{"id":14511,"date":"2013-09-18T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:36:51","slug":"u-n-calculations-of-poison-rockets-paths-implicate-syrian-guard-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/18\/u-n-calculations-of-poison-rockets-paths-implicate-syrian-guard-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. calculations of poison rockets\u2019 paths implicate Syrian guard unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>McClatchy<\/em> has the story <a title=\"McClatchy News article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/09\/17\/202429\/un-calculations-of-poison-rockets.html#emlnl=Daily_News_Update\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>U.N. calculations of poison rockets\u2019 paths implicate Syrian guard unit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the U.N. inspectors correctly calculated the trajectories, it certainly seems to indicate that the chemically armed rockets were fired from government-controlled land,\u201d said <a title=\"Peter Bouckaert bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/bios\/peter-bouckaert\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Bouckaert<\/strong><\/a>, Human Rights Watch emergencies director and weapons expert. \u201cIt\u2019s clear and convincing evidence.\u201d<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Austin Long bio\" href=\"http:\/\/polisci.columbia.edu\/people\/profile\/335\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Long<\/strong><\/a>, a security and weapons expert at Columbia University, said his back-of-an-envelope tabulations since the U.N. report came out indicated that the Republican Guard, which is thought to control the chemical stockpiles, very likely moved one rocket system to a secure location near the base and launched.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have given you links to the biographies of the experts quoted in the article.\u00a0 Perhaps this will help you to figure out if these are trustworthy experts.\u00a0 In this house of\u00a0 cards it is hard to figure out whom to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy has the story U.N. calculations of poison rockets\u2019 paths implicate Syrian guard unit. \u201cIf the U.N. inspectors correctly calculated the trajectories, it certainly seems to indicate that the chemically armed rockets were fired from government-controlled land,\u201d said Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch emergencies director and weapons expert. \u201cIt\u2019s clear and convincing evidence.\u201d . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}