Syrian doctor closest to attack: 90 percent chance this was sarin

[Mosby]

A doctor who operates the clinic closest to the site of a chemical weapon attack in Syria told Yahoo News he personally treated “delirious” victims who were “foaming at the mouth,” gasping for air and suffering muscle spasms, symptoms he said are consistent with sarin nerve gas poisoning.

The doctor, Dr. Mohammed Mansour, sent Yahoo News a video from his clinic showing rows of young children lined up under blankets, their faces and eyes frozen, apparently unable to speak or move.

“Based on my medical expertise, there is a 90 percent chance this was sarin gas used against these civilians,” said Dr. Mohammed Mansour in a Skype interview from Idlib province, where he runs a clinic that he said is a 15-minute drive from where the attack occurred. “We had over 25 people brought to our clinic who died instantaneously. Many of the others were delirious and unable to communicate.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/syrian-doctor-closest-to-attack-90-percent-chance-this-was-sarin-210501356.html

[Warpy]

1. Supposedly just a farming village

Villagers were mostly taking naps since bombing had kept them awake all the previous night. Most of the information that's getting out is from villagers who were in their fields or coming from other villages to help when they heard the bombs fall. Apparently that's standard operating procedure in the area, people rush in to save who they can.

BBC has a good story on this, also. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39499364

Assad obviously feels comfortable restarting chemical warfare against civilians because Asshole is in our White House.

[killbotfactory]

2. Didn't Syria destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons?

I thought that was the deal they struck with Obama/Kerry after the first attacks in 2013?

If it was Sarin, was it from a secret stockpile?

Or could it be a chlorine gas attack?

[uppityperson]

3. Chlorine gas affects the lungs, the skin of them, doesn't paralyze people. Sarin inhibits nerves

Here's a good article on it. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/what-does-sarin-do-to-people/275577/

Chlorine burns the lining of lungs. Sarin fucks your nerves so they go twing, over fire and you have no control of any muscles.

[dalton99a]

4. Evidently they lied to the international inspectors

and kept some at a secret location that the inspectors couldn't verify