echelon1k1
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You'd believe anything wrapped in enough bullshit...i believe the strike is to discourage chemical weapons use.
getting rid of assad has been a desire of his for a long time before this, but unlike more hawkish factions, he has been reluctant to provide much support for the rebels.
U.S. plans for possibility that Assad could lose control of chemical arms cache
Or the fact the residents are even saying it was the jihadists you like to refer to as "rebels" implying some sort of democracy loving group of "freedom fighters"...Last week, fighters from a group that the Obama administration has branded a terrorist organization were among rebels who seized the Sheik Suleiman military base near Aleppo, where research on chemical weapons had been conducted. Rebels are also closing in on another base near Aleppo, known as Safirah, which has served as a major production center for such munitions, according to U.S. officials and analysts.
The opposition Free Syrian Army said it did not find any chemical weapons at the first installation. But the developments have fanned fears that even if Assad does not attack his own people with chemical weapons, he is on the verge of losing control of his formidable arsenal.
A former Syrian general who once led the armys chemical weapons training program said that the main storage sites for mustard gas and nerve agents are supposed to be guarded by thousands of Syrian troops but that they would be easily overrun. The sites are not secure, retired Maj. Gen. Adnan Silou, who defected to the opposition in June, said in an interview near Turkeys border with Syria. Probably anyone from the Free Syrian Army or any Islamic extremist group could take them over, he said.
President Obama and other leaders have warned Assad not to use chemical weapons, saying such a move would be a red line that would force them to take military action. But the White House has been vague about whether and how it would respond if Assad is toppled and Syrias chemical weapons are left unprotected or end up in the hands of anti-
American insurgents.
Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
Libyan Weapons Depot Unguarded, Open to LootersHowever, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.
My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry, said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father described the weapons as having a tube-like structure while others were like a huge gas bottle.
Ghouta townspeople said the rebels were using mosques and private houses to sleep while storing their weapons in tunnels.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and the others died during the chemical weapons attack. That same day, the militant group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, announced that it would similarly attack civilians in the Assad regimes heartland of Latakia on Syrias western coast, in purported retaliation.
By all means keep on goose stepping to the beat of Obamas drum...A major ammunition complex in Libya is unsecured, allowing looters to walk in and steal guided missiles, rockets and artillery shells capable of dispersing chemical warfare agents, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday (see GSN, Sept. 30).
In the desert near Sirte, there was no security for dozens of small armories at the complex, where weapons are removed every day by opposition fighters, paid contractors and others. In one structure, the word "warhead" was stamped on dozens of sealed containers. At another depot, empty chemical agent munitions were found.
There is at present no viable Libyan government-sanctioned force with the capacity to keep freelancer fighters from taking what they please from the warehouses, according to the Journal
