[secretagent]

jwalburg: Good to caution us about Newsmax and its misleading cite of Abdullah's remarks to the SF Chronicle - thanks for the link.

The SF Chronicle doesn't mention chemical weapons or poison gas at all, rather 17.5 tons of unnamed "high explosive".

Newsmax then speculates that the the "chemical weapons and poison gas" came from Iraq originally, except that it has no apparent basis for claiming that "chemical weapons and poison gas" entered Jordan. Abdullah didn't claim that in the SFC article.

Newsmax apparently lied on this or got sloppy.

[Eternal_Bear]

Newsmax probably confused fertilizer with chemicals. That is incredibly stupid but story is still very serious and constitutes a casus belli if the syrians knew about it.

[Rik0Shay]

explosives are chemical weapons