U.S. plans for possibility that Assad could lose control of chemical arms cache

Washington Post ^ | December 16, 2012 | Craig Whitlock and Carol Morello

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Last week, fighters from a group that the Obama administration has branded a terrorist organization were among rebels who seized the Sheik Suleiman military base near Aleppo, where research on chemical weapons had been conducted. Rebels are also closing in on another base near Aleppo, known as Safirah, which has served as a major production center for such munitions, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

The opposition Free Syrian Army said it did not find any chemical weapons at the first installation.

[penelopesire]

Great....Obama training AlQeda on how to ‘handle’ chemical weapons.....what could go wrong?

Heaven help us!

[Baynative]

"So the current Syrian stockpile consists largely of chemical weapons they manufactured themselves. They got a bit of a kick-start from weapons transferred from Egypt, Libya, and the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s, however."

While some of this is cover and some m ay be true, the fact is that they benefited greatly from democrats stalling the invasion of Iraq after 9/11 which gave Sadam time to move stores across the border to them for what he thought would be safe keeping.