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Syria loads chemical weapons into bombs; military awaits Assad's order
nbcnews.com ^ | December 5, 2012 | Jim Miklaszewski and M. Alex Johnson

Posted on 12/05/2012 4:03:49 PM PST by John W

The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday.

The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said.

As recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence that the process of mixing the "precursor" chemicals had begun. But Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnews.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201212; alevi; assad; baath; fascistbaath; gas; nervegas; precursors; sarin; saringas; syria; syriachemicalweapons; syrianwmd; syriawar
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To: M Kehoe
Call me crazy, but this is the stuff of Biblical prophecy.

Indeed, it is the stuff of Biblical prophecy. QED, you aren't crazy at all...

the infowarrior

81 posted on 12/05/2012 10:18:42 PM PST by infowarrior
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Let’s pay attention to the Lefwing cuckers in media and the Democrat party to see if they make reference to the Kurds.


82 posted on 12/05/2012 10:19:51 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Thanks for the links.

I know this: The article is far more plausible than blaming the Benghazi murders on some cheezy video that noone ever saw.

Nothing this administration says is true. Nothing.


83 posted on 12/05/2012 11:36:40 PM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: petitfour

During the Nixon Administration the phrase was “do you have the ‘correct’ information?”. Liars lie.


84 posted on 12/06/2012 12:17:24 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mojito

You can bet that they’re going to find WMD in Syria. They’ve got the cargo loaded and ready to fly in when needed.


85 posted on 12/06/2012 12:21:48 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: penelopesire

Why do you care what happens to Al Qaeda terrorists? Lets not get confused here, the people fighting against Assad, are Salafists, Al qaeda supporting terrorists.
Why are some ignorant idiots on FR constantly defending them?
You would expect this from DU retards, not here.
We had no business interfering and helping Al qaeda terrorists in taking over Syria and I understand if Assad will do anything possible to protect the Alawites and the Christians of Syria(YES THE CHRISTIANS)


86 posted on 12/06/2012 12:51:04 AM PST by hannibaal
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To: Old Grumpy

Heaven help us if he does cross the red line, and we do nothing. Better to be ambiguous, IMO, then to say things in public which will be used to show once again that we are all talk.


87 posted on 12/06/2012 1:08:36 AM PST by PghBaldy (Pete Hoekstra RE: Petraeus scandal - "There's more here than meets the eye.")
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To: M Kehoe

“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.”
- The Prophet Isaiah, chapter 17, verse 1


88 posted on 12/06/2012 5:13:33 AM PST by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: TheDon
Assad would be signing his death warrant by using such weapons.

He knows that, if he loses, he winds up like Qaddafi, and all his family, and all his Alawite co-religionists will be massacred.

The knowledge sets him free to do anything at all.

His sponsor, Iran, might even prefer his using nerve gas, as an example of what Iran might do if pushed up against the wall.

89 posted on 12/06/2012 5:25:26 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: hannibaal

My concern is for Israel.


90 posted on 12/06/2012 5:28:25 AM PST by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: infowarrior; M Kehoe

Syria as such, will cease to exist according to Biblical prophecy.

Sodom and Egypt will occupy the Holy City...

And somewhere North of Tel Aviv is a nuclear bunker built by the United States ....


91 posted on 12/06/2012 5:28:44 AM PST by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: Navy Patriot

No, no, no, see it’s much better to let all the chemical, biological and nuclear materials go into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Al Queda when Assad flees Syria. Keep our troops out lest they prevent the terrorist groups from obtaining these weapons!

/s


92 posted on 12/06/2012 5:50:16 AM PST by Justa
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To: penelopesire

My concern is for Israel.


You should also be concerned that Israel has dumped us in
reciprocation. If we were still allies, Assad wouldn’t have
gotten anywhere near this far.


93 posted on 12/06/2012 5:50:24 AM PST by txhurl (Zero on America: Drive it like you stole it)
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To: mojito

And the kicker is those are the chemical weapons that were in Iraq.


94 posted on 12/06/2012 5:59:18 AM PST by angcat
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To: txhurl

I don’t blame Israel for ‘dumping us’....dumping Obama. The man cannot be trusted to have Israel or the US best interests at heart. It is increasingly apparent that Obama is installing a caliphate of radical Muslims throughout the Middle East. My concern is not for Assad..but the fact that these weapons are going to fall into the hands of terrorists and probably already have because Obama has done nothing to secure or destroy them...he doesn’t want to. The sooner people realize that the man is out to destroy our country and western civilization, the better.


95 posted on 12/06/2012 3:59:23 PM PST by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: reagandemocrat
Yeap, I read that, too.

“One aspect of the weapons plan was to set up a false flag operation to make it appear that Assad used chemical weapons against his own people."

What else to believe these days. It's like OBL raid: no pictures, no videos, no DNA, etc., expect the photoshop picture showing the tallest guy in the picture looked the shortest. :-)

96 posted on 12/07/2012 12:10:53 AM PST by hamboy (Psalm 109:8: Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: hamboy

They really think we’re that stupid: “Part of the justification for Gulf War II was Hussein had deployed sarin gas against the Kurds, his own people. So if we can make it look like Assad is gassing his people, then those damn conservatives will look like hypocrites if they complain”

Win/win.


97 posted on 12/07/2012 10:40:02 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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