Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base
by Veratyr on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:41PM
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> the probability of them actually being in a weapons store the rebels held, to me seems if not equally probable
I'm far from an expert here but I read in one report that Assad generally doesn't store the Sarin gas in its final form as it's highly unstable but instead stores one of the precursor chemicals which takes little effort to convert. Doing this would mean a strike on a warehouse wouldn't release the deadly gas.
I think it's slightly less probably given that the rebels would have had to made a conscious choice to convert the chemical to Sarin and store it. Do the rebels have any history of using it?
I'm far from an expert here but I read in one report that Assad generally doesn't store the Sarin gas in its final form as it's highly unstable but instead stores one of the precursor chemicals which takes little effort to convert. Doing this would mean a strike on a warehouse wouldn't release the deadly gas.
I think it's slightly less probably given that the rebels would have had to made a conscious choice to convert the chemical to Sarin and store it. Do the rebels have any history of using it?