US and Turkey meet to discuss Syrian chemical weapons
Source: The Guardian
US military and intelligence officials met their Turkish counterparts in Ankara on Thursday to discuss ways to counter the threat of Syrian chemical weapons, as the impact of the civil war continued to spread across Syria's borders.
The Ankara meeting came as David Cameron supported Barack Obama's threat of possible military intervention in Syria if the regime used chemical weapons. Reports from the US suggested the Pentagon has plans to dispatch special forces teams to secure or destroy chemical weapon stockpiles if there was a danger they might fall into the hands of extremist groups.
Bashar al-Assad's regime acknowledged its long-suspected possession of a stock of chemical weapons last month when a spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, said such weapons would not be used inside Syria but might be if the country was "exposed to external aggression".
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