“The world’s chemical weapons watchdog will send a fact-finding mission to Syria to examine claims by the United States and other Western powers that the Syrian government may have used deadly chlorine gas against its own people. Tuesday’s announcement by the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) followed a week of intensive diplomatic efforts by Washington to rally international support for such a mission, which is likely to renew international scrutiny of Syria’s chemical weapons at a time when Damascus was receiving credit for destroying its stockpiles of the lethal toxins.………….”
Here we go again. It has been happening regularly, ever since the tide of the Syrian war seemed to turn against the Wahhabi side. I believe that nobody, not even an Arab political leader, is that stupid. Imagine, every month or so the “activists” or the “opposition” claim that Bashar Al-Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons: Sarin or Chlorine or whatever. It is like clockwork. They always accompany the claim with photos and videos of people choking or dead and canisters clearly marked (in English): Sarin or Chlorine. They do not, however, paste a return address for these canisters at the presidential palace in Damascus.
Western media and officials, following the usual Saudi and Gulf media, automatically repeat the charges. I suspect it is at least partly a political game. Mr. Assad came close to being bombed by NATO forces last year, he came close to being Ghaddafi-ed by Western forces under the pretext of using WMD. Would he do it again so soon, that is assuming that he is the one who did it the previous times?
Like I said, there is no underestimating (or is it overestimating in this case) the stupidity of an Arab leader: just look at how many hopeless wars Saddam Hussein started or provoked, and he lost all of them.
Some older posts on this:
Salafi Chemical Intelligence, Bandar Chemical Intelligence: Closing in on Bashar……Slick New Washington Battle Cry: Remember the Alamo? No, Remember Syria in Peoria……
Bashar Al Assad to the West on WMD: Show Me Yours, I’ll Show You Mine, L’affaire Dreyfus………
The Obama Wars: Set to Out-Bush, Out-Clinton, and Out-LBJ them all………
Grain of Salt? Saudi Arabia Claims Use of Chemical Weapons in Damascus……..
Bloomberg Columnist Knows not only that Assad Used WMD, but Which Airports his Bombers Used……..
