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U.S. warns Syria not to use chemical weapons ( Today's Warning )
CNN ^ | updated 4:20 PM EST, Mon December 3, 2012 | By the CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 12/03/2012 1:40:18 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

(CNN) -- The United States warned Syria again on Monday not to use chemical weapons amid intelligence reports indicating President Bashar al-Assad's regime could be preparing to take that step as it escalates its fight against rebel forces.

"I'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday. "But suffice it to say, we are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur."

U.S. officials are concerned that with fighting closing in on Damascus, forcing the temporary closure of the airport there, the regime may be feeling desperate and toying with the idea that chemical weapons could finally crush the persistent rebellion.

Official: 'Worrying signs' regarding Syria's chemical weapons

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; chemicalweapons; iran; israel; lebanon; liby; libya; nato; putin; russia; syria; syriachemicalweapons; turkey
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...He went on to say: “We shall remember how some regimes supported the militants in Libya and how the situation ended with the killing of the American ambassador in Libya.”

Notice how the word killing was used instead of the word death. We all were told he was found alive and died on route or at the Hospital from smoke inhalation. So Putin should have said death, unless the story we have been told is a flat out lie. Very coded message. Perhaps they had a hit time in the Hospital as backup in case the local Al Qeada, Syrian regulars and Iranian commandos failed to complete one of the primary objectives

41 posted on 12/03/2012 5:30:52 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

time should read team


42 posted on 12/03/2012 5:32:05 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

Have we seen any media reports of what Putin said today?


43 posted on 12/03/2012 5:35:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Marine_Uncle

On to part two....thanks!


44 posted on 12/03/2012 5:36:58 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
So, if Hitler, Mad as he was, didn’t use gas—the Syrian Tyrant will not as well.

History says he might. Everyone in this region has chemical and biological WMD's. Except oddly enough, for present day Iraq. Egypt used mustard gas and possibly nerve agents during the North Yemen Civil War. During the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq employed blister agents and likely also used nerve agents against Iranian forces. Shortly before war ended in 1988, the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja was exposed to multiple chemical agents, killing about 5,000 of the town's 50,000 residents. From Wikipedia. Also read somewhere that Assad's father is rumored to have used chemical agents. But they seem to be scrubbing the web of that info.

45 posted on 12/03/2012 5:43:07 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The info is rather damning for the White Hut.


46 posted on 12/03/2012 5:43:37 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (I'm going John Galt.... But. Honor must be earned.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Have we seen any media reports of what Putin said today?

And Steven's actually just had a meeting with the Turks prior to the attack. And Putin makes that statement, while on a one day trip to Constantinople. Guess that is what flexibility translates too in Russian. The dirty little secret is that if the best case scenario occurs, the US is already committing 35-75 thousand troops. The media is kinda not even talking about that one. We can always send the TSA and Homeland Security people. Obama probably regards all this as a criminal manner any way, ever since the House of Saud crowned Obama, King of the World.

47 posted on 12/03/2012 5:49:59 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Post #47 is worth seeing! ;^)


48 posted on 12/03/2012 5:50:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: All
Missed it by that much!
49 posted on 12/03/2012 5:50:56 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Marine_Uncle
At the end of part two,...there is mention of an Obama memo to Insider Threats..."Article at NIN title:Obama’s memo on “insider threats”

What was that about?

51 posted on 12/03/2012 6:07:47 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Truth29

——I smell a false flag operation in the making. Can’t prove it, of course, but how about a scenario where some of Qadaffi’s chemical weapons were shipped to the Islamist resistance in Syria via Turkey as part of the Behghazi operation before it was attacked?——

Bingo...and they will use them , then blame Assad to gave Obama a reason to involve US troops to support the rebel MB to overthrow Assad....

Syria is not Libya... They have superior well trained forces, much better weapons via the Russians, air power, artillery power .... The MB rebels well NEVER take Assad out without US help and support in a much larger way...

Obama is setting us up to help support the “rebels” (MB) to overthrow Assad to surround Israel on all three sides to get them to capitulate to a 1967 border agreement...

His legacy ....


52 posted on 12/03/2012 6:35:25 PM PST by JZoback
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
RE: "What was that about?"
I don't have any info other then what one reads at the
hyperlinked site (Northeast Intelligence Network). I was not aware
such an organization even existed until you brought it up in your question and I went back to read the end of Doug's article more closely. I missed it the first time around.


53 posted on 12/03/2012 7:01:13 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (I'm going John Galt.... But. Honor must be earned.)
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To: Truth29; MasterGunner01; JZoback

See the link at post #32....false flag mentioned....lots of details regarding Benghazi there.


54 posted on 12/03/2012 7:21:59 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Wow,that is some crazy stuff.Those Mayans might be right after all. I wish my credit card was not already maxed out.


55 posted on 12/03/2012 7:58:47 PM PST by TBall
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Wow,that is some crazy stuff.Those Mayans might be right after all. I wish my credit card was not already maxed out.


56 posted on 12/03/2012 7:58:47 PM PST by TBall
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To: TBall
I am not sure how much I believe either....but stuff is oozing out of the woodwork....so to speak...
57 posted on 12/03/2012 8:06:37 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: RitchieAprile
Doug Hagmann at Canada Free Press, “Benghazi Behind the Scenes”, Friday, 30 November 2012. The CFP has had two articles on this within the last two weeks. Here is Part 2 (contains a link to Part 1). Here: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51400

Both of these articles have appeared on FR. This version of events makes a lot of sense to me — especially the use of a “false flag” deception to get the EU and NATO involved in toppling Assad. Remember that a Turkish minister met with the U.S. ambassador to Libya at the Benghazi site just before the attack started. The Turkish connection hasn't received a lot of attention. That is, WHY was the Turk meeting the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi instead of the more secure Tripoli Embassy?

58 posted on 12/03/2012 9:09:03 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: MasterGunner01

This is also my belief. My theory is that the attack on the consulate in Bengahzi was probably Al Quds, Iranian special Forces. The Russians knew we were processing weapons there. They openly complained about it to the UN.


59 posted on 12/04/2012 4:54:07 AM PST by PJammers (I can't help it... It's my idiom!)
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