None has been directly accused in the report, nevertheless Assad appears to be attack’s perpetrator given various verifications. Two are the relevant elements in the matter: the rocket’s likely trajectory and stabilizing chemical agents’ traces. Observing different sites UN inspectors deduced that the strike should be started from the north-west of Damascus, an area controlled by the army; and the chemical agents presence reveals that the rockets should have been assembled and kept in a monitored storage facility thus discarding the homemade bomb hypothesis.

These evidences have reinforced the international anti-Assad front: UN British ambassador Mark Lyall Grant declared that «there is no remaining doubt it was the regime that used chemical weapons», on the same line French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaking about the Sarin attack said that «it seems to leave no doubt that the regime is behind it», and last but not least US Secretary of State John Kerry affirmed that «should diplomacy fail, the military option is still on the table».

However, in practice the pacific and diplomatic solution seems to be an uphill road since, while the Washington-London-Paris axis blames Assad’s regime without reserve, China promises «a thorough review» on UN report and Russia let her doubts be known untrusting report’s analysis and asserting that no decision on military action should be taken without previously analysing every single evidence collected on August 21 events. The game is still on. 

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