First look: Syrian Chemical Weapons to Set Sail
You inspect that cargo?
US offers to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons offshore
They are going to dump them in the ocean after they "neutralize" them.
If you believe that from a media and government that is hushing up Fukushima and let BP sheen and corex the Gulf, well.... maybe I'm asking the wrong questions. Not trying to insult or anything, but you believing' them anymore?
Ships to haul Syrian chemical agents
As a harsh snow storm struck the region.
When can "we" get underway, dammit?!!?
"Plan to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons faces delay; Logistics, civil war put pressure on deadlines" by Mike Corder | Associated Press, December 18, 2013
THE HAGUE — The United States will use a mobile Field Deployable Hydrolysis System to process the most toxic chemicals, making them unusable as weapons.
The disarmament plan came into being after global outrage at a sarin attack on a Damascus suburb in August that killed hundreds of people, including many children....
Yeah, except as it turns out long after the continued repetition of the conventional myth media, they U.N. teams never found evidence of sarin use in that attack and the opposition-provided video has proven to be staged and scripted fraud (sigh)!
In a separate development Tuesday, a minister in Britain’s Foreign Office accused the Syrian government of effectively murdering a UK doctor held in Syrian custody. Dr. Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon from London, was seized by government troops in Aleppo, Syria, in November 2012 after he entered the country on a humanitarian mission.
Translation: he worked for MI6.
Hugh Robertson, the head of the foreign office’s Mideast remit, lashed out at Syrian authorities, saying ‘‘the fact remains’’ that Khan went to Syrian to help the people there suffering amid a civil war.
Of course, if he was a spy the obfuscating ma$$ media would tell us, right?
‘‘There is no excuse whatsoever for the treatment that he has suffered by the Syrian authorities who have in effect murdered a British national who was in their country to help people,’’ Robertson said.
That rouse you Brits for a war?!!
The Foreign Office had said earlier that it was ‘‘extremely concerned’’ by reports Khan had died in detention and that if true the responsibility for Khan’s death lies with Syrian authorities.
Okay, let's spin that around and place it on British leadership. Surely some of their prisoner/terrorists suspects have died in custody, if not British citizens.
There was no immediate response from the Syrian government.
I think I kinda did it for them, ands suspect they didn't want to talk to AP.
Khan’s brother Afroze Khan, 34, said the Syrian security agency had promised that he would be freed this week, but when his mother went to visit him Monday, she was told that he had died. That is tragic in any circumstances.
Feel the pull on the heartstrings.
Of course, AmeriKa has a problem with police gunning us down and beating us up, so.... how many moms are told had to do it, authority absolved by themselves under suspicious circumstances?
A spokesman for George Galloway, a member of Parliament, said Syrian officials told him that prison guards who had taken breakfast to Abbas Khan on Monday had returned to check on him two hours later and found him hanging by his pajama bottoms from a hook in his cell.
My government calls those suicides.
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Sometimes I wonder how he may have disappeared.
Related: Syria’s chemical deadline looming
They met it!
"Chemicals for arms removed from Syria; First batch sails on Danish ship" by Diaa Hadid and Mike Corder | Associated Press, January 08, 2014
BEIRUT — The first batch of the most dangerous chemicals in Syria’s arsenal was loaded onto a Danish ship and taken out of the country Tuesday under tight security, an important milestone in the international operation to rid President Bashar Assad of the weapons by midyear.
The operation at Syria’s port of Latakia took place against the backdrop of a widening civil war and escalating infighting between a chaotic mix of Syrian rebel brigades and an Al Qaeda-linked militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
With the rebel-on-rebel fighting now in its fifth day, the shadowy leader of another faction affiliated with Al Qaeda pleaded with his comrades to stop the spreading clashes, warning it threatened to upend gains made against Syrian government forces.
The chemicals were supposed to have been removed from Syria by Dec. 31, but poor security, bad weather, and other factors meant the deadline was missed by a week.
The raw materials — precursor chemicals for poison gas — were moved to the government-held port of Latakia from two sites in Syria and loaded onto the Danish cargo ship, which then set sail, said Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch diplomat coordinating the joint mission by the UN and Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
‘‘The vessel has now left the port of Latakia for international waters,’’ Kaag said in a statement. ‘‘It will remain at sea awaiting the arrival of additional priority chemical materials at the port.’’
Security for the highly toxic cargo is being provided by warships from Russia, China, Denmark, and Norway.
I can see why they would want to keep an eye on things, and let's hope no storm at sea dumps the ship and its cargo, 'eh? Whose idea was it to do this?
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the progress.
The chemicals removed Tuesday will eventually be transferred to a US ship, the Cape Ray, which has been fitted with special machinery.
Where they can then be readied for use in false flags....
Once aboard the American vessel, the materials will be placed in a titanium reactor that uses heated water and other chemicals to render the weapons inert.
