IDK, but this quick response from Russia just makes me suspect them.
Not a simple place, Syria.
The Russian chemical units were already deployed in anticipation of the jihadists staging a false flag chemical attack.
The Russians said just hours ago that French experts had been helping the jihadist opposition to load chemical munitions into shells.
Chlorine gas attacks don’t work well outdoors. Required canisters would need to be enormous (e.g., many large barrels) for any noticeable effect on a very small area for a short duration. Germany experimented with chlorine gas pumped from huge tanks upwind from French and Brit soldiers (168 tons of it in one instance) for a short time a long time ago and found it to be inefficient and resource-heavy.
The Brits tried using chlorine gas once by pumping 140 tons of it out of tanks upwind from German soldiers, but the wind changed. So that effort was not successful.
Nerve gas was launched from Iraqi state aircraft against Kurds under Sadaam Hussein and more recently by Assad’s aircraft against Syrian rebels, though. Russians have been preceding Syrian/Iranian attacks against rebel civilians with claims about rebels using chlorine gas.
Not only President Bush, but quite a few others said that the WOT might take 30 years or more. That was over 27 years ago. Before he left office, President Bush said something odd once—odd for a president to say anyway. He said that we would hear some things in regards to the WOT from the media that would be untrue.
Syria brokers secret deal to send atomic weapons scientists to Iran
The Sunday Telegraph ^ | September 26, 2004 | Con Coughlin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1227104/posts?page=24
Hmmm. Comment #24 was deleted. Anyway, just before that article was published, Russia voted against telling Syria to get its tens of thousands of troops out of Lebanon. Think about that.
I’ve been watching the situation for over 27 years (from ‘91) and posted hundreds of articles in regards to Iran in the early 2000s. Paid some attention to what happened since ‘79, too, after some prior service but un-American drunks shut down a manufacturing shop.
Some oldies that you might be interested in.
Russia Says It’s Ready to Arm Saudi Arabia
Itar-Tass ^ | February 10, 2005 | Lyuba Pronina
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339879/posts
Russians Respect Reason For Terrorism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210347/posts
TruthNews ^ | 6SEP04 | Gary Fitleberg
Russian FM To Israel: Chechnya No, Palestine and Iranian Nukes Yes
Truth News ^ | 8SEP04 | Ariel Natan Pasko
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210302/posts
Russian Rabbi Investigated for Distributing Book of Jewish Law [Update, more info.]
Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews ^ | 27JUN05 | Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431369/posts
Russia probing whether Jewish law constitutes incitement [”first time since Stalin’s regime”]
Haaretz ^ | 27JUN05 | Amiram Barkat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431367/posts
Russia calls for banning Judaism
Indian Express ^ | 27 june 2005 | Indian Express
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431407/posts
Russia, N.Korea, China give Iran missile aid -CIA
muzi news ^ | 09/08/01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/519198/posts
Russia says new Topol RS-12 mobile ICBM can evade U.S. missile defense
RBC.ru via translation ^ | November 2, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513904/posts
And about those traitors who’ve weakened our economy and defense for nearly 50 years,...
Manufactured scarcity The profits of deindustrialisation
Eurozine.com ^ | 2008-09-02 | James Heartfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2122661/posts