FULL TEXT: French Declassified Intelligence Report Claiming Assad Behind Syria Gas Attacks
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Here is the full declassified national assessment provided by the French foreign ministry in English
France concluded after technical analysis of open
sources and "reliable intelligence" that a chemical attack on Douma on
April 7 was carried out by Syrian government forces, a declassified intelligence report showed on Saturday.
Here
is the full declassified national assessment provided by the French
foreign ministry in English: I. SEVERAL LETHAL CHEMICAL ATTACKS TOOK
PLACE IN THE TOWN OF DOUMA IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY,7 APRIL
2018, AND WE ASSESS WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE THAT THEY WERE
CARRIED OUT BY THE SYRIAN REGIME.
Following the Syrian regime’s
resumption of its military offensive, as well as high levels of air
force activity over the town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, two new cases
of toxic agents employment were spontaneously reported by civil society
and local and international media from the late afternoon of 7 April.
Non-governmental medical organizations active in Ghouta (the Syrian American
Medical Society and the Union of Medical Care and Relief
Organizations), whose information is generally reliable, publicly stated
that strikes had targeted in particular local medical infrastructure on
6 and 7 April.