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    Courtesy Independent.

    Government let British company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria

    UK accused of 'breath-taking laxity' over export license for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride

    The Government was accused of "breathtaking laxity" in its arms controls tonight after it emerged

    that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve

    agent such as sarin a year ago.

    The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will on Monday be asked by MPs to explain why a British

    company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six months in 2012 while

    Syria's civil war was raging and concern was rife that the regime could use chemical weapons

    on its own people. The disclosure of the licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which

    can both be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary

    of State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in last month's

    atrocity in Damascus.

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