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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Like Israel, Syria has not signed the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997, nor
is it a member of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
which verifies stockpiles of these weapons. Outside experts say that Syria’s
chemical weapons programme dates back to the 1970s and ranks among the most
advanced in the Middle East. However, Mr Assad is not believed to possess
any biological weapons.
The rationale for his arsenal is to counterbalance a nuclear-armed Israel on
Syria’s western flank and a NATO-allied Turkey on the northern frontier.
Experts believe Mr Assad is highly unlikely to use these munitions against
his domestic opponents. Whether Syria’s armed forces are fully trained in
their use is also questionable.
Dina Esfandiary, a non-proliferation specialist at the International Institute
for Strategic Studies, said that little was known about the full extent of
Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles. “It’s worrying because we don’t
know,” she said. “We don’t know exactly what Syria’s capability
is. We don’t know how big their stockpiles are – or where they are. It would
be difficult for everybody to secure them, particularly if factions within
the country are fighting eachother.”
Ms Esfandiary added: “The risk of the agents falling into the hands of
non-state actors is quite worrying.”
America has identified “at least a dozen or so sites that have some very
serious chemical weapon caches,” said Mike Rogers, a Republican
Congressman who chairs the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.
He told CNN that the attendant risk “keeps me up at night”.
The al-Safir military complex, near the city of Aleppo, is understood to be
one site where chemical weapons are stored. Satellite imagery of the
location “offers substantive evidence that Syria maintains and
continues to upgrade a chemical weapons programme”, according to Jane’s
Intelligence Review.
Al-Safir is protected by SA-2 surface-to-air missiles and contains 16 storage
bunkers, according to Jane’s, which adds that Syria “continues to
enhance its ability to deliver both conventional and chemical warheads”.
The country is believed to possess 700 Scud missiles, one of the biggest
such arsenals in the Middle East.
The evidence suggests that Syria has adapted these weapons to deliver chemical
warheads. In 2007, an explosion at another plant killed 15 scientists and
engineers as they tried to load a chemical warhead on to a Scud.
North Korea is known to have helped Syria’s missile programme and may have
aided the development of chemical weapons. Mr Assad could also have received
help from Iran, his closest ally.
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