Even heart valve problems, a worry because Arena shares part of the chemical mechanism of the withdrawn valve-harming diet drug fenfluramine, could be an issue.

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Jamal al Ward, head of the military office of the Syrian Coalition, said the opposition has "no chemical substances and no mechanism for producing" such weapons.

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Critics contend the crystals could have been formed by some other mechanism not requiring life, such as chemical action.

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