Syria Military Has Loaded Chemical Weapons, Awaits Order To Fire
Syrian chemical weapons ready to go
U.S. officials say the Syrian military has loaded active chemical weapons into bombs and is awaiting a final order from embattled President Bashar Assad to use the deadly weapons against its own people.
Syrian chemical weapons
NBC News reports that on Wednesday the Syrian military loaded sarin gas into aerial bombs that could be deployed from dozens of aircraft. The last large-scale use of sarin was in 1988, when former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces killed 5,000 Kurds in a single attack.
However, U.S. officials told NBC that the sarin bombs had not yet been loaded onto planes but added if Assad gives the final order, “there’s little the outside world can do to stop it.”
The Syrian government has previously insisted that it would not use chemical weapons against its own people.
For months, the Obama administration has described the Assad regime as being on the verge of collapse. If the Syrian government were to be toppled from outside forces or from within, it would bethe first nation possessing weapons of mass destruction to do so.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has as recently as last week warned of the possibility that Assad could use chemical weapons against his own people. After meeting other NATO foreign ministers in Brussels last week, Clinton told the gathering, “Our concerns are that an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons, or might lose control of them to one of the many groups that are now operating within Syria.”
“We have sent an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line and those responsible would be held to account,” she said.
At the end of the meeting, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen backed up Clinton’s threat, declaring that the international community could take military action against Assad and his forces.
“The possible use of chemical weapons would be completely unacceptable for the whole international community and if anybody resorts to these terrible weapons I would expect an immediate reaction from the international community,” Rasmussen told reporters. source – Yahoo News
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about 6 months ago
Well what do ya expect when the New World Order comes against a dictator who wants to keep his kingdom.
obama: guilty of undeclared wars.
about 6 months ago
..and everyone does know Saddam Hussein sent these for safe hiding.
about 6 months ago
“Red lines” have very little meaning to U.S. Secretary of Fate.
Israel’s red line against Iran’s nuclear development was not considered as being important by U.S. officials.
about 6 months ago
Assad is the head camel jockey of Syria and he wants to kill Syrians with sarin gas. The Syrians are a bunch of Muslim fools. They want to kill us. But instead they are going to kill each other.
Do they need fuel for their jets? How about pilots, do they have enough pilots? What other help can we offer him?
Peace
Robert Walkere
about 6 months ago
The willingness to use “GAS” against their own people does not speak well of their religion.
Of course I can easily see the Obama administration doing the same thing against conservatives in this country.
about 6 months ago
I thought these were the weopons the United States has spent billions of dollars and several years at war looking for. Now they show them off and U.S. does nothing? WTH?
about 6 months ago
Some of the stories here are accurate, others are not. It seems this site just puts up whatever it believes to be the truth. When the US MSM reported a couple of weeks ago, and then again yesterday, that if Syria uses Chemical weapons on it’s people we will have to intervene, that means chemical weapons will be used as a reason for us to intervene. We are the ones that started all that, we armed the rebels, most of whom are Al Queada rebels from other countries and encouraged them to go in there. It is a set stage. Also, if chemical weapons are used, guess where they came from? Likely the same place Saddam Hussien got his from, mostly us. It is none of our business what they do in their countries, we need to mind our own business.
about 6 months ago
THE anti-christ has came to power just for the purpose of PUNCHING nosey america in their big fat nose,the death toll will be terrible,americans have always loved seeing dead children in the streets,now there going to get to see it in there front yard,that ot to make them happy,of course the news media won’t even see their death coming cause there all morons and demons of the anti-christ,soon ending ,YES the truth is, the GOVERNMENT is rotten to the CORE TOP TO BOTTOM,there all on the take,they all work for the queen whore drug dealer of england,BRAKING the american people is all they need to control the whole world,and there working on it,BUT THERES A REALLY BIG FLY IN THE OINTMENT,….”AMERICANS HAVE GUNS” how to get their guns without making them so mad they attack the traitors running the show,and HANG them before they can take over…this is the main problem………
about 6 months ago
THE LORD SAYS,theres something coming from SPACE,the commies in government know this and will LAUNCH THERE ATTACK at the same time as all hell brakes lose because of it, GET READY,THIS AIN’T NO JOKE, the GOVERNMENT HAS SPENT BILLIONS in under cities for them selves to be safe when it happens and he’s telling HIS CHILDREN,HIS CLOCK STRICKS,MIDNIGHT ON,DEC.21,2012,GET READY YOUR OUT OF TIME……………………….
about 6 months ago
YEA,YEA all syrian bombs have english written on them so western media can read what it says,NO,NO they were’nt made in america,that would be a war crime and all good americans know we would never do that,KILL INNOUNCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN in another country,NO,NO we’re christains right ???why do most bombs have english written on them???????even when there in countries like IRACK or saudia aribia,or countries we’er fighting because of the weapons of mass destruction??????WHO IN THE USA SET THESE GUYS UP………maybe our own government,no,no they wouldn’t do that would they???suitcase nukes made in america,to be used on americans,no,no,they wouldn’t do that,would they??poison gas,sprayed from a jet made by BOEING in seattle washington,just for spraying poison chemicals,no,no they love us,OH wait a minute ,thats right BOEING is owned by the queen whore drug dealer of england ,OH my……