Posted on 05/07/2013 4:18:42 PM PDT by SJackson
Even in light of recent evidence that Syria‘s embattled ruler, Bashar al-Assad, might have used nerve gas against his own people, Barack Obama seems reluctant to escalate American involvement in Syria’s brutal civil war. But another scenario involving chemical weapons could force Obama into the deeper engagement he has long resisted: the alarming prospect that radical Islamists could acquire Syrian chemical weapons and try to use them beyond Syria’s borders, perhaps even within the United States.
“I think we should be worried,” says Jeffrey White an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former military intelligence officer. “As the war progresses and the rebels gain territory, assuming they do, inevitably they’re going to close in on some of the regime’s chemical facilities.” In fact, that has already happened. Earlier this year, rebel fighters with the powerful Jabat al Nusra faction–a group the State Department calls an extension of al Qaeda in Iraq–battled close enough to a major Syrian chemical stockpile near Aleppo that the regime is believed to have relocated its weapons to another location.
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
“if” is not the question ....
I’d say its pretty likely that they already have them.
What if al Qaeda Gets Syrian Chemical Weapons?
***It depends. If Al Qaeda uses them during the Obama administration, the MSM will cover for him and it won’t mean anything. If they use it in the next administration (which is likely to be republican) then the MSM will clamor for the heads of such inneffectual anti-terrorists on a ‘conservative’ administration.
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Then they'll make plans to use them. I'm not worried, my Uncle Joe assured me they're dead, GM is alive.
What if Al Qaeda received anti-aircraft missiles from Stevens in Benghazi? That would explain waaaaaay too much.
Basher Asshead, Alkida.....WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
I'll bet they come in boxes marked "From Iraq" on them
I think there is a big difference. alkida wouldn’t show any restraint, but asshead has so far.
Time magazine is pondering this serious question?
Usually they’re marveling that there is a difference between men and women FROM BIRTH:
They really did marvel at that. Why can’t they just die and go away?
In reality chemical weapons are not a hell of a lot different from “conventional” One is just as dead if one is blown up by a 1000 # bomb as if one is nailed with Sarin. Using such things in Syria by either side will not materially affect the war, won’t give the user’s side any advantage over the other.
Nerve gas?
Why, thats just agricultural pesticide.
Better question..what if Obama let AQ have chemical weapons in Benghazi?
Israel would retaliate the US will not.
They will be used in the Blue Cities.
New York City, Boston,Chicago.
As a good capitalist, I will buy stock in gas mask manufacturers. Their sales will boom.
No major city in the US will be safe from a potential chemical attack . The open southern border guarantees it.
What Weapons? WMD... Naw Syria doesn’t have any. Stop pulling the wool over our eyes. Saddam didn’t have them either....Just keep repeating that over and over and over again. There is nothing to see or find when you have blinders over your eyes....
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