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Kasz216 on 04 September 2013
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ArnoldRimmer said:
Kasz216 said:

The point isn't that you should take their word for absolutely true, but it's worth noting the reason they didn't have teams in quicker is exactly because Syria refused them access to areas they wanted to test for chemical weapons attacks,  the UK report just further backs up that line of reasoning.

Syria was just trying to limit it to the area the chemcial weapons attacks weren't there's.

Please give me a link where I can find more information about what the UK report says about Syria refusing them access. I'm really very interested in finding as much information as possible about how that chemical weapons inspection became reality. I've found extremely few press coverage on this matter so far.

I want to understand the backgrounds. For example, I can perfectly understand why right after the recent chemical weapons attack, the syrian government did not want to let the UN chemical weapons inspectors to the scene.

It doesn't make any sense that Assad would order a chemical weapons attack while UN chemical weapons inspectors are in the country for 2 weeks. It's complete nonsense, so it was either the rebels themselves or it was indeed forces fighting on the government side, but not because Assad ordered it. But in practice, it wouldn't even matter who was actually responsible for the CW attack, because as I've pointed out, the UN inspectors are not allowed to investigate and comment on responsibilities anyway. So their investigations would only prove what everyone already knows, that chemical weapons have been used. Since the UN inspectors would not comment on who is responsible, the majority of the public would automatically believe what the western press has tried to suggest for weeks: That Assad was behind the attacks.

The report isn't about that, the report is essentially what the US nd UK WANTED to expect this while time, just more or less released now since they've "ran out of time".

Allepo happened, the West wanted to send inspectors to inspect Alleppo, 

Syria wanted the inspection to be confined to specific parts of Aleppo.  So the UN inspection teams were stuck in Cyprus.

 

Been trying to bring up the articles but annoyingly fifty dozen aticles about the current situation comes up first even with dates included.    Here is one that at least mentions it though.

 

"So far, the Syrians are refusing to let inspectors go anywhere but Aleppo, while the United Nations is insisting that the team goes to both Aleppo and Homs. France and Britain wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last month saying the mission should look into all three cases."

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/West-has-hard-evidence-of-Syria-chemical-weapons-use-309614