Defector: Assad using chemical warfare in Homs attacks

[tabatha]

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical warfare in order to ease its entrance into Homs, said Awad Al-Razak, an officer who defected from the Syrian armed forces.

Al-Razak, who served in the chemical warfare department of the Syrian military, told the Al-Arabiya network that the government used nerve gas under the supervision of Russian and Iranian scientists, and intends to do so again in other parts of the country.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=257724

[tabatha]

1. Video: CNN Arwa damon Reports from inside Syria

[Fool Count]

2. What a stinking fucking liar. The lying salafist terrorists have no shame left.

[Ecumenist]

3. Just like Hafez...His pappy.

[TheWraith]

4. I doubt that.

Even if Al-Razak did say that, and it's not just an invention of the fairly well tabloidized Jerusalem Post, it's very easy for rumors to spread and get exaggerated in this kind of situation. The reality is that real, military-deployed nerve gas is so deadly that it would be hard to conceal it's use.

[David__77]

5. As if they need to use that. And as if it wouldn't be obvious to the world...

This is a lie, of course. And no intelligence agency would take this sort of rumor seriously.

Further, the Syrian military would hardly have a need to resort to such a measure to enter Homs, where they already are, by the way.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the Syrian military using all weapons at its disposal, but things have hardly escalated to that point. If there is foreign intervention, I think the Syrian rulers have more than a few tricks up their sleeves...