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Syria chemical attack: weapons inspectors to investigate site

"nwsun, The latest chemical attack in Syria reveals the bankruptcy of Trump’s policies toward Assad"

OPCW experts to take samples from victims and site of alleged attack in Douma

Ian Sample and Martin Chulov

Fri 13 Apr 2018 13.27 EDT

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With their work facing intense scrutiny, the team must confirm that people who claim to be victims were at the site at the time of the alleged attack, and oversee directly the collection of samples. Along with others from the environment, these samples will be flown with a courier to the OPCW lab in the Hague. From there, the samples will be split and sent to OPCW-affiliated labs around the world for analysis.

Last year, chemical weapons inspectors released a report that used signature impurities to trace the trail of sarin used in an April attack in Khan Sheikhun back to stockpiles held by the Syrian regime. In Douma, the inspectors have no mandate to trace the origins of any chemical weapons to their source.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/13/chemical-weapons-inspectors-to-investigate-syria-attack-site