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Antony Blinken: “Assad, we believe, and we have the intelligence and evidence to back this up, is in control of the chemical weapons…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2013
Assad, we believe, and we have the intelligence and evidence to back this up, is in control of the chemical weapons program. And would have -- let me put it this way. Any standing orders to use these weapons would have been issued by Assad.
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Antony Blinken
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Tony Blinken asserts that Assad controls the chemical weapons program and would have issued orders to use them.

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