Published 16 April 2021
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday released the findings of the second report by the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT). IIT concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib on 4 February 2018.Since 2011, the year the civil war in Syria began, the Assad regime has launched atleast 336 chemical attacks, using Sarin and chlorine, against Sunni civilians.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday released the findings of the second report by the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT). The IIT is responsible for identifying the perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic where the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) has determined that chemical weapons have been used or likely used in Syria. The IIT released its first report on 8 April 2020.
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with bill neely, this about comments made by the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, she s saying it set them back by years. there also should be no direct talks with bashar al assad. what is your view on her statements? thank you, richard, for your question. having served in the u.s. military, i am not opposed to the use of force. i am opposed to unconstitutional use of force. our constitution does not allow the president to engage in acts of war without congressional authorization. while assad s chemical weapons use was horrific, congress never authorized the u.s. to attack a country that has not attacked us. this is further example of donald trump and the trump administration not following the rule of law. why is this different from the first attack? it is not. the attack last year was
military strike is not really going to have much effect other than reinforcing the norm against chemical weapons use. i think the response will have to be a slightly larger one and that s what they ll look at this afternoon. tony, do you think the president boxed himself in, as kelly said, for a bigger response this time? you applauded the president ordering the strikes last time, you said there needs to be more. what s needed now? yes. i think kelly is right. he boxed himself in by his tweet but also by the action he took a year ago which was to strike out when assad used chemical weapons. here s the problem, the president did the right thing a year ago, but he failed to leverage the military strike into a strategy to get the russians to be held accountable going forward for future strikes, to get assad s air force out of the skies and push for political transition in syria. there was a moment having used force where the president could have put in place a strategy. he failed to d