Check it out:
Speaking at a conference, Putin said "we have every reason to believe that it was a provocation, a sly and ingenious one." He added, however, that its perpetrators have relied on "primitive" technology, using old Soviet-made ammunition no longer in the Syrian army's inventory.
Well, maybe it was Saddam's.
More to the point, the man who will make sure Assad gives up all his chemical weapons and related equipment and who will make sure Assad declares all his chemical weapons and equipment soon, doesn't even think Assad launched a chemical strike in August.
This will work out swell.
