In the early hours of Aug. 21, 2013, Scott Cairns was struggling to
sleep in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. Cairns was part
of a United Nations mission headed by the Swedish scientist Åke
Sellström to investigate the regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons.
The mission included representatives from the World Health Organization
and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). As
the head of the OPCW contingent, Cairns had cause to be apprehensive.
Samples recovered from the lungs of a woman killed in an attack on
Saraqeb four months earlier had confirmed that the regime was using the
nerve agent sarin. A year earlier, on Aug. 20, 2012, then-U.S. President
Barack Obama had issued a warning, declaring the use of chemical weapons
a red line that would trigger a military response. The stakes for the
regime were high, and it seemed determined to frustrate the mission.
https://newlinesmag.com/review/the-day-the-world-stood-still/
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