While only 60,000 would die immediately, the city would suffer severe damage to its infrastructure, leaving it unable to cope with the hundreds of thousands left suffering in the aftermath.
The bishop was left suffering from a serious head injury after the ordeal.
She was eventually rescued but was left suffering from the effects of chemical burns from her waist down.
She was left suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and faced having her home repossessed and being made bankrupt.
The same combination of local political influence and lax control has also afflicted many banks in Germany and Spain, with taxpayers left suffering the consequences.
"We have indications that there was an attack with chemical weapons," a ministry spokesman said, saying many peshmerga fighters had reportedly been left suffering from respiratory irritation.
The gringos come and go – Weston abandoned Modotti and returned with a different love to California; Modotti was deported; Hartley left suffering from serious depression.
"We're an unlikely group of unwilling colleagues in a fraternity we never wanted to be in," he says, including the ever-growing national cohort of families left suffering in other shooting rampages in places like Aurora, Colo.
For instance, in 2011 in the north-east region of Colombia, the rain almost never stopped, and floods devastated the country, with hundreds of thousands of homes damaged and millions of people left suffering.
The readiness of the US to launch air strikes against Islamic State fighters in neighbouring Iraq to protect members of the Yazidi religious minority has caused further disappointment to those who once took to the streets calling for freedom and are now left suffering atrocities carried out by both Assad's forces and IS.
Roger Ailes may be dead, but the country is now left suffering through his legacy: a politics of resentment fueled by a stream of racist, sexist propaganda made palatable with a populist spin.
