A new chemical weapons investigation team has started work on identifying the culprits behind alleged attacks in Syria, the head of the world's toxic arms watchdog said.
Member states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) agreed one year ago to give The Hague-based body new powers to assign blame for attacks.
Syria has already blocked access to the chief of the so-called Identification and Investigation Team, while Moscow and Damascus have accused the Hague-based OPCW of becoming "politicised".
Huh. Syria has used chemical weapons and is refusing access to inspectors, and Russia is running interference for their little pet psycho regime.
I'm so old I remember when the brain trust of Obama-Kerry worked with Russia's Lavrov(!) to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons arsenal with their glorious 2013 chemical weapons agreement.
By resting on the foundation that Assad would pretend to get rid of its chemical weapons and we would pretend to believe them, it created the template for the Iran nuclear deal of 2015.
But I'm sure the Iran nuclear deal would work much better if allowed to continue.
