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In Syria, U.S. intelligence struggles to understand opposition forces

Full story: The Washington Post

Sixteen months into the uprising in Syria , the United States is struggling to develop a clear understanding of opposition forces inside the country, according to U.S. officials who said that intelligence gaps have impeded efforts to support the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. spy agencies have expanded their efforts to gather ... (more)

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“It's Time to Defeat Terrorism ”

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Will Obama ever understand what is going on in the Middle East before it falls to new WMD war against Israel? Obama proved that regardless of the danger to millions of innocent people around Syria including Israel he will not stand up to the Iranian regime and his partner Putin. The three rogue partners in crime are the Syrian murderous dictator Assad together with the Iranian madman Ahmadinajad who rush for the nukes and with the Russian KGB dictator Putin that confirmed that they will use WMDs to keep Assad in power. While pacifist and incompetent Obama is busy playing golf and fund raising while he keeps US military far away from Syria, Israel will have to attack and destroy the WMDs and prevent the use of the WMDs against Israel. Obama proved that he will allow the axis of Iranian evil regime and the Russian regime control the Middle East as US troops will be pulled out and lose any influence and all allies. The Iranian regime and Mozlem Brother Sympathizer Obama proved that he aimed at isolating Israel and allow the Iranian regime becoming the new nuke superpower that will control the oil fields of the Middle East with support of the Russian regime with threats of using WMDs by the suicide terrorist organizations against Israel.
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Jeff Brightone wrote:
Will Obama ever understand what is going on in the Middle East before it falls to new WMD war against Israel? Obama proved that regardless of the danger to millions of innocent people around Syria including Israel he will not stand up to the Iranian regime and his partner Putin. The three rogue partners in crime are the Syrian murderous dictator Assad together with the Iranian madman Ahmadinajad who rush for the nukes and with the Russian KGB dictator Putin that confirmed that they will use WMDs to keep Assad in power. While pacifist and incompetent Obama is busy playing golf and fund raising while he keeps US military far away from Syria, Israel will have to attack and destroy the WMDs and prevent the use of the WMDs against Israel. Obama proved that he will allow the axis of Iranian evil regime and the Russian regime control the Middle East as US troops will be pulled out and lose any influence and all allies. The Iranian regime and Mozlem Brother Sympathizer Obama proved that he aimed at isolating Israel and allow the Iranian regime becoming the new nuke superpower that will control the oil fields of the Middle East with support of the Russian regime with threats of using WMDs by the suicide terrorist organizations against Israel.
Terrorist supporting jewish bot propagandist you may as well give your spamming a rest as no decent sane person reads your obvious jewish lies and scripted propaganda from israel.Israel is a terrorist colony and the american government is a terrorist controlled by israel.
Ayreshire

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taxpayer wrote:
isnt it strange irag hides chemical weapons in syria 6 years later syria admits to chemical weapons but the democrats say G.W.B. STARTS ILLEGAL WAR obama uses G.W.B. timeline to leave irag and now al- qaidai blowing up stuff in Irag the whole time democrats lie about our war in irag vote ROMNEY 2012
LIAR!! LIAR! LIAR! Stop the ignorant nonsense!! Iraq's Saddam Hussein created a far greater humanitarian nightmare than Libya. "The Butcher of Baghdad" slaughtered, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis -- far more people than were killed in Bosnia and Kosovo, where President Clinton ordered military force for humanitarian reasons. Yet, when weapons hunters found no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, the dwindling number of pro-war Democrats turned against the war never mind the sickening sight of thousands of Iraqis found in shallow graves.
That Saddam possessed stockpiles of WMD, having used chemical weapons on the Iranians and his own people, was not in dispute. All 16 U.S. intelligences agencies thought so "with the highest probability." France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, China, Israel and even Saddam's own generals assumed Iraq possessed WMD. Even U.N. weapons inspector and Iraq War critic Hans Blix thought Saddam likely possessed these weapons. As Blix admitted at a 2004 University of Berkeley forum:' I'm not here to have gut feelings. But yes, in December 2002 (three months before the invasion) I thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." The non-unilateralist Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama, unlike Bush, sought no congressional war resolution. Obama, therefore, ordered military action against Libya "unilaterally" -- without the congressional approval that he once argued the Constitution demanded.

