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Assad Will Use Chemical Weapons: Top Defector
AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 17 July 2012 | AFP

Posted on 07/17/2012 6:34:25 AM PDT by edpc

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will use chemical weapons against opposition forces and may have already deployed them, Nawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassador to defect, told the BBC on Monday.

Fares, the most prominent politician to defect since the uprising against Assad began, insisted that the president's days were numbered but warned he would be prepared "to eradicate the entire Syrian people" to remain in power.

When asked by the BBC's Frank Gardner whether that would mean the use of chemical weapons, Fares said: "I am convinced that if Bashar al-Assad's regime is further cornered by the people -- he would use such weapons."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; chemicalweapons; middleeast; syria; waronterror; wmd
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Are we being thrown another "Curveball" here?
1 posted on 07/17/2012 6:34:33 AM PDT by edpc
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Sounds like Iraq part 2. In other words bullshit...


2 posted on 07/17/2012 6:37:42 AM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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“Are we being thrown another “Curveball” here?”

What does that mean? A curveball thrown by whom?


3 posted on 07/17/2012 6:38:28 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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I was going to say the same thing. A curve ball by whom? Do we even know who the bad guys are in this one? The uprising and most of the people are Muslim Brotherhood backround or influenced and Syrian govt. are muslims. They are taking care of their probklems by ridding themselves of each other, no?


4 posted on 07/17/2012 6:41:21 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: nuconvert

I was going to say the same thing. A curve ball by whom? Do we even know who the bad guys are in this one? The uprising and most of the people are Muslim Brotherhood backround or influenced and Syrian govt. are muslims. They are taking care of their probklems by ridding themselves of each other, no?


5 posted on 07/17/2012 6:41:27 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Doofer

Could these be the chemical weapons (WMD’s) that couldn’t be found in Iraq when BUSH was looking. All those trucks running from Iraq toward Syria weren’t empty. I wonder.


6 posted on 07/17/2012 6:44:37 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( NY Times: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: Blue Highway

There are no good guys in the Middle East, except for Israel.


7 posted on 07/17/2012 6:44:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: nuconvert

“Curveball” was the Iraqi informant who admittedly lied about his involvement in that nation’s WMD program.


8 posted on 07/17/2012 6:45:56 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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Wow, all those WMD’s did come from Iraq after all! /s


9 posted on 07/17/2012 6:46:08 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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Are we being thrown another "Curveball" here?

Yes, by the pro U.S. intervention/involvement in Syria advocates. We need to stay out of it, short of supplying weapons to both sides.
10 posted on 07/17/2012 6:46:17 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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Don’t you want to do some more nation building?


11 posted on 07/17/2012 6:47:13 AM PDT by EEGator
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Assad Will Use Chemical Weapons

Do. Not. Care.

12 posted on 07/17/2012 6:48:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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Hell no, I say, let the Israelis loose and let them take over the whole region.


13 posted on 07/17/2012 6:50:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: edpc

ahh. Well, the Wall St Journal did report last week that intelligence sources picked up Assad moving his chemical weapons around. This defector just seems to be saying that he thinks assad would use them. I think he would, too.


14 posted on 07/17/2012 6:51:21 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: edpc

This is rationalization for defection from the regime


15 posted on 07/17/2012 6:56:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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Sounds good to me. I was just having some fun smacking the hornet’s nest.


16 posted on 07/17/2012 6:58:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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Israel could solve a lot of problems for us, if we’d only let them.


17 posted on 07/17/2012 6:59:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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Agreed, but it isn’t going to happen with our Muzzie CiC.


18 posted on 07/17/2012 7:02:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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Hell no, I say, let the Israelis loose and let them take over the whole region.

They'd be crazy to do so. Controlling the Palis has been enough of a headache. Why would they want to govern the Syrian population?

19 posted on 07/17/2012 7:45:36 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Nothing to see here. Madame Hilary will placate a deal!


20 posted on 07/17/2012 8:27:12 AM PDT by redflash ("A dog is a dog until you look him in the face, then he is Mr. Dog!")
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