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Again.......  Obama Regime Dithers and Israel, again, strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms | Reuters
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Securing Syria's chemical arms would carry huge risks
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) May 3, 2013


A military mission to secure Syria's chemical arsenal would require a large ground force and pose huge risks, with the outcome hinging on the quality of Western intelligence, experts say.

With the Syrian regime suspected of using chemical agents against rebels, US and Western military commanders are planning for a possible worst-case scenario in which an international force would move in to neutralize the lethal weapons.

Any attempt to seize control of chemical agents in Syria would depend on the intelligence gathered by foreign spy services, which have struggled at times to track the Damascus regime's stockpiles.

"The first thing is you have to know where they are. Where are the weapons stored and where are the production sites and production-related sites?" said David Kay, the former UN weapons inspector who led the Iraq Study Group.

"It seems obvious but it's not easy," Kay, now a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, told AFP.

Syria is believed to have hundreds of tons of chemical agents such as sarin and VX as well as mustard gas, but the precise details of its arsenal remain unknown.

To take control of the weapons, the United States or its allies would have to send in boots on the ground, including teams of technical experts, special forces units and a large contingent -- likely tens of thousands -- of conventional troops to seize and guard chemical sites, analysts said.

"Even under the best of circumstances, it's a highly manpower intensive effort because you have to -- 24/7 -- surround the sites, and ensure that others are not entering," Kay said.

The intervention force would have to launch bombing raids to take out air defenses as a preliminary step and would also likely need to target some depots that could not be seized by a ground force.

"There are probably some facilities that will be beyond our reach that we will have to use air strikes to deal with," said Michael Eisenstadt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute.

At sites seized by ground forces, troops would need to stand guard while weapons experts -- clad in protective clothing and using special medical equipment -- document and neutralize the chemical agents and munitions.

The weapons experts would likely have to destroy the nerve agents or lethal gas on site, as transporting them would be too risky, according to Kay.

As special incinerators would not be available, the lethal agents likely would be placed in a lime pit and broken down with other chemicals, reducing toxicity to a level equivalent to industrial waste.

The painstaking process would take "weeks or months even," said Eisenstadt.

The intervention force would also need to destroy missiles, aerial bombs and artillery shells used to deliver chemical agents, which would likely require a wave of air strikes.

"You don't destroy the chemical weapons themselves but all the ways in which they can be delivered to the population," said Elizabeth O'Bagy of the Institute for the Study of War.

Part of the arsenal could be "entombed" by bombing designed to collapse and seal bunkers with rubble, Eisenstadt said.

"We've developed a series of munitions that could be used for these kind of missions," he said.

The US military has a bomb, the BLU-119/B, specifically designed to incinerate chemical agents, though the Pentagon has never disclosed how it has fared in tests.

Air raids also could be used to prevent an adversary from accessing a chemical arms site, but any attempt to bomb from the air would be fraught with danger.

Flawed intelligence or a single mistake in an air strike could cause a disastrous release of chemical agents that would threaten the very civilians that the United States and its allies hope to protect.

Trying to secure the chemical stockpiles would be an unprecedented undertaking, so filled with peril and uncertainty that some have called it an impossible mission.

Even if an operation went mostly as planned, parts of the arsenal would likely fall into the wrong hands, analysts said.

It would be "very tough," said Kay. "There are no good options."

Israel behind Syria strikes, hit Iran missiles: source
by Staff Writers
Jerusalem (AFP) May 05, 2013


Syria under regime and Israeli attack: rebels
Beirut (AFP) May 05, 2013 - Syria's rebel Free Syrian Army reacted cautiously on Sunday to reported Israeli air strikes near Damascus, saying their country was already under attack daily by regime war planes.
"Of course the Free Syrian Army and any Syrian is bothered that their country is being bombed, but Syria is being bombed every day by (President) Bashar al-Assad, and by Israel," FSA media and political coordinator Louay Muqdad told AFP.

He spoke after Syrian state media reported that Israeli rockets struck a military facility outside the capital Damascus overnight, the second reported attack by the Jewish state inside Syria this week.

"We wonder why there are so many missiles and military installations around Damascus when they should be close to the ceasefire line with Israel on the Golan Heights," he added.

"For us, the operations that we carry out every day are not related to Israeli attacks or anything else, and we will continue to fight until the fall of Assad," he said.

Israel has reportedly carried out at least three air strikes on Syrian sites, apparently targeting weapons destined for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is allied with the Syrian regime.

Israel carried out a pre-dawn air strike near Damascus on Sunday, targeting Iranian missiles destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah in the second such raid on Syrian soil in three days, a senior Israeli source said.

"The target was Iranian missiles which were destined for Hezbollah," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The attack targeted a facility just northwest of the Syrian capital, very close to the site of a similar attack late January which was implicitly confirmed by Israel, the source said.

He also confirmed Israel was behind an earlier strike on a target very close to Damascus airport which took place early on Friday, which also struck Iranian arms destined for the Lebanese Shiite movement.

"Any time Israel learns about the transfer of weapons from Syria to Lebanon, it will attack," he warned.

According to Syria's official SANA news agency, Sunday morning's attack targeted the Jamraya military research centre near Damascus, in the Eastern Ghouta region.

Following the strike, the Israeli air force went on high alert, although the Jewish state was not anticipating a significant response from Damascus, the source said.

"The air force is now on high alert, the highest in recent years," he said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to leave later on Sunday for a five-day visit to China, and the fact that he had not cancelled the trip suggested Israel was not expecting a major response from Syria, he added.

The official Syrian news agency SANA accused Israel of being behind the attack as a show of support for the rebel forces fighting a two-year insurgency against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

"This new Israeli aggression is a clear attempt to alleviate the pressure on the armed terrorist groups after our army beat them back in several regions and after the army's victories on the road to recovering security and stability in Syria," said SANA.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog said residents reported seeing aircraft when powerful blasts rocked the area, indicating the strike had caused casualties.

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