On April 4th, about 86 people were killed in a chemical attack in a town in Syria. While most people were sleeping warplanes, suspected to be from the Syrian military, dropped bombs full of toxic chemicals on the rebel filled town, Khan Sheikhoun. The innocent people were exposed to a chemical nerve agent called Sarin. Sarin causes people to have difficulty breathing because it makes the lungs heavy and causes blood to slowly fill the lungs. The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, denies using any “chemical or toxic substance”. Syria’s close ally, Russia, claims that Syria attacked a terrorist group’s ammunition depot and that is why the chemicals leaked. The American government, on the other hand, suspects the Syrian government of conducting this attack and have a four page declassified report proving so.
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The U.S has evidence proving that the Syrian government was responsible for the attacks. The author states, “The US says its military radar systems monitored a Syrian Air Force fixed-wing aircraft take off from Shayrat airbase in Homs province on Tuesday morning and fly over Khan Sheikhoun on two occasions - at 06:37 (03:37 GMT) and 06:46. US military officials told NBC News that the radar systems picked up flashes on the ground, indicating that ordnance had been dropped on the rebel-held town about the same time that the first casualties with breathing difficulties were reported”(Syria). This quotes shows that the Syrian government launched two aircrafts and those aircrafts dropped something right before reporting of breathing troubles. The breathing trouble reports were right after the mysterious things was dropped out of the military planes therefore showing that the they probably dropped bombs filled with sarin on the
The U.S has evidence proving that the Syrian government was responsible for the attacks. The author states, “The US says its military radar systems monitored a Syrian Air Force fixed-wing aircraft take off from Shayrat airbase in Homs province on Tuesday morning and fly over Khan Sheikhoun on two occasions - at 06:37 (03:37 GMT) and 06:46. US military officials told NBC News that the radar systems picked up flashes on the ground, indicating that ordnance had been dropped on the rebel-held town about the same time that the first casualties with breathing difficulties were reported”(Syria). This quotes shows that the Syrian government launched two aircrafts and those aircrafts dropped something right before reporting of breathing troubles. The breathing trouble reports were right after the mysterious things was dropped out of the military planes therefore showing that the they probably dropped bombs filled with sarin on the