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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The deal to evacuate four towns, some besieged by Assad, some by the opposition, involved some extraordinary intrigue—and terrible risks.
By Emma Beals @ The Daily Beast, April 21
The United Nation's Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced Thursday that it had found “incontrovertible proof” that the Syrian government used “sarin or a sarin-like substance” in a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun earlier this month [....]
But the war continues, and there are other policies pushed by Assad’s government that need to be examined closely. The Syrian regime and its allies are continuing to carry out what they call their “reconciliation and evacuation” policy across Syria's besieged areas. [....] the “reconciliation” part of this program is, to say the least, problematic. It is championed by the Syrian regime, and Russian forces, as the best option for stability in the country, while the opposition and human rights organizations see it as forced displacement, which is itself a war crime [....]
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It was sarin; the press release:
OPCW Director-General Shares Incontrovertible Laboratory Results Concluding Exposure to Sarin
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 19 April 2017 — The Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reconvened today to further address the allegation of chemical weapons use in the Khan Sheikhun...
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by artappraiser on Fri, 04/21/2017 - 3:55pm