Syria loads chemical weapons into bombs; military awaits Assad's order

nbcnews.com ^ | December 5, 2012 | Jim Miklaszewski and M. Alex Johnson

[John W]

The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday.

The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said.

As recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence that the process of mixing the "precursor" chemicals had begun. But Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs.

[terycarl]

Assad would be signing his death warrant by using such weapons

oh please...he is a dead man one way or the other...I think he might decide to go for the big exit.....what's to lose???

[WVKayaker]

Saddam’s “Special Weapons” went by air to Syria, Belarus, and possibly Russia and Libya as well.  They went by ground to Syria, and they went by sea to points unreported.   The plan was called “Sarindar” (”Emergency Exit”), and it wasn’t much different in general strategic terms from the American flight from South Vietnam.  Just as U.S. embassy officials shredded and burned documents when Saigon fell, and again in Tehran, Kabul, and a dozen other fallen nations, the Russians and others did what they could to move, hide, and/or destroy their sensitive documents, equipment that they’d provided to Saddam’s Regime, as well as (allegedly) his WMD and WMD equipment as well.   “By air, by land, and by sea” That is the claim made by Gen. Sada, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Shaw, Gen. Ibrahim, Ariel Sharon, Israeli intelligence, and many more.

http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/malensek/2006/04062006.htm

[Carry_Okie]

I can’t help but think that this is a false flag operation being conducted by AQ using Libyan CW to propitiate Western intervention.

[Ditto]

Ivan, and the Persians are going to be pissed.

What makes you think that? Neither of them give a crap about body counts and they will just find some way to blame it on the Jews, and the BBC and State run media in the US will find people to 'sort of' echo that opinion.

Does anyone remember when Nancy Pilosi suddenly showed up in Damascus to wet kiss Assad when she was trying to undermine Bush?

Miss Nancy must be proud of her buddy Assad now, and don't expect for a moment for the American MSM to remind her of the friends she made then trying to undermine US foreign policy for pure domestic political purposes.

[ConservativeInPA]

Seriously, why do we care about Muslims in Syria wanting to kill other Muslims in Syria when we do not give a damn about Israelis attacked by the same. Let them commit self-genocide. It is their actions. They were not chosen by God.

For those of you that think that one Muslim is better than another, you are sadly mistaken.

It is not our problem. Let them kill each other and don't spend a dime in my tax dollars stopping it.

The same goes for Egypt, Libya or other fine country of the same ilk.

[butterdezillion]

How can anybody doubt that Obama is trying to install the Muslim caliphate? Everything he has done has ousted the elements of stability in the Middle East and helped to install radical Islamists. He’s setting the world on fire.

[wolfman]

Y’all highly underestimate the lethality of nerve agents. It’s effectivness relies mostly on the delivery system, but delivery has improved to a point much greater than WW1.

[Ditto]

oh please...he is a dead man one way or the other...

No, he'll live out his days on some beach villa in Cuba, Vietnam or Iran and baring that some Russian Dacha on the Black Sea.

[soycd]

Maybe it is wrong to hope he uses such weapons against the moslem scum that is trying to gain more power in the region but the desire is there none the less.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Maybe someone with an I.Q. greater than I can read this very enlightening article and explain to me how 'Benghazi' might be directly related to what's happening now in Syria. Is the saran gas narrative a bunch of B.S. to justify direct U.S. involvement there? Is 0bama going to assist Putin in taking over Syria??? Is this what the "flexibility" comment was all about?? Anyway, if anyone's brave enough to help me out, here it is:

Part I: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51346

Part II: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51400

SUPPLEMENT: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51470

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

See Post 70. Did you read that article? What do you think?

[Blogger]

If he shoots them at Israel, Isaiah 17 will immediately follow.

[JerseyHighlander]

Many of the indigenous militiamen are returning HOME to their families in lulls in fighting.

Militiamen become completely ineffective if they are responsible for transporting parents, grandparents, inlaws, wife and kids in a desperate race to see refuge across the border, or even across ten miles of urban battlefield.

[KTM rider]

Here he come to save da day

Gangsta Mouse is on the way

send his brotherhood homies to do a drive by ratatat{/fitycent voice]

(all to stop a humanitarian disaster, its for the children )[/NPR soft voice]

[KTM rider]

Glen Beck was saying that a while ago and I was wondering where he got the info.

I have this nagging hunch that Ambassador Stevens was probably ordered taken out by Obama because he knew too much about the gunrunning to Syria through Libya and was about to squeel

[TigersEye]

Gangsta Mouse is on the way

LOL Look out! He might go on The View and say bad things about Assad.

[FlyingEagle]

USA COMMUNIST FALSE FLAG INITIATIVE TO INSTALL ISLAMIST REGIME IN SYRIA. THERE ARE NO SARIN GAS BOMBS,

THIS IS PURE PROPAGANDA TO ENABLE OVERT UNAUTHORIZED US MILITARY FORCES TO ATTACK SYRIA WITH NO CONSULTATION OF CONGRESS.

OBJECTIVE, OVERTHROW THUG ASSAD, INSTALL ISLAMIST REGIME WITH AL QUEDA FIGHTERS FUNDED BY USA THROUGH ARMS SHIPPED VIA QATAR.

OUTRAGE OF THE DAY. I HATE THIS OBAMA LYING COMMUNIST TYRANNICAL REGIME. THIS WILL MAKE BENGHAZI LOOK LIKE A TEDDY BEARS PICNIC.

[BlessingsofLiberty]

“THERE ARE NO SARIN GAS BOMBS,”

There might be some that we helped supply to the rebels. Lots of goodies crossing into Syria thanks to Obama.

[MasterGunner01]

Ah, Assad's chemical shells aren't 155mm caliber; they are 152mm caliber and are undersized for NATO gun tubes. Assad has Scud unguided artillery rockets that were designed for NBC warheads.

Benghazi was coordinating the shipment of ex-Libyan war materiel to the New Syrian Army rebels staging in Turkey against Syria. CIA was training NSA troops in the handling of chemical weapons for possible “false flag” ops against Assad in Syria. This would be used as a pretext for NATO [EU] and U.S. involvement to topple Assad. It also puts us directly on a collision course with Russia, China, and Iran that are backing Assad.

Barry and Hillary are playing with nothing short of World War III in the Middle East here and they appear to be clueless. Putin probably orchestrated the attack on the Benghazi site using Iranian proxies to put a shot across Barry's and Hillary's bows. They appear to be ignoring it as indicated by “leaks” like this of Assad deploying chemical weapons.

[Gene Eric]

>> Must be faulty intel! There is no WMD!

Powell voted for Obama. So that shouldn’t be in question now.