Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks kill hundreds'

[August]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

I'd hope that a sufficiently hard strike will deter him from using any nerve agent he has left after it, for fear of further retaliation. Since he appears to be winning the ground war.


Air strikes and raiding parties to get the chemical weapons under control. In and out fast. I won't use the word "surgical" because that's something politicians say when they want you to think nobody gets hurt. I don't imagine this will happen straight away, if ever.

This is what I mean when i say there aren't any very good options here.

What has happened can't go unanswered, if only for the sake of where they might be used next.

No raiding party is going to be able to secure a chemical weapons plant or even a munitions stockpile let alone 50 of them. Then secure these places for what? You can't just blow them up in place without causing major contamination of the surrounding city and countryside so you're talking heavy equipment, containment and decontamination facilities and thousands of troops and technicians just to get the stuff ready to ship out of there. That can't be done with a raid.

So we're back to a showy but ultimately harmless smack to the face of the projected winner. I just don't see that being worth the thousands of civilian casualties this could produce.

[eddie]

They have one of the largest stockpile of these weapons in the ME. Trying to get to them all would take a major invasion like August says.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...g-mystery?lite

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by August

No raiding party is going to be able to secure a chemical weapons plant or even a munitions stockpile let alone 50 of them. Then secure these places for what? You can't just blow them up in place without causing major contamination of the surrounding city and countryside so you're talking heavy equipment, containment and decontamination facilities and thousands of troops and technicians just to get the stuff ready to ship out of there. That can't be done with a raid.

So we're back to a showy but ultimately harmless smack to the face of the projected winner. I just don't see that being worth the thousands of civilian casualties this could produce.

Just for the record, lets say you are right ...

Where are these chemical weapons going to wind up?

In the hands of the friends of Syria?

or in the hands of the rebel commanders?

Sooner or later (2018 is Israel's 70th anniversary of statehood)
they will be used against Israel, the common enemy of all non
Jewish settlers in the region.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
The former governor of Iran's Kish Province wrote online that in the event of a US attack on Syria the families of American officials would be kidnapped and tortured while the President's younger daughter would be taken and raped.

Guess where the next drone strike is going to be...c'mon just guess...


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[mapuc]

have tried to find the same story in some of the English newspaper without success

In Danish and Swedish newspaper there have been lots of story about crisis between USA and Russia.

In the latest article it says that Russia is going to support Syria military and economical, if Syria is attacked.

I have always said that Iran could joint Syria with more weapons and lots of soldier. Not officials of course.

Now that I have been reading these latest article in some of the Danish and Swedish newspaper I'm not so sure anymore.

I hope that USA wait until the UN-report is at hand before they do something.

Markus

[Mr Quatro]

Prelude to war? I hope not ...

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Lebanon-Syria/2013/09/06/id/524213
The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon due to security concerns as the Obama administration and Congress debate military strikes on neighboring Syria.

FBI, Homeland Security Say No Threats Yet Tied to 9/11 Anniversary
Friday, 06 Sep 2013 16:13 PM
The government is aware of no credible or specific information that points to any terror plot tied to the anniversary of . .

Congress will vote on what date to go or no go?

Other news that reminds me of the 60's pre Vietnam war:
US Military Contractors Celebrate Record High Profits and Stock …

[mapuc]

I could be wrong(I hope I am) as I see it, it looks more and more like a crisis that becomes more and more international-an International crisis

Markus

[Mittelwaechter]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I could be wrong(I hope I am) as I see it, it looks more and more like a crisis that becomes more and more international-an International crisis

Markus

If it ever was an internal Syrian affair, it became an international one with the support of foreign countries for one or the other party. Some did it openly, others disguised.

Today we see a proxy conflict of the US led and the Russian led supporters.
This may run hot - hotter than it is - and set the region or the world on fire.

Economic interests kill people. Money rules the world.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

...
Where are these chemical weapons going to wind up?
...

Which chemical weapons, again ?

I know there's so much hype in the western media, there HAVE to be chemical weapons, right ?
Soon Mr. Kerry will step up and show a glass tube full of 'evidence', just like Mr. Powell.

Maybe the West should just check its bills of weapons sold to Syria, i am sure they find something

[Catfish]

What did Assad exactly do, to pi.. off the West ?

Maybe denying some other oil-producing country to build a pipeline, through Syria ?

[Mittelwaechter]

Originally Posted by Catfish

What did Assad exactly do, to pi.. off the West ?

Maybe denying some other oil-producing country to build a pipeline, through Syria ?

He dared to try to defeat a revolt. CWs were deployed by one or the other party, but there is only one entity entitled to deploy CWs if it seems fit.

He is close with Iran.

And iirc the Saudis are interested to run a pipeline through Syria to Europe.