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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. Official: Syria Mixing Chemicals for Sarin Gas
2012-12-04
[An Nahar] Syria has begun mixing chemicals that can be used to make deadly sarin gas, a U.S. official told AFP Monday, amid fears that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's forces could attack rebels with chemical weapons.

"We've picked up several indications which lead us to believe that they're combining chemical precursors," the official said, on condition of anonymity, adding that the operation was apparently aimed at making sarin.

Earlier, CNN said that Washington believed that Assad's regime was considering the feasibility of putting sarin into artillery shells for use in a limited chemical strike against opposition soldiers, the report said.

U.S. officials stressed to the news channel that they did not believe that Assad had made a final decision on mounting such a strike.

Sarin, used in two terror attacks in Japan in the 1990s, is a man-made nerve agent which can cause convulsions, respiratory failure and death.
Posted by:Fred

#6  and thanks to the asshole Turks

You can also thank the State Department, who not only leaked details of negotiations, but made it appear that other, unrelated aid was tied to letting the 3rd through Turkey.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-12-04 22:05  

#5  Anyone have any questions where Iraq's nerve gas supplies went all those years ago? Trucks into the Bekka valley before the attack, and thanks to the asshole Turks, the 3rd Infantry wasn't there to shut the door on the escape route and capture/destroy those transports.
Posted by: OldSpook   2012-12-04 21:40  

#4  ..if she swung that way, Bill probably would never had strayed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-12-04 09:19  

#3  Don't you mean US sec. state will come & kiss his glutei maximi, RiV?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-12-04 08:12  

#2  Well, if he uses the Sarin, Hillary has said it will be a red line. So, the US will ask the UN to issue a VERY strongly worded resolution of disapproval.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-12-04 07:55  

#1  first off, it appears that the ME has dodged a bullet twice when to comes to the release of nuclear or chemical toxins. first with the shutdown at the Bushehr Reactor, and now with the chemical weapons under Assad (although that's not over yet). the world is coming closer to seeing a major disaster than it has for a long time.

but the question you have to ask is this ... how much bribery does it take for Al Qaeda to get its hands on sarin now? if binary components have already been mixed, what more do they need to do? Offer $1 million and a plane ticket to anywhere in the world. $5 mil ... #10 mil?? Everyone has their price.
Posted by: Raider   2012-12-04 01:17  

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