Why would Syria produce chemical weapons in Damascus, its capital and second-most populous city?
Do we know of other instances where world powers produced chemical weapons in their own heavily populated areas?
Also how did we identify chemical weapons plants in like the past 48 hours, but couldn't do it for the past year since the last strike?
what if they were legit chemical manufacturing plants but owned an operated by the cniggers?
and mossad of course
Because it limits the risk of foreign attacks. Harder for US politically to attack Damascus than some sand dune. They risk civilian casualties, the optics of it, etc.. There's also the idea of hiding in plain sight, kind of like Bin Laden, and it keeps the facility within close proximity of the best possible resources / employees.
Dunno but doubt many world powers are producing chemical weapons, most would have hidden stockpiles.
They would have identified the plants beforehand, but it would be politically crazy to strike them until directly after an attack like this, since the Syrians deny their existence anyways.
They also don't have to worry about rebels / other forces overtaking the facility if it's in the capital.
OK, but if something goes wrong, you've now released mustard gas into your own city and everyone the world over knows it.
Seems like it would make more sense to move it outside the city.
Why Obama was able to remove 100% of Syrian chemical weapons without firing a single bullet but Trump can't?
>“We were able to find a solution that didn’t necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. Our aim in contemplating the use of force following the use of chemical weapons in August of 2013 was not to intervene in the civil war, not to become involved in the combat between Assad and the opposition, but to deal with the threat of chemical weapons by virtue of the diplomacy that we did with Russia and with the Security Council. We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”
Susan E. Rice, then-national security adviser, in an interview with NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Jan. 16, 2017
Stop asking questions and turn your attention back to the latest reality tv show while you choke down the latest microwave meal for one
except the rebels were in control of the area where the weapons were found
really want to know what happened, heres what i think, it wasnt the jooos, it wasnt mossad or cia or any other glow in the darks ... it was an accident
the rebels had obtained the weapons, either at outset of war during defections or from lybia's stockpiles, they had been saving and storing them for a long time, as the circle drew in around them in damascus it was only a matter of time before one of the barrels bombs hit the weapon cache .... and the chemicals were released!!!
i dont think it was intentional, assad has no motive, and it seems to me pretty unlikely that mossad/cia whoever has assets of that nature in damascus ... if it had happened in a smaller city or town, someplace more obscure, i would be more suspicious of glow-in-the-dark niggers .... but in damscus, im sure the mossad has spies there, but not direct action operatives
and it seems unlikely that you could convince, even crazy jihadis, to gas thier own kids (though it is still more likely then Assad did it!!) .... there is no way i could see assad doing this, he has absolutely zero motive, and plenty of good reason NOT to do it.
simplest explanation: unplanned event in a warzone
The pros I outlined outweigh those cons, but they probably take extreme precaution to ensure nothing goes wrong, and assume nothing will. A military strike was likely the only thing that could go wrong. And if something does go wrong Syria is a state that fully controls the media and will just lie to its people / the world anyway.
This is the French intelligence rationale for an Assad motive.
>Given in particular ongoing military operations in Eastern Ghouta around 7 April, we assess witha high degree of confidence that the Syrian regime holds responsibility.
>Reliable intelligence indicates that Syrian military officials have coordinated what appears to be the use of chemical weapons containing chlorine on Douma, on April 7.
>The attack of 7 April 2018 took place as part of a wider military offensive carried out by the regime on the Eastern Ghouta region. Launched in February 2018, this offensive has now enabled Damascus to regain control of the entire enclave.
>As a reminder, the Russian military forces active in Syria enable the regime to enjoy unquestionable air superiority, giving it the total military freedom of action it needs for its indiscriminate offensives on urban areas.
>The tactic adopted by pro-regime forces involved separating the various groups (Ahrar al-Sham, Faylaq al-Rahman, and Jaysh al-Islam) in order to focus their efforts and obtain negotiated surrender agreements. The three main armed groups therefore began separate negotiations with the regime and Russia. The first two groups (Ahrar al-Sham and Faylaq al-Rahman) concluded agreements that resulted in the evacuation of nearly 15,000 fighters and their families.
