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Independent reports from the field and from Aleppo Medical Council indicated that the Gas caused respiratory and neurologic symptoms and death. Doctors who treated the patients in the Aleppo university hospital and Al-Rajaa hospital think that the Gas used caused Cholinergic effects that can be reversed by Physostigmine.According to Aleppo medical council, doctors from the field described the presenting signs and symptoms as following: acute bronchospasm, acute respiratory distress and pulmonary edema required intubation, hypotension and severe miosis (pinpoint pupils). Patients were treated with Atropine, oxygen and mechanical ventilation. -- SAMS condemns the use of chemical weapons and calls for protection of civilians: (SAMS) Syrian American Medical Society.

Assad’s regime carried out deadly bombings, uses media to direct blame on rebels - Chemical attacks, same strategy?

• Al Arabiya - Global Terrorist Threat Outlined by Intelligence Documents: HRI, 2 October 2012.

If extremist rebel forces did perpetrate the chemical weapons attack, this means CBRNE weapons have been transfered to transnational terrorist groups, transitioning the Syrian humanitarian catastrophe into an international security emergency.


2 October 2012

Contact: Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net

H-II OPSEC
Url: www.H-II.org


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Al Arabiya - Global Terrorist Threat Outlined by Intelligence Documents

Al Arabiya has reported on official Syrian military documents that outline the source of terrorist attacks within Syria, information warfare and heightened threat for UN member countries:

• Assad’s regime carried out deadly Damascus bombings: leaked files: Al Arabiya, 30 September 2012.

All countries remain on heightened alert, in response to the movement and potential transfer of chemical and biological weapons, to transnational terrorist organizations.  In February, Syria retaliated against the West by freeing London bombings ‘mastermind’ (Al Arabiya, 5 February 2012).

Weapons of Mass Destruction

• Syria: CBRNE Chemical - Biological - Nuclear Crisis Discussions: HRI,  January 2013.
• Syria: The War Against Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: HRI: Humanitarian Intervention Initiative, 23 April 2012.

Additional CBRN References

• CBRN - Syria's WMD Discussions - In The News: Blair, Charles P., Federation of American Scientists.
• CBRN - Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Syria: ACA Factsheet.
• CBRN - Syria's Bio-Warfare Threat: an interview with Dr. Jill Dekker:  New English Review, December 2007.
• CBRN - Syrian Official’s Statement on W.M.D: NYT, 23 July 2012.
• CBRN - Syrian Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Overview: Center for Strategic & International Studies, 6.2.2008.
• CBRN - Syrian Army Spotted Testing Chemical Arms Firing Units, Magazine Reports: NTI, 18 September 2012.
• CBRN Profile: Syria Chemical Weapons - Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Priority Medical Training

• Civilian High Threat Pre-Hospital care - DHHS - DPS: HRI:H-II: Pathobiologics. 19 September 2012.

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