Retrieved and read 12 August 2026 under the D-046 Part One sweep || HELD. Retrieved 1 September 2026 by plain HTTP GET with a browser User-Agent, HTTP 200, 250311 bytes, SHA-256 049fea5b1a57efb3..., at research/retrieved/SRC-065_atlanticcouncil.org.html. The capture terminates correctly. THIS ROW PREVIOUSLY CARRIED AN ADDRESS AND NO HELD FILE, so anything it recorded as read could not be checked by anyone; it can now.
Claims
CH1-007; CH1-009
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
RETRIEVED UNDER D-046 AND IT FALSIFIES A PRINTED CLAIM. Verbatim: 'The estimated cost of rebuilding the country ranges between $250 billion and $400 billion'. The article cites no source for it. WHY IT MATTERS: the EPRS briefing at SRC-021 links the word 'cost', in its sentence 'the cost of rebuilding the country could range from US$250 billion to US$923 billion', to THIS article, and links the range string itself to the UNDP assessment, which contains no occurrence of 250. Both anchors confirmed at word level on 12 August 2026. SO THE BRIEFING'S RANGE IS SPLICED: the floor comes from this commentary and the ceiling from a conflict-cost assessment, and no single source publishes the range as printed. Chapter 1 line 83 says the lower end 'has no parent' and that which source the briefing had in mind 'cannot be established from the document'. Both are now false; the parent is linked in the same sentence. Held for the Chapter 1 correction pass. The correction makes the chase sharper, not weaker. SEPARATE QUESTION NOT ANSWERED BY THIS DOCUMENT: $250 to $400 billion is also the range the first edition used, which raises a shared-ancestor question this row does not settle.
D-233/D-234 compression pass (00), 27 September 2026: CURRENT NOTES END: 'SEPARATE QUESTION NOT ANSWERED BY THIS DOCUMENT: $250 to $400 billion is also the range the first edition used, which raises a shared-ancestor question this row does not settle.' APPEND (D-234 item 1, 26 September 2026): the question is settled on the author's statement. Rewriting the Rules took the US$250 billion to US$400 billion range from this commentary; the commentary gives no source for it (the word 'rebuilding' in the range sentence links to about:blank, re-opened in the held capture 27 September 2026). Rewriting the Rules printed the range uncited (its source lines 125 and 175; its reference list at line 2015 cites a different Atlantic Council report). The introduction (00:3 and 00:5 from v36) states this. Proposed here because D-234 requires the row to record it; the main session may already be making this amendment.
D-233/D-234 compression pass (01), 27 September 2026:
D-234, 26 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND CHAPTER 1 LINE 87 (COMPRESSION EXECUTION UNIT 01, 27 SEPTEMBER 2026). The shared-ancestor question at the end of this row is answered on the author's statement recorded at D-234 item 1: Rewriting the Rules took the US$250 billion to US$400 billion range from this commentary, and printed it (its lines 125, 'expected to cost between $250 and $400 billion', and 175, 'the estimated $250-$400 billion') without citing it; its reference list cites a different Atlantic Council report (Idlib, Lister and Forestier, its line 2015). The held file was re-opened on 27 September 2026: the range sentence is the article's only mention of the range, and reads in full 'The estimated cost of rebuilding the country ranges between $250 billion and $400 billion—figures that, given the extensive damage to the country’s infrastructure, appear increasingly accurate.' The word 'rebuilding' in it carries a link whose target is empty (href about:blank), so the article gives no source for the range. Chapter 1 line 87 (the draft after v56) now quotes 'appear increasingly accurate' and states the provenance. TWO STALE POINTS IN THIS ROW, FOR THE MAIN SESSION: the Notes still say 'Chapter 1 line 83 says the lower end "has no parent"', which describes a superseded version; and the Citation's title, 'Dispatch from Damascus: challenges of rebuilding in Syria', differs from the held page's headline, 'Dispatch from Damascus: The challenges of rebuilding are becoming clearer in Syria' (the URL slug is dispatch-from-damascus-challenges-of-rebuilding-in-syria); the works cited prints the Citation.
Publication-day capture checked, 28 September 2026 (01 review M-1; 00 review M-2): the Wayback CDX index lists captures from 20250103191751 onward; the capture of 20250103192155 (18 minutes after the page's datePublished, 2025-01-03T19:03:29+00:00; dateModified 2025-01-03T19:03:34+00:00) was retrieved raw (id_) by HTTP GET, 195304 bytes, SHA-256 f91f9a053b30191f..., held at research/retrieved/SRC-065_wayback_20250103192155.html. Its sentence reads verbatim 'The estimated cost of <a href="about:blank">rebuilding</a> the country ranges between $250 billion and $400 billion', so the only link in the range sentence pointed to about:blank on the day of publication, as it does in the capture of 1 September 2026. The commentary gives no source for the range from its first published state; the printed 'gives no source' stands.