Timey
Jedi Master
Tom Coghlan
"Western powers, including Britain, are drawing up contingency plans to secure Syria's chemical weapons sites by military means if necessary, The Times has learnt.
Britain, the U.S, France, Jordan, Turkey and Israel, are co-operating on the issue. Israeli and British sources confirmed the deep concerns about the potential for Syria's Government to lose control of its stocks of chemical weapons - the largest in the Middle East. Syria is not signed up to the Chemical Weapons Convention and Western powers believe that it retains significant stocks of mustard gas and nerve agents.
Brigadier General Michael Herzog, a Jerusalem-based fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said there was "discussion ongoing" between governments over military planning.
British sources said that the UK was involved in talks with the US on the chemical weapons issue but that there were no plans for British troops to participate in military operations. A more likely scenario would be that Jordanian special forces would operate with Western military support. One British source said that chemical sites were being kept under "close observation" by teams from a number of countries. To date, the Syrian Government had been "protecting them responsibly".
Seem like the PTB are getting ready to push it up a notch. I can't believe that they are using the "chemical weapons" thing again though.
"Western powers, including Britain, are drawing up contingency plans to secure Syria's chemical weapons sites by military means if necessary, The Times has learnt.
Britain, the U.S, France, Jordan, Turkey and Israel, are co-operating on the issue. Israeli and British sources confirmed the deep concerns about the potential for Syria's Government to lose control of its stocks of chemical weapons - the largest in the Middle East. Syria is not signed up to the Chemical Weapons Convention and Western powers believe that it retains significant stocks of mustard gas and nerve agents.
Brigadier General Michael Herzog, a Jerusalem-based fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said there was "discussion ongoing" between governments over military planning.
British sources said that the UK was involved in talks with the US on the chemical weapons issue but that there were no plans for British troops to participate in military operations. A more likely scenario would be that Jordanian special forces would operate with Western military support. One British source said that chemical sites were being kept under "close observation" by teams from a number of countries. To date, the Syrian Government had been "protecting them responsibly".
Seem like the PTB are getting ready to push it up a notch. I can't believe that they are using the "chemical weapons" thing again though.
