It's A Long Way To The Top

 UN Data on Gas Attack Point to Assad's Top Forces
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 "Details buried in the United Nations report on the Syrian chemical weapons attack point directly at elite military formations loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, some of the strongest findings to date that suggest the government gassed its own people. The inspectors listed the precise compass directions of flight for two rocket strikes that appeared to lead back toward the government's elite redoubt in Damascus, Mount Qasioun, which overlooks and protects neighbourhoods and Assad's presidential palace and where his Republican Guard and the army's powerful Fourth Division are entrenched. "When you fire it from such a place, it means that you don't care if fingers will be pointed to you in some period of time," said retired Lebanese Army General Elias Hanna, a lecturer on strategy and geopolitics at the American University of Beirut."