Two hours for Syrian chemical weapons to reach Lebanon. Four armies prepared
Pay attention to this one folks…this is the same bullshit that Phony Tony Blair was pushing a few years ago for the Second Gulf War…that Saddam’s WMD could hit Europe in 30 minutes or whatever. They used these types of lies to launch that unnecessary war! It is NOT the Syrians who have been attacking NATO, Israel, or the GCC oil states; it is they and their paid mercenaries who are attacking Syria. Yet they have the bass balls to claim that they have to launch a all-out military attack on Syria to save themselves!!! Things may be coming to a head soon! Stirling
DEBKAfile
July 22, 2012
The IDF, the Turkish and Jordanian armies and US Middle East forces have switched to preparedness mode in the last few hours in case the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal starts moving west toward Lebanon, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. Acting in unison, those armies are on the ready for instantaneous action because it would take no more than two hours to cover the distance from Syria to the Hizballah-controlled Bakaa Valley of east Lebanon. Their arrival there, unless thwarted, would mean a war on Hizballah.
Therefore Israeli and US military chiefs prefer to stop the arsenal in its tracks before it moves across the border. This would call for surgically precise, rapid action against a target going to extreme lengths to stay concealed.
In the view of a senior US military source quoted by DEBKAfile, the risk is solid but it comes from a different direction. He stressed that “President Assad has not decided to hand over his chemical weapons to Hizballah, nor has Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah decided to accept them.”
The chemical stockpile is kept at the al-Safira base northwest of Damascus in the care of the president’s personal guard unit which takes orders from Bashar Assad and no one else. If the heads of that guard saw the regime suddenly collapse – as it was expected to do last Wednesday when assassins murdered the men closest to the president – the American official says, “It is impossible to predict how they will act or what use they will make of the weapons systems under their guard.”
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