"Syria’s WMDs: The Scaremongering Begins Anew (for another war for Israel)
August 29th, 2011 | Author: Patriot
What do a 1995 attack on a Japanese subway system, the crumbling security at Libyan military bases and al-Qaeda’s putative ambitions to create a “dirty bomb” have in common? They all sound scary, and therefore all fit (albeit with no small handwaving) into the latest narrative of the “threat” of Syria.
With the ink barely dried on the latest calls for NATO intervention in Syria, the Washington Post has emerged with an article brimming with unrelated factoids, most of which have not even a cursory relation to Syria, arguing that the nation’s WMD arsenal is something to be greatly feared.
The timing is brazen, being paired with another Washington Post article on rebel calls for NATO to attack the nation. It also comes just days after Dick Cheney, busily parlaying his book and the media’s notoriously short term memory into a restoration from hawkish caricature to “gravitas” wielding elder statesman, lamented his inability to start a war in Syria.
The fast and loose effort to cram anything and everything into the article is equally telling, as vague mentions of “dirty bombs” using fuel rods that Syria does not possess in particularly useful numbers combine with theories about nerve gas somehow polluting the world’s drinking water and food playing equal roles in a familiar game: frightening the public about an illusory enemy on the eve of dropping a bomb about the administration’s intentions to drop literal bombs on them.
That such a fanciful tale worked in the past was shameful enough. That it is being tried again while the occupation of the last “WMD threat” is still going on is nothing short of shocking.
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"Syrian unrest raises chemical weapons fears; Security of stockpile may be threatened" August 29, 2011|By Joby Warrick, Washington Post
WASHINGTON - In 2008, a secret State Department cable warned of a growing chemical weapons threat from a Middle Eastern country whose autocratic leader had a long history of stirring up trouble in the region. The leader, noted for his “support for terrorist organizations,’’ was attempting to buy technology from other countries to upgrade an already fearsome stockpile of deadly poisons, the department warned.
The Middle Eastern state with the dangerous chemicals was not Libya, whose modest stockpile was thrust into the spotlight last week because of fighting there. It was Syria, another violence-torn Arab state whose advanced weapons are drawing new concern as the country drifts toward an uncertain future.
A sudden collapse of the government of President Bashar Assad could mean a breakdown in controls over Syria’s weapons, US officials and weapons specialists said in interviews. And while Libya’s chemical arsenal consists of unwieldy canisters filled mostly with mustard gas, the World War I-era blistering agent, Syria possesses some of the deadliest chemicals ever to be weaponized, dispersed in thousands of artillery shells and warheads that are easy to transport.
Syria’s preferred poison is sarin, the nerve agent that killed 13 people and sickened about 1,000 during a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. Sarin, which is lethal if inhaled even in minute quantities, can also be used to contaminate water and food supplies.
So WHEN is the FALSE FLAG ATTACK, WaPo!?!?
Although many analysts doubt that Assad would deliberately share chemical bombs with terrorists, it is conceivable that weapons could vanish amid the chaos of an uprising that destroys Syria’s vaunted security services, which safeguard the munitions.
“A lot of people are watching this closely, ’’ said a US security official who monitors events in Syria.
Syria first developed chemical weapons in the 1970s and slowly amassed a sophisticated arsenal under the close supervision of then-President Hafez Assad and, later, his son Bashar, the current president. Using technology obtained in part from Russian scientists, the Assads sought to create a strategic deterrent against Israel, its vastly more powerful southern neighbor, whose forces humiliated Syrian troops in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and captured the strategic Syrian plateau known as the Golan Heights.
Many countries, including the United States and Russia, gradually eliminated their chemical-weapons arsenals, but Syria refused to sign the UN Chemical Weapons convention and proceeded to develop a larger and deadlier stockpile.
I guess using white phosphorus on people doesn't count.
Hey, what's one more lie coming from the AmeriKan newspaper, 'eh?
The CIA has concluded that Syria possesses a large stockpile of sarin-based warheads and was working on developing VX, a deadlier nerve agent that resists breaking down in the environment.
This the same CIA that Dick Cheney says was wrong?
By early in the last decade, some weapons specialists ranked Syria’s chemical stockpile as probably the largest in the world, consisting of tens of tons of highly lethal chemical agents and hundreds of Scud missiles as well as lesser rockets, artillery rockets, and bomblets for delivering the poisons.
They are REALLY SHOVELING the SHIT, aren't they?
Jeffrey Feltman, the State Department’s chief diplomat for the Middle East, last year cited Syria’s chemical weapons program as a primary reason for continuing US economic sanctions against the Assad regime.
The 2008 State Department cable, obtained and made public by the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, was prompted by a Syrian attempt to obtain glass-lined reactors and other high-tech equipment from a private Indian firm....
Which DAMN NEAR PROVES Wikileaks is an ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OPERATION! WHO BENEFITS from THIS RELEASE?
Ever notice the Wikileaks ALWAYS BOLSTERS the ZIONIST AGENDA?
What do you think all the SPYING was FOR?
Western officials have been less concerned about Libya’s chemical stockpile, which was all but dismantled after Moammar Khadafy agreed about eight years ago to renounce weapons of mass destruction. In reality, it was never especially impressive, having barely advanced beyond early 20th-century technology, weapons specialists say.
Then WHY WAS IT SUCH a BIG DEAL for SO LONG?
Why was the "news" ONCE AGAIN a DISTORTION?
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Also see: Ambassador Oren: Israel is very concerned about Syrian WMDs
And thus we get a Wikileak in the AmeriKan paper, 'eh?
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Yeah, it is pretty damn obvious now, and why I am sick of reading the s***.
