Syria chemical weapons report pdf

Get help. Password recovery. The Jewish Press — JewishPress. Where Am I: First. Israel News Talk Radio. Bring Them Home. Yishai Fleisher Show. Goldstein on Gelt. Share on Facebook. Photo Credit: IDF. The Mechanism consists of an independent three-member panel together with a core staff of professionals selected on the basis of their expertise, taking into account geographical diversity and the equal participation of women and men.

The Mechanism is headed by an Assistant Secretary-General, Edmond Mulet, with overall responsibility, and two deputies with responsibilities for investigative and political matters, respectively. Those three positions constitute the Leadership Panel of the Mechanism. The Political Office is based in New York, with a liaison officer in Damascus, and provides, interalia, political analysis, legal advice, liaison, and media and information management support.

The Planning and Operations Support Office is based in New York and provides administrative, logistical and planning support to the political and investigative components. Other chemical weapons CW agents and TIC have been employed in various locations within Syria outside of the period of time assessed in this briefing. Source: ARES. These weapons are propelled by solid-fuel Nonetheless, the true value of these weapons to rocket motors obtained from industrially-produced the Assad regime lies in their ability to instil terror.

The estimated It is also noteworthy that two separate branches of the range is around 2 km5. The base of the rocket motor Syrian armed forces — the Syrian Arab Army and the contains six venturis canted at an angle, which Syrian Arab Air Force — have both delivered chlorine provides spin stabilisation in flight. This is augmented attacks, further supporting the well-established by an improvised fin assembly with six cropped- pattern of chemical weapons usage by the Syrian delta fins reinforced by a ring aerofoil.

The assembly government. These often technical function of these two designs of improvised dislodge during impact allowing the entire assembly munitions delivering TIC payloads. This assessment to slide forward, scraping a distinctive pattern into draws on existing ARES reports; open and closed remnant bodies. They are typically inaccurate and imprecise munitions with a short range relative to the size of their rocket motor. Some examples feature launchers where the rocket motor is loaded into a launch tube or rail assembly with the payload section protruding.

Accuracy and precision are also likely to be affected negatively. This is fitted with a valve of the same type used but has not been confirmed. In all documented cases, to fill industrial pressure vessels see Figure 4. At the chemical agent appears to have been dispersed first glance, this feature may be confused for a point- passively after the munition is ruptured on impact.

This valve is frequently sheared encountered with point-detonating impact fuzes. The off during impact, and may not be readily located reason for this highlights their particular genealogy that among the munition remnants.

These munitions proved so unstable another. On their HE counterparts, these function in flight that they were fitted with two time fuzes at as wells for base-detonating fuzes. However, the the base of the payload section, rather than a nose- 6 These dimensions would result in a liquid i.

If filled with liquified chlorine, it would deliver a maximum volume of 7. Assuming a lethal concentration of ppm, this gives a maximum theoretical lethal volume of 9, m3, equivalent to the area of roughly 18 tennis courts at ground level.

In practice, however, the lethal area would be smaller, largely determined by the time taken for the munitions to release their payload ARES, Source: Cavagna Group, Italy.

Both time and impact fuzes have were taken from standard-production mm HE been fitted to IRAMs using this fuze well design. Unlike artillery rockets manufactured in Iran. These can be high explosive payloads, chemical payloads are often distinguished from similar rockets made elsewhere by likely to be dispersed even when the munition does not their tan color and distinctive markings. The markings function as intended.

For example, markings on munitions from In addition to eyewitness testimony; medical the 22 January and 1 February attacks of indicate analysis of affected victims; field chemical analysis; that the Iranian rocket motors were all produced in the presence of distinctive physical features such as , and are all from the same production lot reinforced pressure vessels and valve assemblies; see Figure 6.

Chlorine is consistent with available documentation of contained in a munition such as this is held under government multiple-barrel rocket launchers pressure; when the container is punctured — either MBRLs associated with this calibre of IRAM. These by explosive means or impact alone — the liquefied weapons are generally employed in conjunction chlorine vaporises.

During this process, rapid with conventional air and artillery bombardment. As cooling of the container occurs, causing adjacent a result of its poor aerodynamic profile and crude humid air to form a frost on the container. This assembly, this rocket design is particularly inaccurate process, known as auto-refrigeration, indicates that and imprecise.