Posted on 07/25/2015 1:52:47 PM PDT by lbryce
One year after the Obama administration celebrated the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Bashar al-Assad’s regime did not relinquish all of its chemical weapons.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
An examination of last year’s international effort to rid Syria of chemical weapons, based on interviews with many of the inspectors and U.S. and European officials who were involved, shows the extent to which the Syrian regime controlled where inspectors went, what they saw and, in turn, what they accomplished. That happened in large part because of the ground rules under which the inspectors were allowed into the country, according to the inspectors and officials.
For one, the U.S. and European officials did not prevent the Assad regime from continuing to operate weapons-research facilities, which in turn allowed the regime to create a new type of chemical weapon using chlorine.
Back in May, the Syrian government was accused of launching close to 40 chemical weapons attacks–many of which were chorine bombs–since Assad agreed to hand over his chemical weapons war chest in 2013. In fact, chlorine gas has become a staple of Assad’s battlefield tactics.
Officials were also unable to force Assad to turn over the kinds of short-range rockets that U.N. investigators supposed were used in the August 2013 chemical weapons attack during which government forces are believed to have killed 1,400 people.
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Shocked.
Duh!
Bashar al-Assad’s regime did not relinquish all of its chemical weapons.
Great! I hope he uses them on ISIS.
"Death to America!"
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