"Syria had help stockpiling nerve gas; Soviet Union, Iran, even US firms pitched in" by David E. Sanger and Andrew W. Lehren | New York Times, September 08, 2013
WASHINGTON — Syria’s top leaders amassed one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons with help from the Soviet Union and Iran, as well as Western European suppliers and even a handful of American companies, according to US diplomatic cables and declassified intelligence records.
Hmm, where did these come from just as we push to war?
And didn't these bastards say the same thing about Iraq? Stockpiles! He was even getting a nuke!
While an expanding group of nations banded together in the 1980s to try to block the Syrian effort, prohibiting the sale of goods that would bolster the growing chemical weapons stockpile, the archives show that Syria’s governing Assad family exploited large loopholes, lax enforcement, and a far greater international emphasis on limiting the spread of nuclear arms.
Now, as President Obama confronts enormous difficulties in rallying a reluctant Congress and a skeptical world to punish the Syrian government with a military strike over its apparent use of deadly nerve agents last month, he appears to be facing a similar challenge to the one that allowed the Assads to accumulate their huge stockpile.
Actually, it's not the limited strike blah-blah they imply, but having my war-promoting media lie to me once again is nothing new. This is putridly pathetic propaganda.
While countries around the world condemned Syria for adding to its arsenal as most nations were eliminating their own chemical weapons, few challenged the buildup, and some were eager to profit from it. “It was frustrating,” Juan C. Zarate, a former deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism in the George W. Bush administration, recalled Friday.
It'$ at the bottom of everything!
“People tried. There were always other understandably urgent priorities — Iran’s nuclear program, North Korea,” Zarate said. “It was an issue that was always there, but never rose to the top of the world’s agenda.”
And now, on the eve on Obomber's attack it is! Imagine that!
Proliferation experts said President Bashar Assad of Syria and his father before him, former President Hafez Assad, were greatly helped in their chemical weapons ambitions by a basic underlying fact: often innocuous, legally exportable materials are also the precursors to manufacturing deadly chemical weapons.
Meaning any modern country can be accused of having chemical weapons.
You have a hospital or drug manufacturer of medicine factory in your country? There ya' go!
Soon after Obama came to office, newly installed officials grew increasingly alarmed by the ease with which Assad was using a network of front companies to import the precursors needed to make VX and sarin, deadly chemical poisons that are internationally banned, according to leaked diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks, the antisecrecy group.
Oh.
People who have noted that Israel is somehow never harmed, which tells you a lot, as does what you are getting out of them. This constant advancement of the Israeli war agenda at just the right time sure is damn suspicious.
Related: Wikileaks Ignored "Al-CIA-Duh"
It's one giant intelligence snare, folks.
Sarin gas has been identified by the United States as the agent loaded atop small rockets on Aug. 21 and shot into the densely populated suburbs of Damascus, killing more than 1,400 people, according to administration officials.
The death toll is not questioned, and neither is the lying charge from the government. It's time to stop reading this s***. This is what we in AmeriKa are chomping down on for pre$$ coverage.
The growth of Syria’s capability was the subject of a sharply worded secret cable transmitted by the State Department under Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name in the fall of 2009.
It instructed diplomats to “emphasize that failure to halt the flow” of chemicals and equipment into Syria, Iran, and North Korea could render irrelevant a group of anti-proliferation countries that organized to stop that flow. The cable was included in a trove of State Department messages leaked to WikiLeaks in 2010.
And we are just having it presented to us now, huh?
Can the CONTROLLED INTELLIGENCE OPERATION be anymore OBVIOUS?
Another leaked State Department cable on the Syrians asserted that “part of their modus operandi is to hide procurement under the guise of legitimate pharmaceutical or other transactions.”
Publicly, US officials contend that they have done much since then to limit the flow of raw materials that feed Syria’s chemical weapons industry, in particular Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center, which has been identified as a government enterprise for weapons development.
Apparently not enough.
Israel struck a missile convoy outside the center in January, US intelligence officials have said, on suspicions that weapons were headed for delivery to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Yeah, Israel can bomb whoever they want and no outrage.
“For several years, the Treasury Department, working with our partners across the U.S. government, has taken steps to expose and disrupt the Syrian regime’s WMD proliferation activities,” David S. Cohen, the Treasury undersecretary in charge of sanctions, said in an e-mailed statement. “We will continue to use all of our authorities to undermine the Syrian government’s WMD proliferation efforts within Syria as well as around the world.”
Do I need to type it? Do I?
The diplomatic cables and other intelligence documents show that, over time, the two generations of Assads built up a huge stockpile by creating companies with the appearance of legitimacy, importing chemicals that had many legitimate uses, and capitalizing on the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This is gross, and it was also the Jewish mafia that capitali$ed on that.
A Russian general responsible for dismantling Soviet chemical weapons, who died a decade ago, was identified by a colleague as the man who helped the Syrian government establish its program.
As early as 1991, under the first Bush presidency, a now declassified National Intelligence Estimate concluded that “both Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union provided the chemical agents, delivery systems and training that flowed to Syria.”
The same report concluded that Syria most likely possessed 1,100-pound aerial bombs containing sarin — larger than the warheads mounted atop rockets that killed so many in the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21.
And Saddam had nook-u-lar bombs!
In a few instances, American companies became players in Syria’s efforts to add to the sophistication of its stores.
Yeah, but let's save that for the final afterthought paragraph.
One of the best-known cases in the United States involved a Waterville, Maine, company once known as Maine Biological Laboratories. The company and several top executives were found guilty of allowing a series of shipments to Syria in 2001, including restricted biological agents.
Is that what the Syrians are going to drop on us in the next false flag attack?
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Globe must be soaked in sarin because I'm started to feel sick.
UPDATE:
"As With Iraq, New York Times Propagates Demonstrable Lies About Syrian WMD" by Jeremy R. Hammond, September 8, 2013
A headline in the New York Times yesterday
stated as fact that “With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas”.
The lead paragraph asserted that “Syria’s top leaders amassed one of
the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons with help from the
Soviet Union and Iran, as well as Western European suppliers and even a
handful of American companies, according to American diplomatic cables
and declassified intelligence records.”
But
as with its propagandistic reporting about Saddam Hussein’s possession
of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the run-up to the Iraq war, the Times provided no evidence to support its claim, and an examination of publicly available documents the Times cited for this story illustrates how the newspaper is demonstrably lying....
Once again, it is evident that America’s “newspaper of record” is serving as a mouthpiece for the U.S. government, not only uncritically parroting claims of government officials for which there is no evidence, but going out of its way to propagate its own deliberate lies in such a way as to manufacture consent for U.S. foreign policy.
Once again, it is evident that America’s “newspaper of record” is serving as a mouthpiece for the U.S. government, not only uncritically parroting claims of government officials for which there is no evidence, but going out of its way to propagate its own deliberate lies in such a way as to manufacture consent for U.S. foreign policy.
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Oh, what a surprise.
