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Sy Hersh’s Chemical Misfire

What the legendary reporter gets wrong about Syria's sarin attacks.
By Eliot Higgins December 9, 2013
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Theodore Postol, a professor of technology and national security at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Hersh that the Volcano is "something you could produce in a modestly capable machine shop" — in other words, a weapon the rebels could make. Postol also stated that various organizations’ flight path analysis of the Aug. 21 Volcanoes, which put the point of origin of the munitions at a Syrian military base more than nine kilometers away from the impact locations, were "totally nuts." Postol’s analysis, Hersh wrote, had "demonstrated that the range of the improvised rockets was ‘unlikely’ to be more than two kilometres."

All of this is presented as an argument that perhaps the Syrian government wasn’t responsible for the Aug. 21 sarin attack, despite the claims of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. But during my ongoing discussions with Postol’s colleague, Richard M. Lloyd, Lloyd has told me he believes the evidence collected so far would suggest the Volcano has a range of at least 2 to 2.5 kilometers. It’s worth noting that some examples of the larger Volcano rocket have been recorded with a basic nose cone, which increase the range of the munition by more than one kilometer.

This range means that the munition certainly could have originated from regime-held territory.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/12/09/sy-hershs-chemical-misfire/

i had that Foreign Policy article before getting .. Down the Alt-Right’s Syrian Rabbit Hole
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"In response to Hersh’s article the English blogger and weapons expert Eliot Higgins relied on open source material as well as chemical expertise provided by the chemical warfare expert Dan Kaszeta to form a counter-thesis. The article entitled “Sy Hersh’s Chemical Misfire” .. http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/12/09/sy-hershs-chemical-misfire/ .. was publised in Foreign Policy magazine and debunked many of Hersh’s conclusions. " .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130485964 .. then noticed in reading that one the FP above was linked in it as just repeated.

Dan Kaszeta is also regarded an expert in his field.

No, You Can’t Make Sarin in Your Kitchen

Oct 10, 2013 10:56 AM EDT
By Dan Kaszeta

President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly deflected accusations that the Syrian regime was responsible for the chemical-weapons attack Aug. 21 that
killed hundreds of civilians. Instead, Assad and his allies such as the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, allege that the Ghouta attacks were
carried out by rebels who deployed homemade sarin gas in an effort to discredit the government and spark an international intervention in the civil war.
.. more .. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-10-10/no-you-can-t-make-sarin-in-your-kitchen