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Pentagon confirmed it was authorising use of “non-lethal” gases

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..the Pentagon confirmed it was authorising use of non-lethal” gases of the type used in last October’s disastrous Moscow theatre siege — a move that has already provoked accusations of hypocrisy by a country that claims to be at war to prevent chemical weapons being used.

From theindependent, and commented on in Taking The Gloves Off, where it says:

In accordance with my USMC training, I’d always been told that ALL chemical weapons, including non-lethal riot control style” agents were strictly forbidden in combat according to the UN Chemical Weapons Convention.

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