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Syria chemical evidence fades as UN team under fire

By REUTERS

AUGUST 26, 2013 16:56

AMSTERDAM - As UN weapons inspectors came under fire in Syria on Monday, the evidence of an apparent large-scale chemical weapons attack they are seeking is already fading from the scene.

The longer it takes the 20 experts to get to the spot where rockets carrying nerve agents are said to have killed hundreds of people on August 21, the harder it will be for the mission led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom to find meaningful remnants of chemical weapons.

With Western powers considering military strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad if they conclude he used gas-laden rockets in an escalation of the country's two-and-half-year civil war, reliable evidence will be key to their deliberations.

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