Another major milestone reached, and a key deadline met today, after inspectors confirmed today that Syria has destroyed the last remnants of its chemical weapons manufacturing capability. The facilities have been sealed, pending the removal of some 1,000 tons of chemical agents and several hundred tons of weaponry.
The UN Security Council set an artificially early deadline for Syria to reach this goal, much earlier than that dictated by Syria’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), but despite concerns about reaching the last couple of sites, everything was completed before the end of the month.
The process of getting the chemicals out of the country is going to be a long one, with big questions about where they’ll actually be sent. Norway has turned down calls to take them, as has Lebanon.
There’s also some question about what will happen to the physical buildings that were used as factories. The initial assumption was that they would be destroyed, but with much of the nation’s industrial base destroyed in the ongoing civil war, Syria is pushing to keep the factories standing, in hopes of converting them to something else.
As I predicted, the Syrian government astounded the world with the alacrity and rapidity of its chemical weapons disarmament, depriving the Zionist and US warmongers of a pretext for attacking. Not a peep from the usual suspects, who must truly be nearing a state of apoplexy over their inability to foment an excuse. Not to worry, however, as they will regroup and launch yet another assault of some kind, although it is becoming apparent that they are being forced to rely on attrition to wear down the Syrians.
As I predicted, the Syrian government astounded the world with the alacrity and rapidity of its chemical weapons disarmament, depriving the Zionist and US warmongers of a pretext for attacking. Not a peep from the usual suspects on all this, who must truly be nearing a state of apoplexy over their inability to foment an excuse. Not to worry, however, as they will regroup and launch yet another assault of some kind, although it is becoming apparent that they are being forced to rely on attrition to wear down the Syrians.