And then dump 'em into the ocean!
The confirmed use of chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on Aug. 21 killed hundreds of people, according to the US government.
NOT! LIE! STOP!
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has alienated its opposition rivals, including the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, for its extremely brutal tactics, including the kidnapping and killing of opponents, journalists, and antigovernment activists who criticize its practices. Moderate forces among the opposition accuse the group of tarnishing the Syrian revolution and serving Assad’s interests....
Meaning it is CIA-Duh, folks!
The rising influence of Al Qaeda extremists among rebel ranks has dampened US support for the rebellion, and rebel infighting is further undermining the fight against Assad....
I'm trying to type with a straight face.
The rebel infighting adds another hardship to an already-suffering population....
In the rare audio recording posted on a militant website, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the head of Jabhat al-Nusra, pleaded for an end to infighting, but suggested the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant brought it on itself....
I'm glad the NSA is monitoring that.
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Italy
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Oh, that makes me feel all safe and secure everything is on the up-and-up.
"US slams Syria over missed chemical arms deadlines" by RICK GLADSTONE and THOM SHANKER | New York Times, January 31, 2014
The criticisms, expressed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the US ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Robert P. Mikulak, were posted on the State Department’s website, another message that the United States wanted its criticism known outside the executive council’s chambers....
Can you hear the rattle of the war sabers?!! Can you!!!!??
Related: Nobel Peace Prize Purely Political
Must be why I'm no longer paying attention to the back-slapping, self-aggrandizing, ego-inflating, agenda-pushing awards.
Earlier Thursday, Hagel had expressed the Obama administration’s frustration with the Syrian government over the chemical weapons issue. He spoke in Warsaw, Poland, after a meeting with the Polish defense minister, Tomasz Siemoniak.
I never like seeing a U.S. leader and his administration as being frustrated or impatient because it always signals military action with a devastating arsenal at his disposal.
Eat the frustration like we do, and cool down!
“The United States is concerned that the Syrian government is behind in delivering these chemical weapons and precursor materials on time, and with the schedule that was agreed to,” Hagel said.
Yeah, okay, fine. Be concerned.
He also said he had spoken to his Russian counterpart, Sergei K. Shoigu, by telephone Wednesday, and asked him to use Moscow’s influence with Assad’s government to speed up compliance.
Just fantasizing here, readers, but I imagine he is told Hagel is on the line and the response is great. He gets the receiver, hears the complaint, and then says one word -- Ukraine -- and hangs up.
Related: Russia vows Syria will dump chemical arms
God-damn reasonable Russians!
Assad said in an interview with Agence France-Presse last week that he partly blamed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for what Assad called its slow response to Syrian requests for equipment to safely transport the chemicals.
Yeah, well, you see, they drag their feet and then you ain't in compliance and gotta go! Don't you get it (I know they do)?
The organization declined to comment on Assad’s criticism, but nonproliferation experts and diplomats have said privately that Syria had been supplied with everything it needs.
Yeah, it's their fault.
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Why not just dump 'em in the ocean themselves, like the nuclear waste the EU dumps of the Somali coast?
"Meanwhile, the Syrian government missed another deadline for destroying its chemical weapons Wednesday, but pledged to complete the process by June 30, as promised."
Then go get Saddam Assad, 'er, ah, uh.... want to flip over that record?
"Saturday, Syria’s foreign ministry said Damascus is preparing to transport ‘‘a large amount’’ of chemical agents in order to be shipped outside the country. The ministry’s statement came two days after the UN Security Council called on Syria to speed up the removal of its most harmful chemical weapons agents from the country, expressing ‘‘growing concern’’ at several missed deadlines."
Do I look concerned?
Better find another way to get us rabid for war 'cause this one don't fly.
Btw, where are the charges and impatience with the nations that have actually used this stuff in battle -- the formidable nations of the EUSraeli Empire and their chemical weapons deployment?
Why not just dump 'em in the ocean themselves, like the nuclear waste the EU dumps of the Somali coast?
"Meanwhile, the Syrian government missed another deadline for destroying its chemical weapons Wednesday, but pledged to complete the process by June 30, as promised."
Then go get Saddam Assad, 'er, ah, uh.... want to flip over that record?
"Saturday, Syria’s foreign ministry said Damascus is preparing to transport ‘‘a large amount’’ of chemical agents in order to be shipped outside the country. The ministry’s statement came two days after the UN Security Council called on Syria to speed up the removal of its most harmful chemical weapons agents from the country, expressing ‘‘growing concern’’ at several missed deadlines."
Do I look concerned?
Better find another way to get us rabid for war 'cause this one don't fly.
Btw, where are the charges and impatience with the nations that have actually used this stuff in battle -- the formidable nations of the EUSraeli Empire and their chemical weapons deployment?
