What does this look like to you? looks like binary chemical containment vessels in a bombed out Syrian bunker to me.
What does this look like to you? looks like binary chemical containment vessels in a bombed out Syrian bunker to me.
How do you know it is in Syria?
Hoe-Lee-Krap!
I rarely if ever go beyond putting something in Caps, bold, or underlining it, but that pic just might deserve a font 10 ft. tall. It is like turning a corner and staring Satan in the face.
However, in order to not leave myself open to doing a “Colin Powell”, I should first ask:
Is that a pic of a bunker @ Sayrat Airfield, after the US attack Fri. early a.m. (Syria time)?
Source of the pic? (Hack of Syrian military? Spy? Some Syrian personnel too dense to not understand not to distribute such a pic?)
Did we hit chem weapons storage knowing the risk (when in binary containment) was nil, and then SAY we did not target chemical weapons storage? (IIRC, one of our military spokesmen said we did not hit chem weapons storage facilities. I suppose empty containers might qualify — sort of a white lie — but it seems doubtful our intel would be good enough to be SURE of that...)
If the answers to those questions are “Yes”, the source is legit, and “yes”; then my “10 ft. tall font” is deserved.
Can anyone here NOT imagine what that much Sarin could do to, say, Tel Aviv?
Have half of all FReepers forgotten WE have Special Forces in Syria, fighting ISIS, and due to the nature of the 5-way (6-way?) fight, how easy it would be for, even if unintentional, our guys to be on the receiving end of this stuff?
The very existence of this stuff, especially in a civil war torn country, means every day it becomes likely terrorists will manage to capture some Sarin, and, in this form (does not degrade rapidly), will hold it until they have a chance to hit, say, London?
Remember who one of Syria’s major allies on the ground is: Hezbollah.
I suppose it is possible the Russians will say these are left over containers from destruction of Sarin precursors, back in 2013, but why would they be kept around? It’d be difficult for outside intel to be SURE they were all empty, and discovery of them could result in anything from embarrassment to a heavy strike by the US or, especially, Israel. This particularly in light of Syria’s past and continued use of chem weapons.
This SURELY blows up the “Syria does not have binary Sarin storage capability” argument. (That argument made no sense anyway: Syria has a long history with chem weapons, and Russian tech help, and are bound to be fairly competent in this area.)
I’ll conclude by saying I am stunned at the lack of comments on this image, or what it means. People just don’t recognize the extent of evil in all its forms, I guess.