Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Good point.

One wonders about the extent of US satellite/radar coverage - you'd imagine that it would be pretty well constant in that area, so surely they'd have a record of aircraft launching and heading to the site of the attack?
Oh, yes. I don't think there can be any serious doubts the Assad forces did this. It's just a question of how and why. And, as any student of military history knows, one underestimates the capacity for people ballsing things up in war at one's peril.