The Biggest Hoax – “Syria Clean of Chemical Weapons”

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The international chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday that Syria had met a key deadline for “the functional destruction” of all the chemical weapons production and mixing facilities declared to inspectors, “rendering them inoperable” under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States.

Israeli intelligence will keep monitoring Syria as a country with chemical weapons capabilty.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague said in a statement that a joint team of its inspectors and United Nations officials had visited 21 of the 23 chemical sites Syria declared to them. While the remaining two sites were too hazardous to visit because of the country’s continuing civil war, the chemical-making equipment there had already been moved to other sites which the inspectors could visit.

iHLS – Israel Homeland Security

Israeli experts did not know whether to laugh or cry when they read the statement. “How naive can one be” one of the experts said. He added that there is no doubt that Syria managed to keep a “meaningful” amount of chemical weapons or “ingredients” to make them and some of the production facilities. “The civil war in Syria is a perfect cover up tool for the Assad regime”, the experts said.

Five countries — Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States — had contributed some $5.5 million to help finance the destruction program, the report said.