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Ali, he was executed in 2010. in addition to the thousands who died, between 7,000 and 10,000 were injured. they dropped it via planes. the first signs were an odd smell like sweet apples. people were surprised how quiet the bombs seemed. and suddenly one of the first signs was sheep and goats started to fall over in the streets and birds started dropping from the sky. >> that an example of what sarin will do. there was a feeling in that attack hussein used a variety of chemical weapons against ...

Previous gas attack. he is asked, is there credible evidence about sarin gas and chlorine. no, i have not gotot that evidence. i dont have the evidence. what im saying is that other groups on the ground, ngos, fighters, have said crn has been used.sa we are looking for evidence. i dont have evidence, credible or uncredible. that was the response from the actual exchange. i dont know -- did you see an agent of putin, too? >> hes saying we dont have assets on the ground and mustard syria. those wh...

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Ground, many of them children, foam in their mouths, which is a potential bit of evidence of a chemical attack. just more than a year ago that the u.s. launched missiles at a syrian air base. that strike came after an alleged sarin attack by the syrian government. the president will meet with his advisers and military officers in the coming hours, and hell have to decide how the u.s. responds this time to those videos that you just saw. >> thats right. and cnns ben wedeman is in beirut in neighb...

That are making a link between assads actions and the presidents words. "washington post" says a year ago president trumps new administration announced that removing assad from power was no longer a priority of u.s. government. soon afterward the man known as the butcher of damascus launched a sarin attack that killed more than 80 syrians. trump responded to that. he also brought up syria again last week. he said, well be coming out of syria, like very soon, let the other people take care of it ...

Greatest ally. russia said they would be the guarantor of that progress, would agree to make sure theyd step up for assad, step up for syria, ensuressad would not hide chemical weapons. in fact, thousands of tons of syrian chemical munitions were destroyed. but now it is 3 1/2 years later and we havent had another attack on the scale of what we saw back in 2013 with over 1,400 people killed and hundreds of children killed in a sarin attack, but there was some kind of gas attack. there was some k...

With congress. at times he just has to inform congress. i think what weve been seeing recently is his rction to what is happening throughout the world. >> hes also learning that the business of red lines or any line, is a tough one. barrel bombs, which according to one computation, were dropped at a rate of every 40 minutes during the year 2016, dropped mostly from helicopters on civilians. they often contain chlorine gas. >> yes. >> and what do you do about categorizing that as opposed to a sar...

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>> hes also learning that the business of red lines or any line is a tough one. barrel bombs, which according to one comp yewtation were dropped at a rate of every five minutes during the year 2016, dropped mostly from helicopters on civilians. they often contain chlorine gas. what do you do about categorizing that as opposed to a sarin attack on the civilians we saw this other day? >> well, the president wasnt in office back in 2016. but, you know -- >> theyre still being dropped. >> after seei...

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