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Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 11:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning [link to blogs.aljazeera.com] |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 11:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning 17:15 The Free Syrian Army is shelling the military airport in Deir az-Zour with mortar rounds, activists reported. To read more: [link to www.nowlebanon.com] |
dikkie User ID: 1328988 Netherlands 12/03/2012 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel REU: SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN JIHAD MAKDISSI HAS DEFECTED -REGIONAL DIPLOMATIC SOURCE Diplomatic sources tell Reuters news agency, Syrian Foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi has defected. [link to blogs.aljazeera.com] |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 12:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning 18:44 The Syrian army is shelling the villages surrounding the Ground Forces Academy in Aleppo, Al-Jazeera reported. [link to www.nowlebanon.com] |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 12:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Report: Iran suggests Assad's time is running out Iranian parliament speaker offers to host Syrian president when his regime is toppled, Lebanese paper reports Roi Kais Published: 12.03.12, 15:36 [link to www.ynetnews.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28999608 Italy 12/03/2012 12:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning UN pulls "non-essential" Syria staff due insecurity GENEVA, Dec 3 - The United Nations said on Monday it was withdrawing "all non-essential international staff" from Syria due to the worsening security situation, and was restricting remaining staff to the capital. |
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Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 12:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning White House declines to speculate on what action it would take over Syria; says contingency planning is under way - @Reuters White House: Any use of chemical weapons by Syria regime would cross a red line; US concern about Syria intentions has increased - @Reuters [link to www.breakingnews.com] |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 01:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is in danger of collapse “anytime” as the opposition gains ground on the military and political fronts, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi told AFP on Monday. “That could happen anytime,” the secretary general said in an exclusive interview. “Now they are fighting in Damascus,” and after 20 months of violence, “I think there will be something soon,” he said. [link to www.rawstory.com] |
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Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 01:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Well, now I can see why everyone is having a hissy fit. This is not good . . . Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation tells Danger Room. International observers are now more worried than they’ve even been that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people. The U.S. doesn’t know why the Syrian military made the move, which began in the middle of last week and is taking place in central Syria. Nor are they sure why the Assad government is transferring some weapons to different locations within the country, as the New York Times reported on Monday. All that’s certain is that the arms have now been prepped to be used, should Assad order it. “Physically, they’ve gotten to the point where the can load it up on a plane and drop it,” the official adds. Sarin gas has two main chemical components — isopropanol, popularly known as rubbing alcohol, and methylphosphonyl difluoride. The Assad government has more than 500 metric tons of these precursors, which it ordinarily stores separately, in so-called “binary” form, in order to prevent an accidental release of nerve gas. Last week, that changed. The Syrian military began combining some of the binaries. “They didn’t do it on the whole arsenal, just a modest quantity,” the official says. “We’re not sure what’s the intent.” Back in July, the Assad regime publicly warned that it might use its chemical weapons to stop “external” forces from interfering in Syria’s bloody civil war. The announcement sparked a panic in the intelligence services of the U.S. and its allies, which stepped up their efforts to block shipments of precursors for those weapons from entering the country. “This is a more serious moment than July,” according to the official. [link to www.wired.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29000275 Argentina 12/03/2012 01:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Report: Iran suggests Assad's time is running out Quoting: Newshunter Iranian parliament speaker offers to host Syrian president when his regime is toppled, Lebanese paper reports Roi Kais Published: 12.03.12, 15:36 [link to www.ynetnews.com] thats so pathetic do you know for how long those two countries have remained allied? and now ynetnews come out with this crap? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28536338 United States 12/03/2012 01:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Did we ever find the terrorists that raped and killed out ambassador? But we can find saddam, quadaffi, and other despetes but not some guys that got upset over a video. WTF is wrong with this picture? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28604448 United States 12/03/2012 02:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Well, now I can see why everyone is having a hissy fit. This is not good . . . Quoting: Newshunter Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation tells Danger Room. International observers are now more worried than they’ve even been that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people. The U.S. doesn’t know why the Syrian military made the move, which began in the middle of last week and is taking place in central Syria. Nor are they sure why the Assad government is transferring some weapons to different locations within the country, as the New York Times reported on Monday. All that’s certain is that the arms have now been prepped to be used, should Assad order it. “Physically, they’ve gotten to the point where the can load it up on a plane and drop it,” the official adds. Sarin gas has two main chemical components — isopropanol, popularly known as rubbing alcohol, and methylphosphonyl difluoride. The Assad government has more than 500 metric tons of these precursors, which it ordinarily stores separately, in so-called “binary” form, in order to prevent an accidental release of nerve gas. Last week, that changed. The Syrian military began combining some of the binaries. “They didn’t do it on the whole arsenal, just a modest quantity,” the official says. “We’re not sure what’s the intent.” Back in July, the Assad regime publicly warned that it might use its chemical weapons to stop “external” forces from interfering in Syria’s bloody civil war. The announcement sparked a panic in the intelligence services of the U.S. and its allies, which stepped up their efforts to block shipments of precursors for those weapons from entering the country. “This is a more serious moment than July,” according to the official. [link to www.wired.com] IMO, the reasoning is clear... He is going to gas the FSA and any civillians in the area (you assume he cares) and launch an attack on Israel. When Demascus is nuked he hopes that will unite mulsim terrorists outraqged that syria was nuked after it attacked with chemical/biological weapons. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28998454 Poland 12/03/2012 02:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning So I guess the Bush Administration was right when the intelligence community said that there was a convoy of chemical weapons that was shipped from Iraq to Syria. |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 02:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning 1725 GMT: Syria. Initially, when I heard reports that the Syrian military was moving its chemical weapons (according to US intelligence sources), my response was that the military likely believed it could no longer secure them in their current locations. As the Obama administration had already defined the use or loss of chemical weapons as a "red line," Assad cannot afford to have those bases fall to the insurgents for fear that it would trigger immediate international military intervention - a real possibility. However, CNN's Barbara Starr, who reported on the situation last time chemical weapons were moved, said that all of her sources say that this time it is significantly different - and Assad may be planning to use these weapons: [link to www.enduringamerica.com] |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning 36 martyrs were reported in Aleppo, 28 in Damascus and its Suburbs, 13 in Daraa including 10 in Tafas, 12 in Homs, 10 in Hasakeh, 8 in Idlib, 8 in Hama, 8 in Deir Ezzor and 2 in Lattakia. [link to www.enduringamerica.com] |
