...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
that
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
still has the ability to produce toxic weapons despite international efforts to dismantle Syria's chemical arsenal.
"We have at least 14 indications that show us that in the past recent weeks again chemical weapons in a smaller scale have been used, in particular chlorine," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told a news conference speaking through an interpreter. "Right now we are examining the samples that were taken," he added.
Fabius said the Assad government had handed over 92 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile under an international agreement being overseen by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
But he said the recent chemical weapons reports involving chlorine showed the Assad government still had the ability to produce chemical weapons.
"What it shows is that (the) Bashir al-Assad regime in spite of its commitment continues to be able to produce chemical weapons and to use them," he said.
The watchdog Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is currently considering launching a fact-finding mission on its own to investigate the reports of chlorine gas attacks, sources told Rooters last month.