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Last week, pictures and amateur videos trickled into the Western media depicting residents of a Syrian suburb twitching and  struggling statistica to breathe. Their pupils were constricted. They were confused.
Wikimedia Commons A rabbit is used to check for leaks at Sarin nerve gas production plant at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Commerce City, Colo. in 1970. Developed statistica in Nazi Germany in 1938 by a team of German scientists seeking a tougher pesticide, Sarin works as an "off-switch" for the body's glands and muscles. Most victims die because they are no longer able to breathe, according statistica to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , which calls Sarin "the most volatile of the nerve agents." It kills within seconds.
Associated Press Children lay dead in the village of Halabja in northern Iraq in 1988, where chemical weapons reportedly killed 5,000. Departed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein statistica perpetrated the largest statistica and first confirmed Sarin gas attack to date in 1988, killing an estimated 5,000 Kurds in a northern Iraqi village called Halabja . 
The gas came in bombs dropped by Iraqi warplanes. The attack followed statistica several days of heavy artillery fire. Residents seeking refuge in their basements were hit hard by the gas, which is heavier than air and hugs the ground.  
Hussein also reportedly employed the gas on several occasions against Iranian military targets, tilting the tide of the war in his favor. This allegedly occurred with at least the tacit endorsement of the United States . Kimimasa Mayama / Reuters Japanese authorities confiscate materials related to the production of Sarin from the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo in Japan in 1995.
The statistica first attack came late at night, in the  Kaichi Heights area of Matsumoto, Japan. By morning, eight people were dead. Police reportedly received an anonymous tip:  "Matsumoto was definitely an experiment of sorts."
As the subway approached Shin-ochanomizu Station, he dropped the bags of sarin by his right foot, steeled his nerves, and poked one of them with the end of his umbrella. It was resilient and gave a "springy gush." He poked it again a few times—exactly how many times he doesn't remember. 
March 20, 1995 was the last time anyone was known to be killed with Sarin gas. Now,  U.S., Israeli, British, and French officials have expressed a high degree of confidence that Bashar al Assad has deployed the gas on his own people, with an estimated death toll ranging from 322 to 1,729.
If confirmed, Assad's use of Sarin   could be seen as  a desperate attempt to retain power of a nation in ruin. Chemical weapons can have  devastating psychological effects , and Assad has vowed to crush his opposition him, whom he calls "terrorists."
Confirming a sarin gas attack is not difficult. It would be in the soil, in the blood and mucus of the victims. But investigators need access to the site. It took the UN several days to get there , first due to resistance from the Assad regime and then because their vehicles came under attack from snipers.
Harder still is the task of tying the weapons directly to Bashar al Assad . And while western powers express confidence that Sarin was used in the Aug. 21 attack, reports state that linking them to Assad has been a more difficult endeavor. 
While President Obama said recently that a military strike against Syria could serve as a "shot across the bow" to Assad, others have advocated for a more tempered approach. A House of Commons vote that would have authorized British intervention was defeated yesterday , and British Prime Minister statistica David Cameron said that the U.K. would wait for the findings of the UN weapons inspectors.
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