UK says likely that Syria used British chemicals to make sarin gas

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it was likely that chemicals which British firms had legally exported to Syria in the 1980s had been used to manufacture nerve agents, including sarin gas.

In a written statement to parliament aimed at setting the historical record straight, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Britain had been reviewing records of dual use chemicals exported and now believed that some of them had been diverted to Syria's chemical weapons program.