Damascus – NBC News: Syria Loads Chemical Weapons Into Bombs; Military Awaits Assad’s Order

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    A handout picture released by Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian army soldiers taking up position during a patrol in Darayah area, southern rural Damascus, Syria, 02 December 2012. EPADamascus – The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday.

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    The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said.

    As recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence that the process of mixing the “precursor” chemicals had begun. But Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs.

    Sarin is an extraordinarily lethal agent. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces killed 5,000 Kurds with a single sarin attack on Halabja in 1988.

    U.S. officials stressed that as of now, the sarin bombs hadn’t been loaded onto planes and that Assad hadn’t issued a final order to use them. But if he does, one of the officials said, “there’s little the outside world can do to stop it.”


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    YossiP
    YossiP
    11 years ago

    Please help:

    >> ….But Wednesday, they (officials) said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs.
    >> U.S. officials stressed that as of now, the sarin bombs hadn’t been loaded onto planes..

    So which is it in case someone has plans to go to Syria?

    cynic
    cynic
    11 years ago

    “precursor to sarin”? To set that up Syria would have to develop (so-called) “binary” weapons. That’s where you keep two ugly chemicals near each other, and then mix them together in the bomb at the last moment – where they produce a super deadly weapon.
    It isn’t easy. And I don’t think you get sarin as a result. (Although I wouldn’t swear to that).
    In any event, why anyone – especially NBC – would take statements like this from “anonymous” gov’t sources as any sort of reportable fact… shows that some people just don’t learn from history.

    11 years ago

    Yes there is. It it’s called a no fly zone

    flabergasted
    flabergasted
    11 years ago

    Where is the farshulteneh United Nations??!!

    11 years ago

    Another aspect of Islam bites the dust. They will be completely obliterated (The Assad Regime) for starting a war with dire consequences overall. Lets hope that the innocent are spared.

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    11 years ago

    Impossible that the perpatrators are followers of the “religion of peace” planning to use poison gas on other followers of this “religion of peace”. How can that be?

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    11 years ago

    And the UN is SILENT!! These PEACE Lovers are so silent you can hear a pin drop!! When something drops — we blame the UN!! Their silence and apathy is deafening!! and SICKENING!!

    my4amos
    my4amos
    11 years ago

    Hoping that they can’t reach us with these bombs.