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Report: Syria arms missiles with chemical warheads
http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=265384 ^

Posted on 12/11/2011 11:46:53 AM PST by jhpigott

The Syrian regime, which has endured nine months of civil unrest spurred by the Arab Spring as it swept across the Middle East, has armed its medium-range missile arsenal with chemical warheads.

According to a report published by the Sabah daily Sunday, Damascus armed 600 one-ton chemical warheads to use in the event of a foreign military intervention. Furthermore, President Bashar al-Assad ordered the deployment of 21 missile launchers along its border with Turkey. Syria’s medium-range missiles that can be equipped with chemical warheads have a range of up to 1,300 kilometers and would include the southern and central provinces of Turkey.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; france; interventionism; israel; middleeast; nato; neocons; nukes; syria; turkey; wmd; ww3
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With reports within the last 72 hours that Assad has mobilized a sizeable armored/mechanized force around Homs and with the US, UK and France all demanding Assad withdraw those forces, raising the spectre of foreign intervention - this Turkish report becomes more believable.
1 posted on 12/11/2011 11:46:58 AM PST by jhpigott
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To: maquiladora; Mariner; nuconvert

ping


2 posted on 12/11/2011 11:47:33 AM PST by jhpigott (North Korea - The land of lousy options)
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To: jhpigott
Looks like the Syrians learned from Libya
3 posted on 12/11/2011 11:48:06 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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So that’s where all the WMDs we watched being trucked across the Iraq-Syrian border ended up...


4 posted on 12/11/2011 11:50:41 AM PST by null and void (Day 1055 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes arent made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: jhpigott
When do the “0bama lied, people died” chants start?
5 posted on 12/11/2011 11:52:23 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: 2banana

Looks as if they learned well.


6 posted on 12/11/2011 11:55:44 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: null and void

lol see my tagline.It was reported in the news that they were moved via semi but to this day people say bad intel?


7 posted on 12/11/2011 12:00:59 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: null and void

my bad I meant to say see my screen name/handle


8 posted on 12/11/2011 12:01:55 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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The proper response is to advise all Syrian military officers and civilian leaders that the use of chemical weapons will result in the death penalty for all involved.

Summary (no trial) execution by whatever military force captures them.


9 posted on 12/11/2011 12:03:26 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

They use Chemical weapons on Nato troops or ships and nations like France will reply with Atomic weapons. No advantage here.


10 posted on 12/11/2011 12:03:40 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: null and void

So that’s where all the WMDs we watched being trucked across the Iraq-Syrian border ended up...

Everyone who was paying attention at the time knew that ... but the MSN poo-poo’d the whole idea, and so it was forgotten.


11 posted on 12/11/2011 12:09:59 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Assad and his henchmen know their ONLY chance of survival is to hold Syria.

Absent that, they all die horrible and humiliating deaths.

12 posted on 12/11/2011 12:10:58 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: PIF

The MSM is really good at poo-poo...


13 posted on 12/11/2011 12:11:33 PM PST by null and void (Day 1055 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes arent made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Mariner

Always give your enemy an out ~ Sun Tzu


14 posted on 12/11/2011 12:13:39 PM PST by null and void (Day 1055 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes arent made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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Also of note: The US, Israel and NATO combined do not have the capability of getting ALL of these missile at once.

If a fight breaks out a lot of people are going to die. 10s of thousands.

15 posted on 12/11/2011 12:16:12 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Or you can just stay out of Syria


16 posted on 12/11/2011 12:23:03 PM PST by omega4179 (We can't wait!............. for the end of an error.....1-20-13)
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The MSM is really good at poo-poo...
Unfortunately, because of all their poo-poo, we are now in deep doo-doo.
17 posted on 12/11/2011 12:24:48 PM PST by Scutter
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To: Mariner

You can bet the Egyptian military brass have figured this out as well.


18 posted on 12/11/2011 12:24:56 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mariner

Lets hope Assad keeps stomping Sunni ass then. Alawites did not do 9/11 or attack the USA.


19 posted on 12/11/2011 12:25:41 PM PST by omega4179 (We can't wait!............. for the end of an error.....1-20-13)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
nations like France will reply with Atomic weapons white surrender hankies......
20 posted on 12/11/2011 12:30:43 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Be good, Santa is coming)
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