06 December 2012

"crossing a red line"

22 Kislev 5773

Remember when they said just moving it was "crossing a red line?"

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.

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.

...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....

Clinton: Assad May Use Chemical Weapons in Desperation


Report: Syria Loads Chemical Weapons Into Bombs; Military Awaits Assad’s Order

US: Sarin bombs ready for Assad’s “go” order. Israel's odd silence

1 comment:

  1. Apparently he has already used chemical weapons on his civilians, and no one cares about it. All the Western threats seem to be meaningless unless there are surprises waiting for us very soon. The West likely wants to avoid a World War. So they need another pretext to do something that might cause one. In short the only red line that the West really cares about is whether or not Jews build in E1, between Givat Tzarfatit and Ma'aleh Adumim.

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