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In response to Chris Slee: I'm obviously not qualified to answer the technical side of what Postol wrote, but there is a political side that is even more devastating to his entire approach. The original claim, coming from Putin & Co., was that the bomb hit a warehouse where the ingredients to sarin were stored and upon release these combined to form sarin. By what he writes, Postol is in effect rejecting this "explanation", but he never deals with it. To me, this in itself brands what he writes as being entirely unserious and dishonest. I also think that we may have allowed ourselves to get too hung up on the sarin attack in and of itself, allowing the Putin/Assad apologists to ignore the follow-up bombing of the hospital. I think the two have to be connected, because the ARE connected. And the second attack thoroughly refutes the claim that "Assad couldn't have done the sarin attack because he had nothing to gain from it." But nobody is denying the hospital bombing; the Assad/Putin apologists are just hoping that everybody simply forgets about it. John Reimann -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
