As Syria gets ready to exterminate it's own people...

[Roudy]

Over 40,000 Syrians massacred by Assad, the butcher in Damascus and his henchmen. Now he's getting ready to unleash chemical weapons on his own people and kill them like insects. But all the Arab / Muslim world can think of are those Islamo-terrorist Fraudestinians and the evil Joos, Joos, and more Joos. What a sick pathetic culture!

U.S. warns Syria regime against using chemical weapons - latimes.com

BEIRUT — The United States bluntly warned Syrian President Bashar Assad against using chemical weapons as his forces lose ground to rebel fighters, and the United Nations said it was pulling nonessential foreign staff from Syria because of deteriorating security.

Warnings from President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other officials Monday reflected U.S. concerns over new intelligence indicating that Syria might be preparing to unleash some of its chemical agent stockpiles.

"The world is watching," Obama said, addressing Assad in remarks at the National War College in Washington. "The use of chemical weapons is, and would be, totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable."

 

[The Infidel]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?





Or




Who is watching the watchers?

 

[Mr. H.]

Warnings and negotiations. For four years, and for four more.

 

[High_Gravity]

I have a feeling we haven't seen nothing yet.

 

[Roudy]

I have a feeling we haven't seen nothing yet.

You are right. Civil war will break out in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands will be massacred in Syria. These are the fruits of the Arab Spring.

 

[TNHarley]

Im kind of torn about this. I don't want the US meddling in other countries problems, at the same time, this should NOT happen!

 

[High_Gravity]

I have a feeling we haven't seen nothing yet.

You are right. Civil war will break out in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands will be massacred in Syria. These are the fruits of the Arab Spring.

I hate to say it but as long as theres no US Troops being killed, let them have at it. Let them focus on butchering each other instead of us Yankees for a change.

 

[High_Gravity]

Also I think Obama condemning Assad for breaking out the chemical weapons is a joke, basically we are telling Assad you can kill as many Syrians as you want, just don't use any WMD's. What a fucking joke.

 

[Politico]

He won't do anything. If he does Obama will send him a sternly worded letter and put a stop to it.

 

[Roudy]

Im kind of torn about this. I don't want the US meddling in other countries problems, at the same time, this should NOT happen!

Anytime Muslims are busy killing each other as opposed to us infidels is a _____________ thing.

 

[waltky]

Granny says drop the bomb on `em...

What Assets Could US Military Use Against Syrian Chemical Sites?
December 06, 2012 - Western security experts say the U.S. military has three principal methods for carrying out a potential operation to secure or destroy Syria's suspected chemical weapons sites.

One option is to airlift U.S. ground forces into Syria with the goal of seizing and securing the sites, which are thought to be concentrated in the cities of Damascus, Hama, Homs and Latakia.

Parachuting troops

GlobalSecurity.org director John Pike said the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division could move a brigade into Syria within 12 hours of being given the task. The division is based in the East Coast state of North Carolina. The U.S. military also has a small troop presence much closer to Syria. U.S. media have reported that 150 military specialists were sent to Jordan earlier this year to train Jordanian forces in dealing with a possible Syrian chemical weapons crisis. The U.S. specialists have been based at the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center northeast of Amman. Neither the United States nor Jordan has said whether those troops could be sent into Syria.

Navy strikes

A second option for the U.S. military is to destroy Syrian chemical stockpiles with cruise missiles fired from warships in the Mediterranean. Two U.S. navy battle groups capable of firing those missiles are on duty in the region. The USS Iwo Jima amphibious assault group is at sea as part of the U.S. 6th Fleet, whose area of responsibility includes the Mediterranean. Pike said that is where the group spends most of its time.

The USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier group is on duty specifically in the Mediterranean. Pike said the two battle groups likely have about 500 Tomahawk cruise missiles between them. The USS Eisenhower also has the ability to launch warplanes into Syria. Additional U.S. warplanes could be sent into Syria from a variety of air bases that United States shares with allies in Europe and the Gulf.

Regional air bases

 

[waltky]

Russia, China weasel out - support Assad carnage again...

Rising child deaths in Syria prompt calls for war crimes probe
Wed, Jan 16, 2013 - International calls for a war crimes probe into the 22-month Syrian conflict are growing after a watchdog reported that at least 26 children have been killed in the latest violence.

Reports of the child deaths came on Monday as the New York-based Human Rights Watch group accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime of expanding its use of banned cluster bombs. At least 57 governments have called on the UN Security Council to refer the Syria conflict to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a war crimes investigation. Switzerland sent a petition requesting the move to the 15-member council, the only body that can refer the case to the court. However, the council and its five permanent members are deeply divided over the conflict. The signatories included many European governments, as well as Libya and Tunisia, which both saw Arab Spring uprisings overthrow longstanding autocratic regimes.

The letter called on the council to refer the Syria conflict for an ICC investigation “without exceptions and irrespective of the alleged perpetrators.” As Syria is not an ICC member, only a council referral could start a war crimes investigation. The push came as eight children and five women were killed in an air strike on the town of Moadamiyat al-Sham, southwest of Damascus, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The children, all members of the same clan, were aged between six months and nine years old,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. Syrian state television blamed “terrorists” for the deaths. Four other children, including two siblings, were killed in a separate attack near the capital, the Observatory added. Another eight were killed in the northern province of Aleppo — five of them in a single air strike. Six more children died in other flashpoints in the country.

The Observatory says that more than 3,500 children have been killed since the Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011. The UN says more than 60,000 people have died in total. In a separate statement, Steve Goose, the director of Human Rights Watch’s arms division, said: “Syria is escalating and expanding its use of cluster munitions, despite international condemnation of its embrace of this banned weapon.” “It [Syria] is now resorting to a notoriously indiscriminate type of cluster munition that gravely threatens civilian populations,” he said. The rights group said other governments should sign up to the Swiss-led initiative. However, Russia and China, both veto-wielding permanent members of the council, have refused to sign it.

Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov on Monday said that the five permanent members of the council would meet to discuss the Syrian crisis toward the end of the month. Bogdanov also told Interfax news agency that the UN was looking at ways of sending a new observer mission to Syria. UN World Food Programme executive director Ertharin Cousin said Syrian refugees urgently needed more aid. Inside Syria, they were providing help to approximately 1.5 million people at a cost of US$25 million per month, she said. UN refugee agency UNHCR on Monday reported that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey had grown to more than 153,000.

Rising child deaths in Syria prompt calls for war crimes probe - Taipei Times

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Report: At Least 52 Killed in Syria University Blast
January 15, 2013 - A Syrian rights group says two explosions killed at least 52 people Tuesday at the University of Aleppo, in Syria's largest city.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told VOA there has been no claim of responsibility for the blasts and that the death toll is expected to rise.

Syrian state television described the explosions as a "terrorist attack," but did not give further details or specify the number of victims. The cause of the explosions was not clear but the government and opposition activists blamed each other.

Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub, has been wracked by violence since rebels launched an all-out assault on the city in July 2012. The university lies in government-controlled territory.

The Observatory said more than 100 people have been killed Tuesday across Syria as rebel fighters continue their push to overthrow President Basher al-Assad's government. The 21-month conflict that has killed at least 60,000 people.

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