View Full Version : chemical weapons? syria?
Syl
5th September 2013, 16:27
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ten-chemical-weapons-attacks-washington-doesnt-want-you-to-talk-about/5348230
Ten examples of the usa using them...
ghostrider
6th September 2013, 03:31
it's okay if we drop chemicals on each other, in our water, in our air, in our toothpaste, but another country does it and that's crossing the red line ... grounds for war ...
Sidney
6th September 2013, 16:50
A very good reminder OP. You might ask the mods to change the title to something that might attract more attention. That article IMO needs to be seen.
BUMP!!!!!
Roisin
6th September 2013, 16:59
As for Syria's own supply of chemical warfare:
"The Soviet Union later supplied chemical agents, delivery systems and training. Syria is also “likely to have procured equipment and precursor chemicals from private companies in Western Europe.” According to the report, Syria doesn’t yet appear to have the capacity to produce the weapons entirely on its own, relying on outside help for precursors."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...mical-weapons/
I wonder what the names of those companies are in Western Europe that have been supplying Syria with that material?
Roisin
6th September 2013, 17:08
Well, here's one of em....
Revealed: UK Government let British company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-uk-government-let-british-company-export-nerve-gas-chemicals-to-syria-8793642.html
"The Government was accused of “breathtaking laxity” in its arms controls last night after it emerged that officials authorized the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will today be asked by MPs to explain why a British company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six months in 2012 while Syria’s civil war was raging and concern was rife that the regime could use chemical weapons on its own people. The disclosure of the licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which can both be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in last month’s atrocity in Damascus"
"The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills insisted that although the licences were granted to an unnamed UK chemical company in January 2012"...
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