[FluffyKitty]

Based on the information in the article, the following items would have been required to stage something like this:

- Foreknowledge of the bombing by the Syrian/Russian coalition, including time and place.

- A high probability that there would be many people suffering from hypoxia following the bombing.

- False canisters ready to be deployed to the area.

While not wholly impossible, it does seem unlikely to me, and as such I believe that the headline is a bit of a stretch.

I think it would be more accurate to focus on OPCW and they way it compiles and presents it's findings.

[a0-prw]

The area was under attack so it was being regularly shelled - not hard to predict.

Survivors do often have breathing problems after being in or near buildings that are bombed. The air is full of dust.

And of course, since the terrorists in Syria want(ed) the US to bomb the government, they could easily have planted the canisters.

[mlazos]

I find it interesting that you use the word terrorists to describe the rebels in Syria. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. The fact that this government is fine with the killing of its own people en masse with conventional weapons is enough for me to say the difference isn’t black and white.

[cannedslime]

There is this saying I heard, Im not sure about the validity, but here goes: "ISIS poses with decapitated heads, FSA plays soccer with them".

Just because you slap "FREEDOM" on your terror organisation and is possibly sponsored by the CIA, doesn't excuse you of atrocities.

[a0-prw]

I find it interesting that you ignore the argument and present an emotional appeal and that you use the metaphor "one man's terrorist ..." which is a refactoring of "one man's meat is another's poison" that is actually false.