At any rate, Syria needed no help with its Chemical program. They could have utilized help however with their Biological and Nuclear programs.
These are probably Saddams WMD’s. After Bush threatened Saddam with war, I remember being at the Queen’s birthday party at STRATCOM and heard everyone talking the wmd’s being moved into Syria. Of course we knew they moved them & that is why we could not find very much.
Syria's chemical weapons, and beyond
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Operations at the end of the First Gulf War provide a sense of the scale of the chemical weapon problem. The U.N. Special Commission supervised the destruction of tens of thousands of filled and unfilled chemical munitions, 295 metric tons of mustard gas, and 116 metric tons of tabun and sarin nerve gases. Even with Iraqi cooperation of a grudging sort, finding, collecting, and destroying these items took years.
For Saddam's Iraq, today's Syria, and other nations that have envisaged waging tactical chemical warfare, one has to think in industrial-scale terms. The chemical stocks are likely measured in hundreds of tons, distributed to multiple sites for strategic and safety reasons, and protected by units particularly loyal to the regime. Disposing of them is likely to require industrial-scale destruction operations that would require industrial facilities and time.
The urgency of securing such materials during operations was highlighted by an incident in the second Iraq War.
In October 2004, the interim Iraqi government reported that nearly 400 tons of high-quality explosives under International Atomic Energy Agency supervision prior to the U.S. invasion had vanished from an industrial facility at Al Qa'qaa during the American occupation. In 2003, the Al-Qa'qaa industrial area covered about 28 square kilometers (10.8 square miles) with more than 1,000 structures engaged in multiple military-related activities. Within the facility, the IAEA had identified and secured with its seals bunkers that contained about 195 metric tons of HMX, 141 metric tons of RDX, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN - all high-grade military explosives with dual-use potential for explosive compression in a nuclear device (which was why they had been under IAEA supervision).
American forces fought through the area in the first week of April 2003, dispersing whatever Iraqi forces had guarded the facility. The site was unguarded until the 75th Exploitation Task Force arrived at the end of May. In the intervening weeks, the explosives, along with virtually everything else of value in the facility, had disappeared with successive waves of looters - many of whom arrived with cranes and trucks. Quite possibly, the looters were insiders who knew what they were taking and exactly who might be interested in high-quality, dual-use explosives.
Syria has been in the WMD business at least since they got their butts handed to them in 1973. They’ve had help from every evil government that graces the planet. Even German industrialists that want to finish the job for Hitler have helped them.
This is not news, it’s practically ancient history and the fact it’s being brought up like this just boggles my mind and must have every Israeli crying at the world’s Alzheimer’s disease.
Syria has been in the WMD business at least since they got their butts handed to them in 1973. They’ve had help from every evil government that graces the planet. Even German industrialists that want to finish the job for Hitler have helped them.
This is not news, it’s practically ancient history and the fact it’s being brought up like this just boggles my mind and must have every Israeli crying at the world’s Alzheimer’s disease.
Syria has been in the WMD business at least since they got their butts handed to them in 1973. They’ve had help from every evil government that graces the planet. Even German industrialists that want to finish the job for Hitler have helped them.
This is not news, it’s practically ancient history and the fact it’s being brought up like this just boggles my mind and must have every Israeli crying at the world’s Alzheimer’s disease.
If the MSM acknowledged those shipments, they would have to acknowledge Geo. Bush was right.
They will never admit that.
Also, some CW artillery shells were discovered but the MSM discounted them 'Aw, those old things?'.