First it sets a very high bar on the evidential threshold for concluding that
a chemical attack took place and that it was conducted by the Syrian regime.
The OPCW inspectors who arrived in Damascus on Saturday are being blocked from even entering Douma, where
the chemical attack took place.
«This is the happiest news I have heard in my life,» a resident of Khan Sheikhoun, where
the chemical attack took place, told reporter Richard Hall.
Not exact matches
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis
takes a look at the energy markets as the Syrian
chemical attack and a missile strike on Saudi Arabia shake Middle Eastern oil producers.
As international officials worked to try to confirm that a
chemical attack had
taken place, Trump
took the rare step of directly criticizing Putin, connecting him to the
attack.
Unlike the US's strike in April 2017, the latest one did not target Syrian jets or airfields — though the earlier
attack apparently had little impact, as Syrian jets
took off from the damaged airfield within 24 hours and reports of
chemical warfare persisted.
The AFP reports that U.S. President Donald Trump has promised a «forceful» response to the alleged
chemical attack in Syria as Western leaders consider what action to
take.
Expectations for the West to
take military action had been building since a suspected
chemical - weapons
attack killed civilians in Syria more than a week ago.
Inspectors racing to verify the suspected
chemical weapons
attack on Douma last month are to
take the unprecedented step of exhuming the bodies of...
While the
attack did
take out several military positions and research facilities linked to
chemical weapons, it had little effect on degrading Assad's power to wage further war on rebel factions.
It's all a vicious cycle: use
chemicals, create resistant bacteria, get sick,
take antibiotics, wipe out the good bacteria, get
attacked again by even worse bacteria...
It now seems fairly clear that the US and the UK are set to
take military action in Syria in the coming days in response to the recent
chemical attacks there.
With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump
take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale
attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a
chemical plant in Waterford.
This prevents the OPCW from being able to identify who is responsible for
chemical attacks in Syria and restricts it to only ascertaining whether the
attack took place or not.
Cameron warned that «the world needs to
take a very tough response to things like a
chemical weapons
attack.»
President Barack Obama says he has decided that the United States should
take military action against Syria in response to a deadly
chemical weapons
attack.
«It
took me 15 years to save the money that I have put into this,» says former high school teacher Charles Hull (right), ensconced in his Emigrant, Montana, shelter, which is resistant to nuclear, biological, and
chemical attack.
She started
taking Singulair once a day, which helps prevent asthma
attacks by blocking the
chemicals that the body releases in response to asthma triggers.
It contains the
chemical syndephrine, which has been linked to heart
attacks and strokes in healthy people when
taken alone or combined with caffeine.
However, when Nemerov
takes responsibility for a
chemical attack on Cechnya (the worst in history), fears of a determined military ruler seem to be confirmed.
Milloy, who actually calls himself the «junk man» with no apparent sense of irony, is a denier - for - hire who happily
takes money from tobacco interests,
chemical interests and of course fossil fuel interests to do their dirty work,
attacking seemingly any scientist whose findings threaten their financial bottom line.