Chief U.N. Chemical Arms Inspector Says Syria Report Done
The head of the U.N. chemical weapons inspection team on Friday said he has completed his report on Syria and will deliver it to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York this weekend.
Speaking by telephone from the Netherlands, Ake Sellstrom told The Associated Press that he didn't know exactly when the report would be released publicly.
Sellstrom confirmed that "it's done, but when to present it is up to the secretary-general."
He declined to comment on the report's conclusions.
Sellstrom's inspection team was charged with determining whether deadly agents were used in Syria, not who was responsible.
Earlier on Friday, Ban said U.N. experts will confirm in the report that chemical weapons were used in an attack near Damascus.
"I believe the report will be an overwhelming report that the chemical weapons was used," he said.
Ban also gave a U.N. estimate that 1,400 people were killed in an August 21 attack which led to western threats of a military strike on President Bashar Assad's forces.
13 September 2013, 21:38
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Not only do they have proof positive that it was serin gass used, but that it is of the type and nature stockpiled by the Assad Regime and they have proof of the shells from which the CW was delivered. Regime shells. This is more than enough proof to render Assad as a War Criminal for having committed a crime against humanity.
That Assad is playing himself as the indispensable party to compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention now, is an abomination. He is not a partner for peace, but a war criminal and Putin, Khomenie and Nasrallah are his accomplices. If the US continues to engage the fiction that there is some peaceful resolution to this atrocity, then indeed Assad would have beaten the rap, and the world is a much less safer place than it was before March 15, 2011.
13 September 2013, 21:38
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"When good men do nothing, evil triumphs. Evil, sin and sinful men must be opposed. God commands those who are good, not just to avoid evil but actively oppose it.
"Christians are to not only to 'have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but (also) reprove them' (Eph. 5:11). Those who do nothing about sin and evil, help the sin and evil to prevail. One who is silent when there are those around him in sin becomes a partaker with them (Eph. 5:7)." So said Edmund Burke
13 September 2013, 21:38
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"When good men do nothing, evil triumphs. Evil, sin and sinful men must be opposed. God commands those who are good, not just to avoid evil but actively oppose it.
"Christians are to not only to 'have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but (also) reprove them' (Eph. 5:11). Those who do nothing about sin and evil, help the sin and evil to prevail. One who is silent when there are those around him in sin becomes a partaker with them (Eph. 5:7)." So said Edmund Burke
13 September 2013, 22:37
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"When the world have a sect that been creating terrorists to kill infidels for one simple reason that they are Christians. When there is a sect kills shiaa in Iraq and else where for being Shiaa. When there is a sect eating human then the world has to act and this has to be eliminated." Said God
13 September 2013, 23:44
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@putin1
When arrogance knows no bounds we get sectarian comments like yours. Have you no shame?
