Posted on 08/19/2014 8:59:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
The international chemical weapons watchdog says that all the precursor chemicals for sarin gas removed from Syria have been destroyed.
The 580 tonnes of chemicals were neutralised on board a specially built American ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said the ship's crew have now begun to neutralise 22 tonnes of sulphur mustard.
The process is part of a Russian-US deal to eliminate Syria's arsenal.
The deal was drawn up after hundreds of people died in a sarin attack in the Ghouta area outside Damascus on 21 August last year...
...OPCW chief ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu announced the completion of this stage of the process on Wednesday.
The two hydrolysis systems neutralised the precursor chemicals - methylphosphonyl difluoride - by mixing them with fresh water and "reagents" and then heating the mixture to reduce its toxicity...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Uh oh. This is bad news for the Neo-Cons who wanted to use poison gas for their rationale to attack Assad. Joel Rosenberg, who called for the bombing of Syria over supposed poison gas use, is very saddened.
So they dump it in the ocean after diluting it with water from the ocean.
I had to excerpt the article, it’s subsequently taken to Europe for disposal.
This was nothing but a fig leaf thrown to Obaa by Putin so he would stop embarrassing himself.
It has made zero difference in Syria and the mess in the middle east.
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