Defector: Assad Will Use Chemical Weapons
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:03
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A former top general inSyria’s chemical weaponsprogram says he doesn’t doubt for a moment thatPresident Bashar al-Assadwill deploy hischemical weaponsarsenal as he tries to hold onto power and crush the uprising that started almost two years ago.
“The regime started to fall and deteriorate. It’s coming to its end,” said retiredMajor General Adnan Sillouin an interview in a hotel near Antakya, onTurkey’s southern borderwithSyria. “It’s highly possible that he’ll start using [chemical weapons] to kill his own people because this regime is a killer.”
Sillou told ABC News that until September 2008, he was chief of staff on the defensive side of thechemical weapons program. He said he was in charge of training soldiers against attacks and contact with the weapons, as well as procuring safety equipment to guard against them.
He listed mustard gas along with the sarin, VX and tabun nerve agents as the main elements in Syria’s chemical arsenal, whose existence Syria doesn’t even acknowledge. Foreign intelligence officials and analysts have focused on the first three as the main threats, and last week U.S. officials said there was evidence sarin had not only been moved, but its binary components, usually stored separately, had been combined and placed into bombs for use.
Sillou accuses Assad’s forces of already spraying pesticides and dropping white phosphorous, claims also made by opposition activists.
“They’re idiots, crazy. Simply they are killers,” he said.
2012-12-11 03:42:42
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