As Assad Regime Disintegrates, What Will Happen to Its Huge Chemical Weapons Stockpile?

[tabatha]

Posted: 11/23/11 02:47 PM ET

As Syria teeters ever closer to civil war, one little-discussed danger concerns the fate of its stockpile of deadly chemical weapons, possibly the largest in the world.

Reports suggest that Syria has amassed hundreds of tons of chemical weapons including nerve agents Sarin, Tabun, VX and mustard agents. It may also possibly have developed biological weapons such as anthrax and cholera. Intelligence sources believe many of these agents are weaponized and ready for use, in artillery shells, aerial bombs, cluster munitions and SCUD missile warheads.

There are clearly two nightmare scenarios arising out of the growing disarray that threatens to rip Syria apart: the first is that terrorists gain control of some of these weapons. The second is of a full-scale civil war in which one or another party actually deploys them against its enemies causing thousands of civilian casualties.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/syria-civil-war_b_1107502.html

[librechik]

1. it seems to me I've heard that song before...

[tabatha]

2. neutral source

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