Hints of Syrian Chemical Push Set Off Global Effort to Stop It
Found on New York Times on Wednesday, 09 January 2013
In the last days of November, Israel’s top military commanders called the Pentagon to discuss troubling intelligence that was showing up on satellite imagery: Syrian troops appeared to be mixing chemicals at two storage sites, probably the deadly nerve gas sarin, and filling dozens of 500-pounds bombs that could be loaded on airplanes.
While chemical weapons are technically considered a “weapon of mass destruction” — along with biological and nuclear weapons — in fact they are hard to use and hard to deliver.
Sounds familiar? Some years ago, Colin Powell came up the pretty much the same story to justify attacking Iraq. Although something needs to be done to stop Assad, people should be a little careful when receiving intelligence information from an enemy of the observed target.