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Source: http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/23/u-s-and-europe-say-assad-may-have-kept-some-chemical-weapons/
U.S. and Europe Say Assad May Have Kept Some Chemical Weapons
(Foreign Policy) Colum Lynch and David Kenner - The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has repeatedly found traces of deadly nerve agents in laboratories that Syria insisted were never part of its chemical weapons program. The discoveries of precursors for chemical warfare agents like soman and VX at several undeclared facilities, including two on the outskirts of Damascus, underscored what OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu describes as a troubling pattern of incomplete and inaccurate Syrian disclosures about the scope of the country's chemical weapons program. The U.S. suspects that the government may be seeking to retain a limited capacity of nerve agents and other lethal toxins to use against Syrian rebels.