Sweet
Mother have mercy on all of us.
The
use of Sarin is a war crime under UN rules. Henery Kissinger and the
US did it in SE Asia and the Mid East.
These
are the trip words for war. The lies more egregious than Saddam being
involved in 9-11 and having WMD.
These
words have been uttered and now transported into consciousness by the
mainstream press.
This is the move on Iran.
--Mike Ruppert
Syria
loads chemical weapons into bombs; military awaits Assad's order
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.
NBC,
5
December, 2012
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."
Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated U.S. warnings to Assad not
to use chemical weapons, saying he would be crossing "a red
line" if he did so.
Speaking
Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Clinton said the Syrian
government was on the brink of collapse, raising the prospect that
"an increasingly desperate Assad regime" might turn to
chemical weapons or that the banned weapons could fall into other
hands.
Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking Wednesday at NATO
headquarters in Brussels, said the fall of Syrian President Bashar
Assad's government was "inevitable."
"Ultimately,
what we should be thinking about is a political transition in Syria
and one that should start as soon as possible," Clinton said.
"We believe their fall is inevitable. It is just a question of
how many people have to die before that occurs."
Aides
told NBC News that Clinton was expected next week to officially
recognize the main opposition movement, the National Coalition of
Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, with which she is
scheduled to meet in Morocco. Britain, France, Turkey and some key
Arab leaders have already recognized the opposition.
Fighting
intensified Wednesday in the 21-month civil war, which has left
40,000 people dead. The U.N. withdrew its personnel from Damascus,
saying conditions were too dangerous.
The
government said this week that it wouldn't use chemical weapons on
its own people after President Barack Obama warned that doing so
would be "totally unacceptable."
But
U.S. officials said this week that the government had ordered its
Chemical Weapons Corps to "be prepared," which Washington
interpreted as a directive to begin bringing together the components
needed to weaponize Syria's chemical stockpiles.
That
process would involve mixing "precursor" chemicals for the
deadly nerve gas sarin, which could be used in artillery shells, U.S.
officials told NBC News, stressing that there was no evidence that
process had as yet begun.
U.S. officials had long
believed that the Syrian government was stockpiling the banned
chemical weapons before it acknowledged possessing them this summer.
NBC
News reported in July that U.S. intelligence agencies believed that
in addition to sarin, Syria had access to tabun, a chemical nerve
agent, as well as traditional chemical weapons like mustard gas and
hydrogen cyanide.
Officials
told NBC News at the time that the Syrian government was moving the
outlawed weapons around the country, leaving foreign intelligence
agencies unsure where they might end up.
Syria
is one of only seven nations that hasn't ratified the 1992 Chemical
Weapons Convention, the arms control agreement that outlaws the
production, stockpiling and use of such weapons.
Bombshells
filled with chemicals can be carried by Syrian Air Force
fighter-bombers, in particular Sukhoi-22/20, MiG-23 and Sukhoi-24
aircraft. In addition, some reports indicate that unguided
short-range Frog-7 artillery rockets may be capable of carrying
chemical payloads.
In
terms of longer-range delivery systems, Syria has a few dozen SS-21
ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 72 miles; 200 Scud-Bs,
with a maximum range of 180 miles; and 60 to 120 Scud-Cs, with a
maximum range of 300 miles, all of which are mobile and are capable
of carrying chemical weapons, according U.S. intelligence officials.
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