Syria chemical weapons attack blamed on Assad, but where’s the evidence ? - CBS News
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Article de CBS News du 29/08/13
With the possible exception of the intercepted phone calls, and the claim by Cameron on Thursday that regime soldiers had taken precautions typical of chemical weapons use, the vast majority of the evidence of Assad regime culpability presented by both Cameron, the Obama administration and their allies in France, Turkey and other nations, is circumstantial in nature.
It hinges largely on the argument, as Cameron put it Thursday, that there are simply “no plausible alternate scenarios.”
Below is a look at some of the often-reiterated circumstantial evidence presented by the U.S. and U.K. governments, along with questions which remain unanswered pertaining to that evidence and which skeptics of the legal basis for a military intervention in both countries’ legislatures will likely be seeking answers to in the coming days.
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"No plausible alternate scenarios"
“There is no credible evidence that any opposition group has used CW (chemical weapons). A number continue to seek a CW capability, but none currently has the capability to conduct a CW attack on this scale.”
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Assad has done it before
“We have assessed previously that the Syrian regime used lethal CW on 14 occasions from 2012 ... A clear pattern of regime use has therefore been established,” declared the JTI report in Britain on Thursday.
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Assad regime delayed inspections to destroy evidence
Less than five days after the attack in Ghouta, an Obama administration official told CBS News that the Assad regime had essentially blocked a team of United Nations inspectors already in Damascus access to the Ghouta site — a delay the White House said would make any eventual granting of permission “too late to be credible.”