On Sunday night the flagship program of the US outlet CBS News, 60 Minutes, broadcast a 13-minute report about the Assad regime’s chemical weapons attacks near Damascus in August 2013 which killed up to 2,000 people:
The report features graphic footage and interviews with victims of the attacks, first responders who treated those affected, and one of the UN inspectors who investigated the scenes.
60 Minutes has also posted extracts from its interviews with the UN inspector: “When I arrived in August [2013], the Syrians wouldn’t even admit they had a chemical weapons program.”
In the August 2013 attacks, “the way to apply chemical weapons was the perfect time”:
Assad’s refusal in September 2013 to acknowledge that Syria has chemical weapons or that an attack occurred on August 21, 2013:
EA’s coverage of the August 2013 attacks:
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