Posted on 11/05/2013 2:59:11 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The United States is looking at new classified intelligence indicating the Syrian government may not fully declare its chemical weapons stockpile, CNN has learned. That would mean it will still have a secret cache of chemical weapons even after the current agreed-upon destruction effort is carried out.
The intelligence is not definitive but “there are various threads of information that would shake our confidence,” one U.S. official said. “They have done things recently that suggest Syria is not ready to get rid of all their chemical weapons.”
CNN has spoken to several U.S. officials with access to the latest intelligence on Syria, who confirmed the information. All declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the data. U.S. intelligence agencies, the Defense Department, the State Department and White House are all reviewing the information.
One official cautioned there is not yet a definitive U.S. conclusion about Syrian intentions based on this intelligence, but there is an effort to gather corroborating information and better understand what the regime may be up to.
There is agreement among U.S. officials that Syria’s official declarations to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have been made largely in good faith after the threat of military action by the United States for Syria’s use of chemical weapons against civilians. The United States believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad understands not to do that again. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at security.blogs.cnn.com ...
Silly you. In an effort to upgrade the school curriculum in the Syria, Assad has ordered 150,000 home chemistry sets....
And may these possibly be the WMD spirited out of Iraq in the early days of the Iraqi War?
Something tells me Kerry/Obama/Putin are pretty happy that all weapons will not be declared. Can't have Bush vindicated now, can we?
obama needs a world war to save him from his lying ways. Too late... he has destroyed the full faith and trust of the American people in the US Government. Only the most rabid leftists still truly believe him... and they will once again hate the US Government when a Republican is President.
Weren’t many saying that Iraq sent their chemical weapons to Syria? I always believed they did.
OMG...............the horror. Who would have thunk it?
Have the Syrians tried Iraq yet?
nooooooooooo, really. they teamed up with the KGB guy and lied to Obama..
Well, that’s odd and wouldn’t have thought that.../s
Anyone with room temperature IQ could figure this out. Heck, my cat could figure this out.
So what? We’re going to start another war because of something Syria may hide, and which Obama’s Al Qaeda allies in Syria already have?
Its not our problem anyway.
We’ve known this for 12 years
I am shocked...absolutely SHOCKED! The huge Manatee.
No! They wouldn’t dare do that! - not after Obama drew a Red Line!
What ObamaCare?
Get Obama to the podium immediately so he can make it “clear” he won’t tolerate the chance for inhumanity!
Then this really isn’t Frontpage news.
IDIOTS!!!
COMMON sense would lead a MORON to understand this!
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