>During this first phase, the Syrian regime’s political and military strategy consisted in alternating indiscriminate military offensives against local populations, which sometimes included the use of chlorine, and pauses in operations for negotiations.
>Negotiations with Jaysh al-Islam began in March but were not fully conclusive. On 4 April, part of the Jaysh al-Islam group (around one quarter of the group according to estimates) accepted the surrender agreement and fighters and their families were sent to Idlib (approximately 4,000 people, with families).
>However, between 4,500 and 5,500 Jaysh al-Islam fighters, mostly located in Douma, refused the terms of negotiation. As a result, from 6 April onwards, the Syrian regime, with support from Russian forces, resumed its intensive bombing of the area, ending a pause in ground and aerial operations that had been observed since negotiations began in mid-March. This was the context for the chemical strikes analyzed in this document.
>Given this context, the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons makes sense from both the military and strategic points of view:
>Tactically speaking, this type of ammunition is used to flush out enemy fighters sheltering in homes and engage in urban combat in conditions that are more favorable to the regime. It accelerates victory and has a multiplier effect that helps speed up the capitulation of the last bastion of armed groups.
>Strategically speaking, chemical weapons and particularly chlorine, documented in Eastern Ghouta since early 2018, are especially used to punish civilian populations present in zones held by fighters opposed to the Syrian regime and to create a climate of terror and panic that encourages them to surrender.
>As the war is not over for the regime, it uses these indiscriminate strikes to show that resistance is futile and pave the way for capturing these last pockets of armed resistance.
>Since 2012, the Syrian forces have repeatedly used the same pattern of military tactics: toxic chemicals are mainly used during wider urban offensives, as was the case in late 2016 during the recapture of Aleppo, where chlorine weapons were regularly used in conjunction with traditional weapons. The zones targeted, such as Eastern Ghouta, are all major military objectives for Damascus.
The CDC centers in the US are all in major cities. They have some really really scary stuff in them.
>Why would Syria produce chemical weapons in Damascus, its capital and second-most populous city?
because the country is destabilized it could make sense to guard just the city and produce the chemicals there
They're getting hit with projectiles from rebels and face terrorist threats all the time, so the overall safety standards are low
Elemental chlorine is produced all over the world. It's an industrial chemical and a useful reactant for making all sorts of compounds. This is why the "proliferation" argument for strikes against Assad is laughable.
1 year ago
>Hur-Dur, Evil Dictator Assad gasses his people! Social media told us so! USA bombs Syria without investigation last chemichal lab/store of chemicals. Mission accomplished, America F yeah!
Yesterday
>Hur-Dur, Evil Dictator Assad gasses his people! USA bombs Syria without investigation last chemichal lab/store of chemicals. Mission accomplished, America F yeah!
>Also how did we identify chemical weapons plants in like the past 48 hours, but couldn't do it for the past year since the last strike?
Because there is no chemical weapons stored in Syria. Otherwise you would be bombing civilians non stop 24/7 to stop "brutal dictator".
We did identify them in the last year and a half nigger. That’s how intelligence gathering works.
Why does the Assad regime do stuff? Because they are dumb. But probably they have strong military control of Homs and did not want someone to infiltrate their research site.
Yeah, wouldn't want anyone to infiltrate their chlorine... research...
Seriously how dumb are you? Did you complete high school?
>Why would Syria produce chemical weapons in Damascus
There is nowhere else.
>Do we know of other instances where world powers produced chemical weapons in their own heavily populated areas?
It varies.
>Also how did we identify chemical weapons plants in like the past 48 hours
They would have been there for years.
>we did identify them
Then why didn't we bomb their chemical weapons plants last year instead of some rando airfield?
I don't buy it
The airfield wasn't random, it was supposedly where the planes took off that had launched the attack.
This is the next natural progression in its escalation.