Posted on 12/20/2012 4:21:40 PM PST by ex-Texan
Opposition activists have posted several videos they say show Syria is currently using chemical weapons. For the past week, Western governments have expressed concern that the regime is covertly mixing chemicals used for nerve agents.
U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague and U.S. President Barack Obama have both indicated that Syria would be crossing a line if it used chemical weapons and foreign intervention in the civil war may follow.
Hague said at a security conference in Bahrain that the use of chemical weapons would mark a “major change” in the 20-month conflict that has killed tens of thousands, according to the BBC.
“The president of the United States warned of serious consequences and he means it,” Hague told the BBC.
One video shows a fire caused by a Syrian tank, that opposition activists say could not be extinguished with water, reported Al-Arabiya News on Sunday. The tank released a toxic substance that bubbled, said the activists.
Rebels also posted a video of equipment they say is being used by Syrian soldiers as protection against chemical weapons. Advertisement
The videos come after Hague told the BBC on Saturday that there is “enough evidence to know that they need a warning,” referring to the Syrian government’s apparent plans to use chemical weapons.
U.S. officials told Wired magazine last week that Syrian engineers have begun combining substances to make the nerve agent sarin gas. Syria is believed to have more than 500 metric tons of methylphosphonyl difluoride and isopropanol, which are used to create the gas.
“Physically, they’ve gotten to the point where the can load it up on a plane and drop it,” one official said.
The chemical weapons are primarily concentrated in five air bases and are being monitored closely by foreign intelligence services, the BBC reported, citing Western military sources in the Persian Gulf region.
The Syrian government has said it has no plans to use chemical weapons, according to AFP. It said rebels are more likely to use chemical weapons.
The rebels “may resort to using chemical weapons against the Syrian people … after having gained control of a toxic chlorine factory” said the Syrian Foreign Ministry, reported AFP.
The Foreign Ministry likely was referring to the Syrian-Saudi Chemicals Company, located near Safira, which was captured by insurgents with the hard-line Islamist Al-Nusra Front.
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* Ping * !
The Syrians need to hire the global weapons czars, Rimshot Joe Biden, Kathleen “The Armpit Sniffer” Sebelius and Janet Lesbitano to ban chemical weapons. That’ll work.
“The president of the United States warned of serious consequences and he means it,” Hague told the BBC.
See, there isn’t anything to worry about.
The Democrats went stark raving mad over the Contras who were fighting communists in our own back yard in Nicaragua. Now, we’re intervening across the Middle East for no apparent national interest, and the Democrats are as quiet as can be. Why? It’s OK to kill people with Democrat bombs but not Republican bombs? Seems hypocritical to me.
Think about it. Assad is Iran's puppet, Iran is Russia's puppet.
Mr more flexible shouldn't be trying to kill off Putin's plaything, should he?
This is what they want, and I don’t put it past the “rebels” to be staging this, with some administration help.
I don't believe the death toll estimates, and I don't believe Assad is using chemical weapons.
I think the BBC, Reuters, AFP, the Europeans, the Turks, and Barack Obama are passionately pro-Islamic Brotherhood and even more passionately anti-Israel.
Obama and his Fellow Travelers are doing everything in their power to help the Islamic Brotherhood seize control in Syria.
When the Brotherhood takes power in Syria, the Middle East “Cold War” against Israel will be over.
The only domino left to fall is Jordan, and then Israel will be completely encircled by psychopathic Jew hating terrorists.
You answered your own question - the Contras were fighting communists. Democrats won't stand for that sort of thing.
No doubt. We all remember Oswald’s reaction to Kennedy’s anti-communism. Wow, does it feel odd to use “Kennedy” and “anti-communism” in the same sentence after everything that bloated turd Teddy inflicted on us.
Those wouldn’t be the chemical weapons from Libyan stocks that the folks in Benghazi smuggled out to Turkey for use by the New Syrian Army would they? This is probably out of the question, but I’d like Putin to blow Barry’s operation to Hell by exposing his operation before the world; a kind of reverse “Cuban Missile Crisisâ€. In this scenario, Putin assumes the role of JFK and Obama plays Khrushchev.
The Damascus-based facility Centre D'Etudes et de Recherches Scientifiques (CERS) is the center of Syria's chemical-weapons program. Known chemical agents produced by Syria include Sarin, a lethal nerve gas that could result in permanent neurological damage in even low exposure, mustard gas, and the even more potent and deadly VX.
So if the rebels take Damascus, they will have acquired one of the largest chemical weapons scientific research facilities in the world. That threat matrix is gonna take a real big bomb. Obama will do what his blackberry tells him to do.
Geez!
I hope that the UN isn’t taking the weekend off for the Holidays (for about 1/3rd of its membership), so that they can dust off another strong resolution against the killing of millions from chemical weapons.
Oh, wait a minute, that’s not needed, ‘cause Zer0’s got their six!
(Once he mobilizes over the next 12 months)
Russian Force Take Control of Syrian Chemical and Bioweapons -- LOL !
Why tell us this now ?
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