Posted on 12/09/2012 8:22:41 PM PST by drewh
For the past week, US officials have kept up a flow of leaks to the media suggesting that Syrian President Bashar Assad was on the verge of ordering his army to unleash chemical weapons. The details built up as the week went by, starting with the detection of “unusual movements” of Syrian chemical weapons units, advancing to reports that the Syrians were “mixing precursor chemicals” for the nerve gas sarin and on Thursday, Dec. 6, that bombs had been made ready with sarin gas for loading onto Syrian Air Force fighter-bombers when Assad gave the word.
Saturday, Dec. 8, British Foreign Secretary William Hague reported evidence from intelligence sources that Syria is preparing to use chemical weapons. British intelligence sources added that Syria's chemical weapons are concentrated at five air bases and are being closely watched. They said contingency plans have been drawn up if they show signs of being readied to be loaded and used as weapons.
Military sources disclosed that US, Israeli, Jordanian and Turkish special forces are spread out on the ground in Syria, armed with special gear for combating chemical arms. They are close enough to count the convoys carrying canisters, shells or bombs loaded with poison gas and their reports are supplemented by orbiting US military surveillance satellites and drones able to pinpoint the position of the chemical munitions at any given moment.
Sources also reported Saturday that the rebels had seized a “chlorine factor” at Al Safir, the cover name for Bashar Assad’s largest chemical store and base, where also he keeps Syrian Scud D missiles armed with chemical warheads ready to fire at Israel.
The strange thing about these tactics is this: If “US officials” – military and intelligence – were able to keep track step by step of the movements of Syria’s poisonous weapons, believe that sooner or later Assad will use them and have issued grave warnings, why didn’t they take preventive action in good time?
Yet to date, President Barack Obama has held back from ordering an attack on the Syrian army’s chemical units – just as the Syrian ruler is abstaining from issuing the final “go” order to use those weapons.
We seem to be witnessing a high-stake poker game between Washington and Damascus over a deck of chemical cards, each waiting to see who blinks first.
If the Americans attack, Assad will feel he is justified in releasing his poisonous gas over Turkey, Jordan and Israel.
But if Assad loses his nerve and lets loose with chemical weapons inside or outside Syria, the Americans will come crashing down on him with the full might of the US air, sea and marine forces standing by off the Syrian coast, along with Turkish, Israeli and Jordanian strikes against targets in Syria.
Tuesday Dec. 6, Syrian chemical weapons units positioned near the capital, Damascus were first sighted by military and intelligence personnel heading north on the road to Aleppo armed with shells loaded with nerve agents - sarin and possibly XV. Three days later, the movements continued to destinations unknown.
Intelligence experts are speculating that these convoys may be decoys for distracting attention from still- undiscovered poison gas caches. Large-scale Western naval and marines forces are therefore on elevated readiness for responding to any unexpected Syrian moves.
Those experts offer two theories about the destination of the chemicals weapons. One is that they are not destined for any of the battle fronts against the rebels, but for the Alawite Mountains; Assad is getting ready to retreat from Damascus and barricade himself in his mountain stronghold accompanied by the forces still loyal to him. Another theory is that from the Allawite Mts. near the coast, the Syrian ruler was planning to hit American and Turkish soldiers with chemical weapons as they came ashore.
It's good they don't have VX. Mistakes like that destroy the credibility of an article.
/johnny
I think the “rebels” will use chem weapons and Assad will get the blame from Obama.
What the heck is XV?
We need to do NOTHING. Just protect Israel from Islamic violence and war.
I’m beginning to think that, too.
Is there a video Rice can blame WWIII on yet?
Nothing that was covered in my NBC classes. I'm assuming it came from a clueless fiction author with no personal experince in the gas chamber.
/johnny
Jeez...it’s a typo. From people to whom English is a second language.
I know it’s Debka...but all you need to do is say that.
If we picked on every typo and horrible grammar error we would never finish an article.
We know what comes later. The “Arab Spring” will spawn the “United Islamic Republic” soon to be endorsed by plebiscites in Egypt, Syria and Libya, allied with and patterned after Iran. Just wish someone would ask Obama or Clinton some tough questions.
It's so easy, a cook can do it, sir.
/johnny
Rebels will provide “proof” of a chemical attack. Could be easily done with shells the Libyans provided. The CIA under Obama, or Libyan rebels both have a strong incentive to get us in on Syria.
But whatever, they’ll provide some flimsy proof, and the Wahabbist Jihadis will have our full military machine on their side.
And if someone proves it was fake 6 months later, who will care?
But we are determined to join the MB islamist side. We might as well paint green crescents on our F-18s. In Egypt they have crucified people and established a sharia dictatorship. And we are on their side.
Thanks drewh.
I heard that in some months GayMuzzie and his buddies will apply the Libya/Syria formula to Oman and Jordan, too.
Maybe a year.
XV may be a copy typo for VX, a very deadly and very difficult to handle binary nerve agent.
For a precedent (or a handy script), how about that Racak Massacre?
maybe its the antidote to VX?
I remember the first time I saw that footage, something bothered me, something didn't seem right about it.
Several hours later, it occurred to me. If you're going to massacre a unit, you do it all at once, in one place -- leave a heap of bodies and go on your way. You don't walk them one-by-one 50' up a gully and execute them, leaving bodies scattered bodies in the creekbed and up the gullies.
Upon reflection, the reason nis obvious. The latter method is inefficient, time-consuming...and incurs some unnecessary dangers. That the "educated" journalists with the news networks couldn't figure this out was a little stunning.
Racak taught me why all Islamic propaganda is so amateurish and transparent. It doesn't take much effort to fool the liberal western media -- who aren't after the truth anyway. They're simply advancing an agenda...
Read the whole thread at the link above. The Racak Massacre was staged by an American CIA agent by the name of William Walker, grandson of George Herbert Walker, cousin of the next President, and namesake of the same proto-KKK guy who named himself Emperor or Nicaragua.
These Masonic creeps have been pulling that kind of crap for that long.
Now that commander zero has turned over most of the sunni ME to the MB he needs to deal with the hashemites in Syria, the shiites in Iran and Israel. He can smell the sunni caliphate from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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