Snipers in Syria shoot at UN chemical inspectors: UN

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27. UN inspectors ordered out by regime after 90 minutes. Were meant to stay for six hours ...

UN inspectors were not able to visit at least a half-dozen key sites in the area of the suspected chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, according to a doctor who met the group. ... The inspectors "were supposed to stay for six hours but they stayed for an hour and a half only".

They took samples of the soil and some affected animals. They took a chicken. They refused to take the chemical rocket. It seems they are not allowed to take the rocket with them.

After an hour and a half, they got an order from the regime to leave ASAP. The security force told the committee if they did not leave now, they could not guarantee their security. They could not visit the main six sites where the chemical rockets had fallen and lots of people were killed.

The committee did not visit any house in the district. We asked the committee to exhume the bodies for checking them. But they refused. They say that there was no need to do that. We had prepared samples for the committee from some bodies and video documentation. There were urine and blood samples as well as clothes. But they refused to take them.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/un-chemical-weapons-syria-90-minutes