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U.S. Concerned as Syria Moves Chemical Stockpile
WSJ ^ | Updated July 12, 2012, 10:29 p.m. ET

Posted on 07/12/2012 7:39:28 PM PDT by Perdogg

Syria has begun moving parts of its vast arsenal of chemical weapons out of storage facilities, U.S. officials said, in a development that has alarmed many in Washington.

The country's undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide have long worried U.S. officials and their allies in the region, who have watched anxiously amid the conflict in Syria for any change in the status or location of the weapons.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: bekaahvalley; cyanide; mustard; sarin; syria; wmd
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1 posted on 07/12/2012 7:39:31 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Saddam’s Chemicals


2 posted on 07/12/2012 7:43:08 PM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Bekaaa! Bekaaa! (/crow)

probably nothing.. yup.


3 posted on 07/12/2012 7:43:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Perdogg
Satellite photos before the Iraq war showed that Sadaam was moving his WMDs into Syria in the weeks before the attack.Maybe we'll get to see *those* as Syria continues to implode.
4 posted on 07/12/2012 7:44:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President Of My Lifetime)
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To: scooby321

(You saved me a post!!)


5 posted on 07/12/2012 7:45:24 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: scooby321

“Saddam’s Chemicals”

Exactly...My first thought when seeing the title.


6 posted on 07/12/2012 7:48:47 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: scooby321

Couldn’t be. Remember? The press told us that Saddam didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction. It was all a lie by that evil Boooosh!


7 posted on 07/12/2012 7:49:27 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: SJackson

I hope our friends in Jerusalem are paying close attention.


8 posted on 07/12/2012 7:50:41 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Perdogg

And the WH is OK with the MuzBros getting these instead?


9 posted on 07/12/2012 7:53:03 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Perdogg

Oh, Hussein’s chemical weapons being moved.


10 posted on 07/12/2012 7:54:23 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Perdogg

I am sure they are just innocent pharmaceuticals.


11 posted on 07/12/2012 7:54:29 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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12 posted on 07/12/2012 7:59:16 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Baby milk ingredients no doubt.


14 posted on 07/12/2012 7:59:24 PM PDT by phoneman08 (Reagan conservative union member. Not a s rare as you think!)
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To: Perdogg

bflr


15 posted on 07/12/2012 8:15:31 PM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: F15Eagle

Syria has had a massive CW program since the early 1970s.


16 posted on 07/12/2012 8:19:07 PM PDT by Strategerist
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Syria has begun moving parts of its vast arsenal of chemical weapons out of storage facilities

Gee, it would be horrible if they were to all mysteriously blow up...Wouldn't it.

18 posted on 07/12/2012 8:23:26 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: Perdogg

So Syria has WMDs??

huh - how bout that?

Wonder where they came from.
I wonder................


19 posted on 07/12/2012 9:01:19 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

And winning the “I didn’t read any of the replies” award for this thread...


20 posted on 07/12/2012 9:29:37 PM PDT by Strategerist
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