Amateur videos show police in Bahrain shooting gas grenades into houses – a practice banned under international law. As the houses fill with suffocating tear gas, seniors and children die first. At least 39 people are known to have died like this – a small figure in comparison to the 1,400 Syrians killed by Sarin gas last summer. But both attacks shared one thing in common – the chemicals were later traced back to Europe.
This investigation goes worldwide to reveal how Bashar al-Assad, the dictatorship in Bahrain and Saddam Hussein were all able to buy and make weapons prohibited by the international community.
The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the war in Vietnam. Today, all over the world, a primary component of that toxic herbicide controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks—even on children’s playgrounds. The chemical wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.
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Is the Assad regime using chemical weapons against its own people? Have they crossed the famous ‘red line’ defined by Barack Obama?
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