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NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Page 6A Friday, October 27, 2017 U.N. experts blame Syria for chemical weapons attack in April By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Experts from the U.N. and the chemical weapons watchdog are blaming Syria’s government for a sarin nerve gas attack that killed over 90 people last April. Their report, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, says leaders of the expert body are “confident that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, 2017.” The report supports the initial findings by the United States, France and Britain that a Syrian military plane dropped a bomb with sarin on the town. Syria and Russia, its close ally, have denied any attack and have strongly criticized the Joint Investigative Mech- anism, known as the JIM, which was established by the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to determine respon- sibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. The attack in Khan Sheikhoun sparked outrage around the world as photos and video of the aftermath, including quivering children dying on camera, were widely broadcast. The United States blamed the Syrian military and launched a punitive strike days later on the Shayrat air base, where it said the attack was launched. Responding to the report, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said: “Today’s report confirms what we have long known to be true. Time and again, we see independent confirmation of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime.” Clearly referring to Russia, she said: “In spite of these independent reports, we still see some countries trying to protect the regime. That must end now.” The Security Council Kim Haughton/The United Nations via AP In this photo provided by the United Nations, the U.N. Security Council meets on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, at U.N. headquarters, Thursday. Experts from the U.N. and the chemical weapons watchdog are blaming the Syrian government for an attack in April 2017 using the nerve gas sarin that killed over 90 people. “Today’s report confirms what we have long known to be true. Time and again, we see independent confirmation of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime.” — Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador should make it clear that “the use of chemical weapons by anyone will not be tolerated,” Haley said. A fact-finding mission by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported June 30 that sarin was used in the Khan Sheikhoun attack and “sulfur mustard” in Um Hosh. But the JIM experts had the task of determining who conducted the attacks. The JIM experts said Thursday they are “confident” the Islamic State extremist group was responsible for an attack in Um Hosh in Aleppo on Sept. 15-16, 2016, that used “sulfur mustard,” the chemical weapon commonly known as mustard gas. In addition to blaming the Syrian government and the IS group, the JIM report says, “The continuing use of chemical weapons, including by non-state actors, is deeply disturbing.” The report was issued two days after Russia vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution to extend the mandate of the JIM investigators for another year after it expires Nov. 17. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Moscow wanted to wait for the JIM report. “We can mean- ingfully negotiate the renewal of JIM after we have seen the report,” he told reporters Thursday before it came out. Russia’s U.N. mission had no immediate comment on the report. Haley said countries that don’t support the JIM experts “are no better than the dicta- tors or terrorists who use these terrible weapons.” The investigators deter- mined last year that the Syrian government was behind at least three attacks involving chlorine gas and that the Islamic State extremist group was responsible for at least one involving mustard gas. Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director for Human Rights Watch, said: “The question now is whether Security Council and OPCW members, including Russia, will move to protect a key international rule and hold Syrian authorities accountable as they said they would.” The report said the JIM experts talked with 17 witnesses in addition to those interviewed by the OPCW fact-finding mission and collected and reviewed mate- rial the OPCW did not have. It said the experts also obtained “substantial information” on activities by the Syrian air force on April 4. BRIEFLY Georgia election server wiped after suit filed A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned. The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case that was later obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe. The lawsuit, filed July 3 by a diverse group of election reform advocates, aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized election technology. The server in question, which served as a statewide staging location for key election-related data, made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn’t fixed six months after he reported it to election authorities. Trump signs $36.5 billion emergency aid bill for disasters WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a $36.5 billion emergency aid measure on Thursday to refill disaster accounts, provide a cash infusion to Puerto Rico and bail out the federal flood insurance program. 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