Posted on 07/24/2012 5:15:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Syria's rebels late Monday charged the regime has moved its chemical weapon stockpiles to airports and airbases on its borders with neighboring countries.
“We in the joint command of the Free Syrian Army inside the country know very well the locations and positions of these weapons," Syria's largest rebel group said in a statement.
“We also reveal that Assad has transferred some of these weapons and equipment for mixing chemical components to airports on the border,” it added. The move comes just one day after the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad warned it could use unconventional weapons if attacked by "an outside force."
Analysts say, if true, that moving the weapons is likely a bid by Damascus to pressure the international community, which is at loggerheads over whether to intervene in 16-months of slaughter in Syria.
Western powers and their Gulf Arab allies have called for an end to Assad's reign, and pressed for comprehensive international sanctions or even direct intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Five Syria Nightmares: The Middle East Can’t Live with Assad, but Living Without Him Won’t Be Easy
It almost sounds as if this guy doesn’t want Assad to fall.
Also revealed again, Islam is a festering blight across the region.
Thanks for the link.
That's a valid question. Of course there isn't a good answer. The U. S. doesn't have to go to war with Iran to support the rebels there. We do have to deal with the Resident to get anything done though.
Syria has been a major supplier to Hezbollah. Iran was supplying Syria too IMO.
Assad needed to go. I don't think Syria is going to be a road block or enabler to actions in Jordan or other nations in the region. It's pretty clear the Muslim Brotherhood has it sights on a number of nations in the region.
Most of the concerns focused upon will take place with or without Assad. Will the Muslim Brotherhood supply Hezbollah? Perhaps so. Do we have a dog in this hunt? I'm not convinced we do. If there is a long list of things that may go bad with Assads fall, I'll be there's just as long a list if he remains in power.
So is Huma running US foreign policy in the Middle East ?
For all we know... ;^)
The Russians don’t want Assad to use chemical weapons because they know Russia will be blamed for it if he does, and that Russia will deserve that blame.
Oh!
I thought we sold the chemicals to Saddam Hussein.
Yeah, we can always blast em. (to borrow a term from Yosemite Sam)
You thought wrong.
Published on Sunday, September 8, 2002 by the Sunday Herald (Scotland)
Reports by the US Senate’s committee on banking, housing and urban affairs — which oversees American exports policy — reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene
Assad rules only with Russia's blessing. The blood he sheds is on Russia's hands. Russia is directly responsible for everything that is happening in Syria, and when Assad's falls, it will be Russia's own fault.
War is the health of The State.
Seen The State getting smaller lately?
They did. That's why there's plenty of room for the chemical weapons; no books.
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