Sarin traces found in Syria chemical weapons attack, Britain says [View all]

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Sarin traces found in Syria chemical weapons attack, Britain says

By Michael Pearson. Greg Botelho and Holly Yan, CNN

(CNN) -- British military scientists found traces of sarin gas in soil and clothing taken from a patient treated near the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Syria's capital, the prime minister's office said Thursday.

Scientists at the Porton Down military laboratory concluded the samples were unlikely to have been faked, and Britain is sharing its findings with the United Nations, the office said.

The revelation is the most specific statement by British officials regarding the chemical they believe was used in the August 21 attack on a rebel stronghold near Damascus, though the office didn't explicitly say who was responsible. U.S. officials have, blaming Syrian government forces for an attack they say left more than 1,400 people dead, many of them children.

The British statement is not the first allegation that sarin gas -- an extremely volatile nerve agent that can kill -- has been used in Syria's gruesome, two-year civil war.

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/world/meast/syria-civil-war/

The UN is having samples from Syria tested. France and Germany presented evidence Assad did it.
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