Posted on 04/11/2017 9:40:46 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Appalling images of Syrian babies gasping for breath and others foaming at the mouth after the Damascus regime hit a rebel-held town with chemical weapons has stunned the world. But people were almost as stunned last week that Syria still had chemical weapons because the Kremlin in June 2014 had vouched publicly for their complete eradication.
One man who certainly wasn’t stunned that Syria had such weapons and would use them was Syrian Brig. Gen. Zaher al-Sakat, once the Bashar regime’s chemical weapons chief in charge of such operations.
In an interview this week with Fox News, Sakat remained steadfast that there is no way his former boss, Syrian President Bashar Assad, would ever "completely his arsenal. Sakat said that in 2013 he was ordered -- from the top -- to use chemical weapons, phosgene and chlorine, on three separate occasions.
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War crimes tribunal for assad?
Flashback 2013:
Evidence Shows Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/14929-evidence-shows-syrian-rebels-behind-chemical-attack
UN Investigator Claims Evidence Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Gas
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/15308-un-investigator-claims-evidence-syrian-rebels-used-sarin-gas
U.S. Military Document: Syrian Rebels Had Chemical Weapons
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/16577-u-s-military-document-syrian-rebels-had-chemical-weapons
Syrian Rebels Fire on Civilian Protesters
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/15449-syrian-rebels-fire-on-civilian-protesters
Top Syrian Rebel Group Merges With Al-Qaeda in Iraq
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/15065-top-syrian-rebel-group-merges-with-al-qaeda-in-iraq
Maybe.
If he ever gases anyone other than Muslims.
This is some first-rate interventionist claptrap right here.
You remind me of the German Bund before WWII and the Leftist fellow travelers who believed communist hooey for years. You’re being duped in to believing a genocidal tyrant like assad and his champion putin are not committing these crimes. It’s like those who deny the Holocaust.
You mean the babies were not gasping for breath?
I’m seeing a disconnect between me and everyone else. I’ve seen zero photos or videos of the events in Syria for months, if not years. There is no emotional response from me. I respond to what happened, not what it looked like. I prefer that. It’s hard to get images out of your head.
>You remind me of the German Bund before WWII and the Leftist fellow travelers who believed communist hooey for years. You’re being duped in to believing a genocidal tyrant like assad and his champion putin are not committing these crimes. It’s like those who deny the Holocaust.
You sound like a Lib. No way Al Qaeda would gas a village they occupy. That would be against Islam! BTW, you still insisting that Putin bombed St. Pettersberg the other day, Mr. Nevertrumper?
I said he might have. I know that those journalists who investigated the bombings in Moscow were murdered. Probably a coincidence, right?
How about a war crimes tribunal for Syrian Brig. Gen. Zaher al-Sakat?
Oct 31, 2013 - Syria’s declared equipment for producing, mixing and filling chemical weapons has been destroyed, the international watchdog says.
This comes a day before the deadline set by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The weapons have been placed under seal, an OPCW spokesman said.
Inspectors were sent to Syria following allegations, denied by the government, that its forces had used chemical weapons in civilian areas.
Now that the equipment has been put beyond use, Syria has until mid-2014 to destroy the chemical weapons themselves.
In Washington, US state department official Thomas Countryman said: “I am increasingly confident that we will be able to complete this task... within the target date of 30 June of next year”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24754460
Jun 23, 2014 - Syria has handed over the last of its declared stockpile of chemical weapons, which will be destroyed at sea over the next two months, the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog has said.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) announced that the final 8% of Syria’s acknowledged arsenal of chemical weapons and precursors had been loaded on to a Danish freighter.
The ship, the Ark Futura, is now sailing to the Italian port of Gioia Tauro for a rendezvous with an American vessel, the MV Cape Ray, which is specially equipped to neutralise the most dangerous of the chemical agents at sea.
“The mission to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons programme has been a major undertaking marked by an extraordinary international cooperation,” said Ahmet Uzumcu, the OPCW’s director-general. “Never before has an entire arsenal of a category of weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country experiencing a state of internal armed conflict. And this has been accomplished within very demanding and tight timeframes.”
However, Uzumcu added that the OPCW was not in a position to certify that Syria no longer had any chemical weapons. The materials removed were those that the regime had declared.
Western governments claim to have intelligence suggesting that Damascus has not admitted to all its chemical arms. An OPCW investigation team has found evidence that chlorine gas was used against civilians in recent months “in a systematic manner”, but the team has been unable to reach the site for further investigation because it came under attack.
Possession of chlorine is not a violation of the chemical weapons treaty, as it is a commonly used chemical, so Syria was not required to list chlorine on its declared inventory. But its use as a weapon is a violation of international law.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/syria-chemical-weapons-final-destruction-un-deadline
By the time the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria (hereinafter “the Joint Mission”) completed its operations on 30 September 2014, the OPCW had been able to verify the destruction of 98% of chemical weapons declared by the Syrian Arab Republic, including all Category 1 chemicals.
https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/EC/79/en/c20crp01_ec7905_e_.pdf#page=5
https://www.opcw.org/documents-reports/annual-reports/
>I said he might have.
Do you regularly call people murders when you have no evidence of such? Slander is such a nasty thing, Mr. Nevertrumper.
If I was Assad, and every time I conducted chemical attacks on my people, it was blamed on someone else, why wouldn’t I continue to do it?
One would think that if Assad wasn’t the one who ordered the chemical attacks that he would be screaming bloody murder about being blamed for it.
In February, 2016, then CIA director John Brennan stated during a “60 Minutes” interview, “We have a number of instances where ISIL has used chemical munitions on the battlefield.” “The CIA believes that ISIS has the ability to manufacture small quantities of chlorine and mustard gas.” http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-john-brennan-60-minutes-scott-pelley/
In November, 2016, The New York Times wrote, “The Islamic State has used chemical weapons, including chlorine and sulfur mustard agents, at least 52 times on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq since it swept to power in 2014, according to a new independent analysis.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/middleeast/isis-chemical-weapons-syria-iraq-mosul.html
October, 2014, The Washington Post reports, “[IS uses] chlorine gas against Iraqi security forces”. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-militants-allegedly-used-chlorine-gas-against-iraqi-security-forces/2014/10/23/c865c943-1c93-4ac0-a7ed-033218f15cbb_story.html
July, 2015, The New York Times reports, “ISIS Has Fired Chemical Mortar Shells”, “The Islamic State appears to have manufactured rudimentary chemical warfare shells” https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/world/middleeast/islamic-state-isis-chemical-weapons-iraq-syria.html
September, 2016, Fox News reports, “ISIS believed to have attacked US base in Iraq with chemical agent” http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/21/isis-may-have-attacked-us-base-in-iraq-with-chemical-agent.html
The US government believes ISIS possesses and can manufacture chemical weapons, including chlorine. There are reports over the past several years of ISIS using chemical weapons.
You’re funny. You’re here to defend the tyrant and murderer putin over the terrible charge of “slander.” You’re a hoot. What time do you get off work in Moscow.
Both ISIS and assad use chemical weapons.
Neocons need their false flag so they can get rid of Assad.
Know what? These people, like Randy Pander Paul, who claim to know the constitution, yet ignore the fact that in the enumerated powers there is that little thing in there about the LAWS OF NATIONS. Different than international law, but Vattel expressly made the point in his writings, “The Law of Nations”, that if crimes were committed by anyone that defied natural law-which the law of nations basically is, that the rest of the world is obligated to punish those who commit such crimes.
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