that we don’t see videos, that we don’t see photos, showing bodies of the dead, and the reddened faces and the bluish extremities of the affected,” he said.
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  “Ultimately, without more information, we are left with the need to trust the integrity of the U.S. intelligence community in arriving at its ‘high confidence’ judgment,” Greg Thielmann, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Arms Control Association, told McClatchy in an email.
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  Thielmann noted that the White House had a lack of a “continuous chain of custody for the physiological samples from those exposed to sarin.”
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