UN inspectors have left Syria.

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Inspectors left Syria, Obama has not yet made a decision

UN inspectors have left Syria. Ban Ki Mun said that the final report of the UN inspectors should be 14 days. John Kerry says he is going inspector opens an opportunity for intervention.

UN experts, who had been investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, have left Damascus and arrived on Saturday morning (08.30.2013.) In Lebanon. The six vehicles with UN markings and accompanied by Lebanese security forces, ten UN inspectors crossed the border around 7:40, local time.

Inspectors from the UN of 18 August stayed in Syria, but from last Monday (26.8.) attention to the collection of samples from locations around Damascus, where, according to the Syrian opposition, was an attack by chemical weapons 21st August.

UN spokesman Martin Nesirki previously said that the samples from the field in Syria will be sent to several laboratories in Europe. Nesirki said that a team of inspectors also visited a military hospital in Damascus to discuss the Syrian government's accusations that dozens of soldiers were victims of chemical weapons, which the government accuses the rebels.

Secretary General Ban Ki Mun said that the final report of the UN inspectors need to be two weeks.

Obama has not yet made a final decision

Barak Obama speaks on Syria (08/30/2013).
Barak Obama speaks on Syria (08/30/2013).

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday (30.08.) That has not yet taken a final decision on Syria, but to consider "narrowly limited effect" due to chemical attack. Obama said in Washington that the chemical attacks in Syria is a "challenge to the world," but to threaten U.S. national interests.

Obama said he recognizes that the world and in the U.S. there is a suspicion of the war in Syria, but that the United States, "as a world leader," have a duty to act if a country violates international norms. He said he would prefer that the operations in Syria to be multilateral in character, but that Washington does not want "the world is paralyzed."

The U.S. president also said that the UN Security Council is unable to act when it comes to Syria.

John Kerry and the White House report

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the departure of UN inspectors opened an opportunity for intervention in Syria.

Keri said that there are "clear" and "strong" evidence that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used poison gas against civilians.

The White House released a report on the four sides, which states that the U.S. government, according to sources and intercepts, concluded that Asadov regime 21st August "brought an attack by chemical weapons" in a suburb of Damascus.

U.S. estimate that the chemical attack killed 1,429 people, of which at least 426 children.

John Kerry on Syria in the State of Department (30.08.2013.)
John Kerry on Syria in the State of Department (30.08.2013.)

Keri said that the people of the Syrian regime for preparing three days before the attack were in a place where the attack took place. He said that people close RAZIM fluvial to prepare gas masks. He added that the U.S. knows where the rockets were launched. The report estimates that the possibility that the opposition in Syria responsible for the attack "extremely small."

Keri said that the Obama administration has "great confidence" in the intelligence and said that the authorities in Washington carefully verified data to avoid mistakes that preceded the Iraq war. "It will not happen again," he added.