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Chemical weapons 101: Six facts about sarin and Syria鈥檚 stockpile
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Chemical weapons 101: Six facts about sarin and Syria鈥檚 stockpile
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Accusations that Syria used chemical weapons on rebel strongholds outside Damascus draw renewed attention to the banned nerve agent sarin 鈥� the weapon that medical personnel on the scene suspect was used and the agent US intelligence officials believe was used by government forces on at least two earlier occasions in the country鈥檚 civil war.
It was the earlier suspected uses of sarin in Syria that led President Obama to find in April that the regime of Bashar Assad had almost certainly crossed a 鈥渞ed line鈥� in its 2-1/2-year battle with rebels seeking his ouster.
Perhaps the best-known recent use of sarin previously was in the 1995 Tokyo subway attack 鈥� known in Japan as the Subway Sarin Incident 鈥� in which members of a domestic cult-turned-terrorist group punctured bags of liquid sarin with sharpened umbrella tips in subway cars.
At least 13 people died in the attack and some 1,000 were injured.
But sarin鈥檚 legacy is about to get an update. With casualty reports suggesting the attacks near Damascus are the deadliest since Saddam Hussein gassed the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988 鈥� sarin seems likely to be associated with Syria and Mr. Assad.
[Updated Aug. 21, 2013]
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Bashar Assad almost certainly crossed a 'red line' by using sarin or some other chemical weapon against his own people, President Obama said in April. The casualty toll from the latest suspected use suggests sarin henceforth will be associated with Syria and Mr. Assad.
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By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer
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