Posted on 09/18/2014 6:56:35 AM PDT by markomalley
Israel believes Syria has retained caches of combat-ready chemical weapons after giving up raw materials used to produce such munitions under pressure from foreign powers, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.
Summarizing Israeli intelligence estimates that were previously not disclosed to avoid undermining the Syrians' surrender of their declared chemical arsenal, the official said they had kept some missile warheads, air-dropped bombs and rocket-propelled grenades primed with toxins like sarin.
"There is, to my mind, still in the hands of Syria a significant residual capability ... that could be used in certain circumstances and could be potentially very serious," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
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Saddam went to all the trouble of shipping them there on the eve of the Second Gulf War.( During the grace period negotiated on his behalf by France.)
Waste not want not.
Well of course they did! They would have been total fools to ‘give them up’ with the likes of al-queda and ISIS type rebels running the so-called freedom revolution. What is waiting in the wings of the power vacuum is a million times worse than Assad unleashing a few chemical weapons in a few areas supporting the “rebels.”
Golly-geee and we’re arming the ‘moderates’...
None of this is going to end well.
A bunch of terrorists killed themselves the other day when a rocket exploded while they loaded chlorine gas.
obama earlier had blamed the Syrian gov’t so he could help his terrorist buddies when in all likely hood is was his friends the terrorists.
Probably got them from Saddam; but, no, according to the anti-Bush media, Saddam never had ‘em, right?
Thanks markomalley.
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