Syria Breaks Out The Chemical Weapons

Syria Breaks Out The Chemical Weapons

July 13, 2012

Syria has begun moving its chemical weapons stockpile out of storage, U.S. warns

Syria has undeclared arsenals of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas, cyanide
U.S. officials fear Assad may want to use weapons against rebels or civilians
Others believe he is trying to safeguard stockpile from his opponents

By Graham Smith
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ABC
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Syria has started to move part of its chemical weapons arsenal out of storage facilities, according to U.S. officials.

The country’s undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide have long worried the U.S. officials and its allies in the region, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Western nations have looked for signs amid the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad’s government of any change in the location of those weapons, believed to be the world’s largest stockpile.
Syrian policemen investigate a car bomb in Damascus today. The country has started to move part of its chemical weapons arsenal out of storage facilities, U.S. officials have warned

Syrian policemen investigate a car bomb in Damascus today. The country has started to move part of its chemical weapons arsenal out of storage facilities, U.S. officials have warned

American officials are divided on the reason for moving the arsenal.

Some fear Assad may want to use the weapons against rebels or civilians, while others said perhaps he is trying to safeguard them from his opponents.

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U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, travelling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Phnom Penh, said: ‘We repeatedly made it clear that the Syrian government has a responsibility to safeguard its stockpiles of chemical weapons.’

She added that ‘the international community will hold accountable any Syrian officials who fail to meet that obligation’.

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