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Western Intelligence Suspects Assad Has a Secret Chemical Stockpile
Daily Beast ^ | 5/1/2014 | Noah Schatman and Christopher Dickey

Posted on 05/06/2014 11:33:57 AM PDT by mojito

Concerns are growing among Western intelligence services that Syria still has a significant and undeclared arsenal of chemical weapons, including crude chlorine-filled bombs, secret stockpiles of sophisticated nerve gasses or their components—and the scientific know-how to rebuild a larger-scale, higher-grade chemical weapons effort once the Bashar al-Assad regime has escaped the international spotlight.

“A ghost of CW [chemical weapons] program in a place riven with conflict—that’s a real concern,” one American intelligence official tells The Daily Beast.

But it’s not the only worry. Within the U.S. intelligence community, there’s also lingering unease about the Assad regime’s biological weapons program that has never been the focus of international inspections and that American officials confess they just don’t have the resources to track down.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; chemicalweapons; obama; syria
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You don't say? So let me get this straight: Assad has a secret program, but Saddam didn't.

Got it.

1 posted on 05/06/2014 11:33:57 AM PDT by mojito
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Hmmm, now these weapons will be used on...fellow Muzzies, right?

Exactly why is it that we should give a smelly Obama?


2 posted on 05/06/2014 11:37:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Here we go. My analysis that we lured Putin into Ukraine in order to distract him from Syria is starting to look quite possible. The plan to hand Syria over to the Muslim Brotherhood hit a speedbump when Putin stepped in, but TPTB seem to have dealt with that little inconvenience.


3 posted on 05/06/2014 11:37:27 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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Isn’t he afraid of the red line?


4 posted on 05/06/2014 11:37:36 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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Post Mark from Iraq/ Gen Del Syria.


5 posted on 05/06/2014 11:38:52 AM PDT by DocJhn
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With “made in Iraq” on every canister?

Check the Bekka valley.


6 posted on 05/06/2014 11:38:55 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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No I understand why the NSA is reading everyone’s web postings. So they can know what the heck is going on. Hey NSA, I’ve got another one for you. Iran has nukes pointed at Israel.


7 posted on 05/06/2014 11:40:30 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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All the pieces must be set up before they can be knocked down with an invasion.


8 posted on 05/06/2014 11:41:36 AM PDT by pallis
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My thoughts exactly!!


9 posted on 05/06/2014 11:41:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Watch for the keyword Aspirin Factory.
10 posted on 05/06/2014 11:43:57 AM PDT by McGruff (I'ts not the crime it's the coverup they said.)
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Look under the kitchen sink for bleach and ammonia.


11 posted on 05/06/2014 11:50:16 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Those are the WMD that never existed in Iraq.


12 posted on 05/06/2014 11:50:51 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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Gee, of course Assad has chemical weapons. The Russians smuggled Saddam's chemical weapons out of Iraq and into Syria. Assad didn't turn these chemical weapons in to the Russians (wink, wink, nod, nod), but if he did they made a great hoopla about the turnover while they were secretly smuggled back into Syria.

Now, let's talk about the ex-Lybian chemical weapons Ambassador Stevens smuggled through Benghazi and into Turkey for use by the anti-Assad forces fighting in Syria.

13 posted on 05/06/2014 11:54:38 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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We also suspect that Obamatollah has a secret WMD stockpile.


14 posted on 05/06/2014 11:57:18 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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LMAO!


15 posted on 05/06/2014 12:00:19 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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Western Intelligence Suspects Assad Has a Secret Chemical Stockpile

Syria has a lot more than chemical weapons, Saddam Hussein sent Syria everything he had.

16 posted on 05/06/2014 12:10:09 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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He’s still hanging on to Sadaam’s weapons.

Maroon...


17 posted on 05/06/2014 12:10:58 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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“Western Intelligence?”


18 posted on 05/06/2014 1:08:06 PM PDT by free from tyranny
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Syria's Chemical Weapons Came From Saddam's Iraq
19 posted on 05/06/2014 1:10:35 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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“Hecho en Baghdad”


20 posted on 05/06/2014 5:01:14 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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