Ur1el User ID: 24388158 United States 12/03/2012 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Well, now I can see why everyone is having a hissy fit. This is not good . . . Quoting: Newshunter Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation tells Danger Room. International observers are now more worried than they’ve even been that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people. The U.S. doesn’t know why the Syrian military made the move, which began in the middle of last week and is taking place in central Syria. Nor are they sure why the Assad government is transferring some weapons to different locations within the country, as the New York Times reported on Monday. All that’s certain is that the arms have now been prepped to be used, should Assad order it. “Physically, they’ve gotten to the point where the can load it up on a plane and drop it,” the official adds. Sarin gas has two main chemical components — isopropanol, popularly known as rubbing alcohol, and methylphosphonyl difluoride. The Assad government has more than 500 metric tons of these precursors, which it ordinarily stores separately, in so-called “binary” form, in order to prevent an accidental release of nerve gas. Last week, that changed. The Syrian military began combining some of the binaries. “They didn’t do it on the whole arsenal, just a modest quantity,” the official says. “We’re not sure what’s the intent.” Back in July, the Assad regime publicly warned that it might use its chemical weapons to stop “external” forces from interfering in Syria’s bloody civil war. The announcement sparked a panic in the intelligence services of the U.S. and its allies, which stepped up their efforts to block shipments of precursors for those weapons from entering the country. “This is a more serious moment than July,” according to the official. [link to www.wired.com] IMO, the reasoning is clear... He is going to gas the FSA and any civillians in the area (you assume he cares) and launch an attack on Israel. When Demascus is nuked he hopes that will unite mulsim terrorists outraqged that syria was nuked after it attacked with chemical/biological weapons. i tend to agree. i wouldnt be suprised if damascus wasnt around by jan 1st. |
Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning 1856 GMT: Syria. Two signs that things may be coming to a head in Syria. First, White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the US is already planning "contingency plans" if chemical weapons are used in Syria. No word on what those plans are, but "contingency plans" typically range from special forces operations or surgical airstrikes to full-scale intervention. This may seem liek a small statement, but at no other point in time has the US even recognized the possibility that a military plan was on the table. Also, the UN is pulling all non-essential staff out of Syria: Citing the "prevailing security situation", the organisation has also cancelled all missions to Syria from abroad and suspended its activities inside the war-ravaged country. The announcement was made by the UN's under-secretary for safety and security, Gregory Starr, on Monday afternoon. It marks the final step before a full-scale evacuation, a move that has not been ordered at any point during Syria's steady descent into chaos over the past 20 months. UN staff has been near the line of fire for more than a year, so what makes now so important? It could be escalating tensions between Turkey and Syria. Or it could be those "contingency plans" and "chemical weapons" which are prompting the UN to make the move. Regardless, two unprecedented announcements like this, coming within hours of each other, don't look like a coincidence. [link to www.enduringamerica.com] |
godzilla85 User ID: 1077295 United States 12/03/2012 02:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning So I guess the Bush Administration was right when the intelligence community said that there was a convoy of chemical weapons that was shipped from Iraq to Syria. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28998454 it's one of the worse kept secrets about the war...everyone knew what really happened, but the problem was that the american people would never be sold on a third war on the premise of the last one. |
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insertfunnyusername User ID: 28750763 Greece 12/03/2012 02:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning So I guess the Bush Administration was right when the intelligence community said that there was a convoy of chemical weapons that was shipped from Iraq to Syria. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28998454 Regardless of the Iraqi chems story, Syria had and still has the biggest chemical arsenal in the whole ME, even before the Iraqi war, they've being socking up for decades, if they got the Iraqi ones too, then more for them. Last Edited by insertfunnyusername on 12/03/2012 02:19 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28998454 Poland 12/03/2012 02:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning So I guess the Bush Administration was right when the intelligence community said that there was a convoy of chemical weapons that was shipped from Iraq to Syria. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28998454 Regardless of the Iraqi chems story, Syria had and still has the biggest chemical arsenal in the whole ME, even before the Iraqi war, they've being socking up for decades, if they got the Iraqi ones too, then more for them. Where did they get the chemical weapons from? |
insertfunnyusername User ID: 28750763 Greece 12/03/2012 02:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning So I guess the Bush Administration was right when the intelligence community said that there was a convoy of chemical weapons that was shipped from Iraq to Syria. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28998454 Regardless of the Iraqi chems story, Syria had and still has the biggest chemical arsenal in the whole ME, even before the Iraqi war, they've being socking up for decades, if they got the Iraqi ones too, then more for them. Where did they get the chemical weapons from? They've been manufacturing them in Syria, but they've bought lots of delivery means from Russia, i guess the first chems were probably Russian imports too. Syria has never signed and ratified the chem. weapons convention. |
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Newshunter User ID: 22884594 United States 12/03/2012 02:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Turkey Scrambles F16s after Syria Bombs Border Town. Turkey worried Assad may Resort to Chemical Weapons - Hillary Issues Warning Everybody is cutting and running . . . something is up EU says delegation in Damascus, Syria, reduces activities to minimum level due to security conditions - @Reuters [link to www.breakingnews.com] |