Syrian chemical weapons personnel under the chain of command of the Syrian Ministry of Defense prepared for three days before Syrian military units, instructed to don gas masks, fired rockets containing nerve gas into opposition-held villages in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, killing over 1,400 people in the largest chemical weapons attack in a quarter century, the United States said Friday.
"The primary question is really no longer: What do we know?" Secretary of State John Kerry said in a powerful call to action from the State Department Friday, as the US released a declassified, four-page intelligence assessment on the attack. "The question is: What are...we in the world going to do about it?"
