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Syrian defector: Of course Assad kept hundreds of tons of chemical weapons |
2017-04-18 |
[Hot Air] Get ready for more red-lining from Bashar al-Assad. Despite claims from Russia and the Syrian dictator himself that he fully disarmed his chemical-weapons program, a high-ranking defector tells the UK Telegraph that Assad still has hundreds of tons of those munitions stockpiled for use by his military. General Zaher al-Sakat says that includes sarin gas, the munitions used against a village in Idlib province that provoked a military strike from the US in reprisal (via Guy Benson):President Bashar al-Assad continues to retain hundreds of tonnes of his country’s chemical stockpile after deceiving United Nations inspectors sent in to dismantle it, according to Syria’s former chemical weapons research chief and other experts. How does Sakat know this? As one of Assad’s brigadier generals, he received orders to carry out these attacks. He claims that he ordered the deadly chemicals replaced with harmless substances, and then defected over the genocidal nature of the regime: Sakat has said in the past that he himself was ordered to carry out chemical strikes on three different occasions before he defected. In those instances he switched out the deadly agents in the bombs for harmless chemicals. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#1 on his people And there we have the root problem with the fascist, socialist, communist, progressive left philosophy. They are NOT his people. Until the individual reigns supreme and the government works for the people in the ideal as expressed in the US is supposed to work tyrants will continue to commit these crimes. |
Posted by: AlanC 2017-04-18 08:30 |