Hollande: France has ‘information’ syrian regime still using chemical weapons

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HOLLANDE: FRANCE HAS ‘INFORMATION’ SYRIAN REGIME STILL USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS

APRIL 20, 2014 RT


By RT

France has information but no solid proof that the Syrian government is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.

“We have a few elements of information but I do not have the proof,” the French president said in a radio interview after he was asked about reports coming out of Syria that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is still using chemical weapons, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

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Hollande: France Has ?Information? Syrian Regime Still Using Chemical Weapons | Eurasia Review
 
Could this be true?

HOLLANDE: FRANCE HAS ‘INFORMATION’ SYRIAN REGIME STILL USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS

APRIL 20, 2014 RT


By RT

France has information but no solid proof that the Syrian government is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.

“We have a few elements of information but I do not have the proof,” the French president said in a radio interview after he was asked about reports coming out of Syria that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is still using chemical weapons, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

Continue reading at:

Hollande: France Has ?Information? Syrian Regime Still Using Chemical Weapons | Eurasia Review

sad, so sad that as he is harming and killing his own people and destroying his country he is also standing for reelection.
 
Could this be true?

HOLLANDE: FRANCE HAS ‘INFORMATION’ SYRIAN REGIME STILL USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS

APRIL 20, 2014 RT


By RT

France has information but no solid proof that the Syrian government is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.

“We have a few elements of information but I do not have the proof,” the French president said in a radio interview after he was asked about reports coming out of Syria that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is still using chemical weapons, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

Continue reading at:

Hollande: France Has ?Information? Syrian Regime Still Using Chemical Weapons | Eurasia Review

sad, so sad that as he is harming and killing his own people and destroying his country he is also standing for reelection.

Here's the latest I read today, Aris. I hope Hollande is wrong.

Chemical weapons removal from Syria nearly complete - latimes.com
 
Could this be true?

HOLLANDE: FRANCE HAS ‘INFORMATION’ SYRIAN REGIME STILL USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS

APRIL 20, 2014 RT


By RT

France has information but no solid proof that the Syrian government is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.

“We have a few elements of information but I do not have the proof,” the French president said in a radio interview after he was asked about reports coming out of Syria that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is still using chemical weapons, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

Continue reading at:

Hollande: France Has ?Information? Syrian Regime Still Using Chemical Weapons | Eurasia Review

sad, so sad that as he is harming and killing his own people and destroying his country he is also standing for reelection.

Here's the latest I read today, Aris. I hope Hollande is wrong.

Chemical weapons removal from Syria nearly complete - latimes.com

Stoke piles of known chemicals. Not removing the knowledge of how to make or where to get more.
Take the chemicals and it lets him use other brutal or wide dispersal that kill random civilians, with blessings. It is bit like using dynamite for fishing.
Lebanon's bekaa valley has been hit from syria. Weapons and/or chemical weapons have been hidden in Lebanon by hezbullah. Cars are shot at from building taken over by syrian or hezbullah soldiers to fire at people trying to get in or out of syria. During the civil war in Lebanon various factions did the same thing from buildings that were little more than concrete skeleton. Wall, windows, even stair wells long since blow out. High ground usually has the advantage.
Yes, even the Lebanese are refugees in their own country.
 
Syria balking on final 8%...
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Destruction of Syria's Chemical Weapons Almost Complete
May 22, 2014: WASHINGTON — Syria has destroyed the vast majority of its chemical weapons arsenal as mandated by an international agreement.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says Syria has removed from its territory or destroyed in-country more than 92 percent of its declared stockpile of chemical weapons. Greg Thielmann, an expert on weapons of mass destruction with the Arms Control Association, says Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile was substantial.

Mustard gas, sarin & more

“The total stockpile is something like 1,300 metric tons which would make it one of the largest existing operational chemical weapons stockpiles in the world. North Korea would be the only other competitor for that,” said Thielmann. “That having been said, one should also remember that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had such huge chemical weapons stockpiles that, even after many years of working on the destruction, [they] still have a lot of chemical weapons to destroy. But none of those stockpiles are operational in any way.” Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal includes mustard gas, the more modern sarin and even VX, the most toxic of all chemical agents. Last September, Syria agreed to dispose of its chemical weapons, under pressure from Russia and the threat of military action by the United States. Syria agreed to destroy all its chemical weapons by June 30.

Destruction 'very smooth'

Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, said, “The first part of this destruction process went very smoothly. That is, the chemicals were consolidated in about a dozen sites and secured. Remember, there is a civil war going on here. “So there is always a concern that something could happen to these chemical weapons. The actual destruction began around October - the beginning of October 2013 - when you started to destroy some of the precursor chemicals in site.” Precursor chemicals can be mixed together to create a toxic compound suitable for use as a weapon.

Most of the agents to be destroyed are placed in large containers, moved to a port in Syria and loaded unto cargo ships, Thielmann said. “It’s an American ship that is involved in destroying them. There are ships of other countries, though, that are transporting the bulk agent from the Syrian port to an American ship ... anchored off the coast of Italy, and the transfer would occur there.” Thielmann added. “There has been quite an elaborate process of not only having other countries involved in taking the agent away from Syria, but also countries have provided warships as escorts, to make sure that nothing happens to the chemicals on their way to the U.S. ship.”

Syria hesitant about last 8%
 

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