Latest events in Syria

This is nauseating. It's "Ground Hog's Day" from Hell. Each cycle around it gets meaner and uglier and more destructive. From Gulf I, to Gulf II, to Libya, to Syria, to Iran. This is the same bastard who was Joint Chief's Chairman on 9-11. I said a lot to say about him in "Crossing the Rubicon". Wag the dog. Wag the dog. Wag the dog....

---Mike Ruppert

Late Night Thoughts

The story we have been fed by the media is that the Syrian government has chemical weapons and that reliable (sic) intelligence (where have we heard that before) indicates that the regime is shifting the weapons, indicating, presumably that they are prepared to use them.

Obama has warned the Syrian government giving them a red line that they musn't cross..

Watching the television news here in New Zealand there was an item from British ITV which adhered to the script for the most part but also included a segment from an interview with retired Gen. Myers in which he said he was very concerned about chemical and other weapons falling into the hands of al-Qaeda who would have no qualms about using them.

When I checked this it was very hard to find any confirmation other than the video I saw on the TV along with an accompanying ITV article.

No one else seems to have covered this particular angle.

I felt very alarmed hearing this.

Kissinger, Brzezinski, Cheney, Myers – all of these people are truly evil – there's not a shadow of doubt about that.

However, at least some of these people are also capable of realism and someone like Gen Myers might be right in what he is saying.

Think of it in this way. In their desire to reset the whole of the Middle East – to overthrow Bashar Assad and the regime in Iran (and along with it Israel's nemesis, Hezbollah) the Americans have, once again unleashed the forces of militant jihadism.

The regime in Syria are more akin to the old Soviet regime: they do not have any aggressive designs on anyone and unless their back is truly to the wall, are extremely unlikely to use chemical weapons.

However, if the “rebels”, the Jihadists are making advances it is not in the least beyond the realms of the possible that they might get their hands on Syrian chemical and other weapons, and there wouldn't be a single thing that the Americans or the Israelis could do about it.

Syria would certainly have weapons that could hit Israel and the Jihadists would not hesitate for a moment before using them.

And Israel, as we know, has nuclear weapons.

It would not surprise me in the least if, despite the public utterings of Obama if that was not what the Americans are now worried about.

In a scenario like this, all bets would be off.

This is more by way of a vision than a considered analysis. I really don' t believe that any of us possess sufficient information, let alone crystal balls.

I pray that this nightmarish scenario never come to pass, but I cannot see the Syrian government successfully crushing the rebellion. The Arabs and the western powers have seen to that.

Truly time for prayer.

Concerns about chemical weapons in hands of militants

This was the piece I saw on NZ television this evening. It is similar to other coverage on the subject. However , it features the concerns of retired General Richard Myers about the very real dangers of these weapons falling into the hands of Islamist militants.

In his view they would not hesitate to use them.

When I came to post the article it was very difficult to pin down - it appears that Britain's ITV is the only outlet reporting Gen Myers' concerns.

Ex-US military chief's fears over Syria's chemical weapons

General Richard Myers talking to ITV News' Bill Neely. Photo: ITV News

General Richard Myers has been bitten once. He was America's top soldier during the Iraq war, the war in which his soldiers failed to find the weapons of mass destruction that weren't there.

So you might think he'd be cautious. But he's not, about Syria at least.

I met him just hours after President Barack Obama had delivered a very personal warning to Bashar al-Assad about chemical weapons:

    If you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable.

– Barack Obama

Myers listened to Obama at the National Defence University and, in a room there, lined with the memorabilia of conflict from the War of Independence to war today, he told me the real threat was not from Assad using these weapons but from Islamist groups using them, after taking the bases where they are stockpiled.

    If they could get their hands on them, they wouldn't hesitate to use them and some of those events could make the events of 9/11 pale in comparison.

– General Richard Myers

American intelligence has been wrong so many times but on Syria it seems too confident.

Images from American drones and intelligence gleaned from communications intercepts suggest that some of Syria's huge stockpiles of chemical weapons are being moved again. This may be to protect them from capture. Or it may be to prepare them for use.

That is what Senator John McCain believes. He is of course a hawk on Syria as on Afghanistan and on most other military matters.

Senator John McCain. Credit: Reuters

Under the Rotunda dome of his Capitol Hill bunker, the old soldier told me: "This is an escalation by Assad...he may be preparing that capability. This is very, very, very dangerous."

It hardly bears repetition.

American forces have what they call contingency planning to secure chemical weapons bases in Syria. It would take thousands, probably tens of thousands of troops. The US isn't going to send them in any time soon.

So far, America won't even arm rebels or recognise the new opposition coalition. But alarms bells are ringing around the domes of Capitol Hill and in the corridors of the White House. They know they were wrong on Iraq. They can't afford to be wrong twice.

To see the video GO HERE