Syria declares new chemical weapons facilities

BBC ^ | October 8, 2014

[Brad from Tennessee]

The UN Security Council has been told that Syria has revealed for the first time the existence of four more chemical weapons facilities.

Three of the sites are for research and another is for production.

Correspondents say the announcement heightens concerns that the Syrian government has not been fully open about its chemical weapons programme.

A mission to eliminate Syria's chemical arsenal was set up after a deadly attack outside Damascus in August 2013.

The joint operation by the UN and Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) declared last week that it had completed its mandate, after removing or destroying all 1,180 tonnes of declared toxic agents and precursor chemicals.

However, it said it would continue to deal with the destruction of chemical weapon production facilities inside Syria and "the clarification of certain aspects of the Syrian initial declaration" made when it signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) last October. . .

[Brad from Tennessee]

Assad was able to eliminate all his obsolete and unstable chemical munitions at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. In reality Assad was able to keep his newer stocks while the world's experts on chemical weapons destruction cleaned up his toxic time bomb.

[Sacajaweau]

Read the whole article.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I did. What’s your point?

[NoLibZone]

Lmao!

[Sacajaweau]

There are/were no chemicals found in those “newly declared” facilities.

[utax]

Have OPCW personnel ever actually destroyed any chemical weapons?

[what's up]

I wonder where in Syria Saddam’s WMD are.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[There are/were no chemicals found in those “newly declared” facilities.]

They could have easily been relocated in the last few years to undisclosed sites. One reason Syria, Iran, Egypt, Sudan (and formerly Iraq and Libya) stockpile chemical weapons is an attempt to reach a rough parity with Israel's nuclear arsenal. It's quite possible Obama and Kerry knew Assad would not relinquish all his chemical weapons but felt there would be political benefits in this charade.

Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright cut a deal with North Korea requiring NK to cease its nuclear weapons program. The North Koreans simply moved the program underground and kept silent about it. Sometime later the Clinton Administration became aware of NK’s secret program but it went undisclosed until Bush entered the White House and was informed.

Saddam carried on a WMD shell game with UN inspectors for years.