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There is a current panic amoung world leaders, particularly in our State Dept, that the civil war in Syria will result in the transfer of chemical and biological weapons to terrorists.

We have already allowed thousands of man portable surface to air missiles, all at least as capable as the US military’s Stinger missile, to disappear from Libya's stock piles into the hands of terrorists under cover of anarchy due to the incompetence or willful negligence of the Obama administration.

If we repeat this mistake with Syria's extensive WMD inventory the world could be in serious trouble.

If Syria has a large stockpile of it's chemical and bio weapons located in Damascus it is entirely possible that Israel, the US or EU would us extreme measures to prevent their use, transfer to terrorists or or to contain the spread of infection from bio agents if they are either used or if they become uncontained due to damage to the weapons or accidental release.

Assad has seen what has happened to his close friends and allies Saddam Hussein , Hosni Mubarak, Moammar Gadhafi, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and he has no desire for his family and himself to join the club of deposed and dead Arab dictators, and he no doubt views his WMD arsenal as his trump card.

Assad is losing his grip on the country so his natural course of action would be to relocate all them to Damascus where he would still retain control of them until he needs them for his last stand against his enemies.

This is especially the case of bio weapons, which Syria has at their disposal. Where they came from is an interesting question since Syria does not have technology to develop sophisticated bio weapons on their own.

There is only one method to prevent the spread of infectious bio weapons and that is the use of a thermo nuclear or neutron device to sterilize the infected area.

I doubt Israel would launch such a preemptive attack, even if they had an certified inventory list of the weapons and knew their exact location.

Assad might attack Israel with WMDs in a last ditch effort to redeem himself in the eyes of the islamics, whereupon Israel would retaliate by destroying Damascus with nukes.

“Behold, Damascus is taken from being a great city in one hour; it shall be a ruinous heap.”