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Syrian defector: Assad forces using chemical weapons
Ynet ^ | Elior Levy

Posted on 02/13/2012 1:37:08 PM PST by maquiladora

Security forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have been using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels, under the supervision of Iranian and Russian experts, a defecting Syrian officer charged Monday.

The officer, Captain Abd al-Salam Ahmed Abdul Razek, who served in Syrian's chemical warfare administration, told al-Arabiya that the Syrian military used nerve gas – banned by various international conventions – in order to assist forces in their raid on the restive city of Homs.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; syria
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1 posted on 02/13/2012 1:37:17 PM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora

Oh...unlocked the stuff Russia transported from Iraq?


2 posted on 02/13/2012 1:40:13 PM PST by G Larry (We are NOT obliged to carry the snake in our pocket and then dismiss the bites as natural behavior.)
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To: maquiladora

If they will use them on their own people, guess what they will use on Israel.


3 posted on 02/13/2012 1:40:39 PM PST by RC2
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To: maquiladora

Lets see one group of terrorists who hate America are using chemical weapons to wipe out another group of terrorists who hate America. Trying to give a darn and .... failing. Hope they wipe each other out to the last.


4 posted on 02/13/2012 1:45:11 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: G Larry

The stuff that didn’t exist???


5 posted on 02/13/2012 1:46:10 PM PST by Adder (Da bro has GOT to go!)
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To: GonzoGOP

Don’t believe this garbage. The opposition are lying because they want the stupid infidels to come fight their war for them. I don’t trust anything the muslims say. They’re commanded by their faith to lie to non-muslims.


6 posted on 02/13/2012 1:48:01 PM PST by bigdirty
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To: G Larry

Syria has been producing chemical weapons since 1973, has one of the most advanced chemical weapons program in the world.

Sarin, mustard gas, VX, you name it.


7 posted on 02/13/2012 1:51:11 PM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora

Arabs killing arabs. If it were legal I’d ship them a trailer load of VX to each side myself.


8 posted on 02/13/2012 1:52:33 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: maquiladora

The Muslim Brotherhood will someday use chemical weapons. It’s a lose/lose situation for us. The best thing we can do is refuse to send anymore money to Islamic nations, and let them settle their own problems.


9 posted on 02/13/2012 1:53:50 PM PST by pallis
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To: maquiladora

If this is true, we’ll have to do something about it... therefore, it won’t be true.


10 posted on 02/13/2012 1:55:46 PM PST by Grut
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Assad’s father used gas in Homs a few decades ago, and killed about 10,000 people putting down a revolt.

No surprises here...


11 posted on 02/13/2012 1:57:53 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: maquiladora

Quick! Somebody call Peter Arnett!


12 posted on 02/13/2012 2:00:16 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: maquiladora
Syria has been producing chemical weapons since 1973, has one of the most advanced chemical weapons program in the world.

I hate to be Master of the Friggin' Obvious then, but why were we so concerned with an Iraqi program which may or may not have existed, while continuing to ignore this?

13 posted on 02/13/2012 2:09:11 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Because when Clinton took out the Pharma Factory in The Sudan it was reported that only Iraq had an active VX program going.


14 posted on 02/13/2012 2:18:30 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Because when Clinton took out the Pharma Factory in The Sudan it was reported that only Iraq had an active VX program going.


15 posted on 02/13/2012 2:18:57 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: maquiladora

This is where Saddam’s stash went, btw.


16 posted on 02/13/2012 2:35:14 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: maquiladora

Where is Hans Blix when the world needs him.... yes this is sarcasm.


17 posted on 02/13/2012 2:39:45 PM PST by badpacifist (May the odds be ever in your favor)
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To: maquiladora

Yep!

Doesn’t mean I’m wrong......


18 posted on 02/13/2012 3:18:03 PM PST by G Larry (We are NOT obliged to carry the snake in our pocket and then dismiss the bites as natural behavior.)
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To: bigdirty

When a group of bloodthirsty, radical Islamists announces to the world that they intend to brutally slaughter a dictator’s wife and children as the Syrian rebels did, they should no be surprised when said dictator uses whatever means are necessary to prevent them doing so.


19 posted on 02/13/2012 3:21:16 PM PST by hampdenkid
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Where is Hans Blix when the world needs him..

He's still driving in circles in a hipee van somewhere.

20 posted on 02/13/2012 3:23:55 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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