US officials were all set for Syria to miss the seven day “deadline” to deliver its lists official accounting of chemical weapons, but Syria took them by surprise, delivering the list a day early.
US officials familiar with the disclosure to the Office for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) say that the list is also surprisingly complete, which managed to lead officials to concede that it was an “encouraging” sign.
It is, of course, but that’s not the narrative the US has been pushing, and they’ve been so eager to dub Syria in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in the days since they signed it and so desperate to get international authorization for a war when that first inevitable hiccup comes, that an admission of progress is really surprising.
Beyond the US, Syrian President Bashar Assad affirmed his government’s willingness to let international experts access the sites, saying they’d be fine with doing so more or less immediately, but warning that some of the sites might not be easy to reach because of fighting with rebels.
That concern is very real, with Syria in the middle of an enormous civil war. Though officials see this as a process to be wrapped up by mid-2014, the reality is that it has been a multi-decade problem in other nations, and those nations didn’t have civil wars to complicate matters.
Iraqis did delivered what they promised, so as every other countries or government , yet in the end they been bombed by USA for no reason at all. Question is if, this time, USG is able, willing or can keep its promise and leave the Syrian nation alone, let them to deal with the peace and killings of Saudis barbarians, let them to release the world from these terrorists and terrorism once and for all, thus far USG or EU governments not only have done nothing to eliminate these barbarians, on the contrary they have and helping these barbarians bosses to create more, as Saudis have sent in convicted murders to Syria for Syrian war to continue.
The warmongers must be at their wits' end by now. The refusal of the Syrian government to give them a pretext for launching attacks has set them back on their heels and reduced them to scrambling for something – anything – that could be used as "evidence" of "non-compliance." The mere fact that they admit that the Syrian list is "complete" means that the Syrians disclosed far more than they knew about. Of course, this list could be very useful information for an attack, if the warmongers can actually get one going. Therefore, the Syrians will again leave them slack-jawed by the speed with which the chemical weapons are turned over for destruction. And once that is done, perhaps Vladimir Putin can again do the world a service by helping the Zionists to get rid of their WMDs – chemical, biological and nuclear. Netanyahoo, after all, needs to know that we're all concerned about his country and that it needs special help, too.
V, I would love to see that – a world leader not in the Zionist back pocket who will speak the truth about God's Chosen 800lb. racist gorilla in the region.
This isn´t a "civil war" with two more or less equal parts fighting each other. It is a, proxy war al right, a sovereign government supported by a majority of the free world battling foreign mercenaries and Wahhabists paid by those paragons of "democracy" in the Persian Gulf and the western NATO fascist regimes. A war in which the US desperately is trying to pretend the 90`s isn´t over and it´s "unipolar" imperial status remains. It will indeed be a troubled wake up process…
What's surprising is the US admitting candor on the part of the al-Assad regime. Seems the Syrians can be straight up and that baffles the never straight up US no end.
Since the Syrian government already had excellent reasons for keeping close tabs on its chemical weapons long before disarmament was considered, why is it surprising that that it could quickly generate an accurate report? Am I missing something here? Why isn’t it practically as simple as asking a clerk to go get the file and run off some copies?
What "civil" war? I would like some of those mouthpieces for the Salafi and Wahhabi barbarians to go to Syria, and find ONE Syrian that supports them. In the beginning, it was easy to kill soldiers and civilians, and blaim government for it all. But the non-violent protestors soon figured out that there are elements of foreign forces in the country, and it is then that almost all the support vanished. I say all, because in the villages where more Sunnis have converted to Salafism from their traditional Sufism, there was still support for the fighters, and Syrian Salafis joined them.
But this love affair with the "rebels" soon evaporated when rebels killed an entire Sunni village of Houla, just to create a pretext for foreign intervention. What a coincidence, the "rebels" at the time just came back from the "consultations" with Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, to study how Rachak incident was portrayed as crime committed by Miloshevic, even though it was the terrorists that killed their own people. Did not work. Then the chemical weapons — it is not working. What will it take to have our splendid little war!
I sure hope this disarmament does not mean it gives the US of Israel an easier time invading, bombing, occupying, etc…like with Iraq.