As Obama further explained in his December 2007 statement, "In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent." So a president, according to Obama, does not need congressional authority -- provided the action involves "self-defense" or "stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

What is the "actual or imminent threat" to America posed by Libya?
Ritter served from 1991 to 1998 as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), which was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destruction and WMD-related manufacturing capabilities in Iraq. He was chief inspector in fourteen of the more than thirty inspection missions in which he participated.

In January 1998, his inspection team in Iraq was blocked from some weapons sites by Iraqi officials stating that information obtained from these sites would be used for future planning of attacks. UN Inspectors were ordered out of Iraq by the United States Government, shortly before Operation Desert Fox attacks began in December 1998, using information which had been gathered for the purpose of disarmament to identify targets which would reduce Iraq's ability to wage both conventional and possibly unconventional warfare. UN Weapons Inspectors were thereafter denied access to Iraq. He spoke on the Public Broadcasting Service show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
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<quoted text>Terrorist supporting jewish bot propagandist you may as well give your spamming a rest as no decent sane person reads your obvious jewish lies and scripted propaganda from israel.Israel is a terrorist colony and the american government is a terrorist controlled by israel.
Most FILTHY brainwashed uneducated LYING SCUMBAGS have the right to be stupid!! You and your lap dog THE SO-CALLED TAX PAYING NUTJOB abuse the privilege!!
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taxpayer wrote:
isnt it strange irag hides chemical weapons in syria 6 years later syria admits to chemical weapons but the democrats say G.W.B. STARTS ILLEGAL WAR obama uses G.W.B. timeline to leave irag and now al- qaidai blowing up stuff in Irag the whole time democrats lie about our war in irag vote ROMNEY 2012
hey dummy! In May 2003 a 155 mm artillery shell IED sits on the side of Saddam Highway, Baya neighborhood of western Baghdad.. A female bomb tech wearing a 100 lb Kevlar suit examines the device which has a digital clock taped to the shell that had stopped at 11:30. She attaches a disrupter, a countercharge designed to separate the main explosive shell from the smaller, electrically activated blasting cap connected to the clock. After exploding the device the two bomb technicians go to collect any remaining evidence. The shell had leaked an amber colored liquid which exposed both technicians to its contents,a deadly nerve gas called sarin. The tech closest to the liquid collapses and the female tech drags him away from the liquid. The female technician managed to plunge a valium, atropine, obidoxime syrette into her stricken, convulsing partner and another into her own thigh, saving both of their lives. The 155 mm shell contained one gallon of sarin. If the clock had worked properly death would have come quickly to 10,000 Iraqi civilians living around the airport and 3000 coalition troops stationed at nearby camp Victory.That the bomb failed to detonate was due to the malfunction of a cheap, ten dollar wristwatch.

Condensed from Seal Target Geromino, The Inside Story Of The Mission To Kill Osama Bin Laden ( 2011) p137

"Documents discovered in 2003 indicated that Iraq stockpiled 21,000 chemical warheads following the Iran-Iraq war, and during the period of UN sanctions..........
Since 2004, Al Qaeda has carried out at least one hundred chemical attacks on coalition forces in Iraq. Most attacks used "repurposed' chemical warheads from Saddam's arsenal- nerve gas and mustard gas. If one believes the WikiLeaks trove, it confirms that Al Qaeda is in possession of chemical weapons and they have been used against US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan....The "no WMDs in Iraq" myth has been allowed to persist because the truth is more disturbing. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S and coalition forces have located and destroyed more than 500 chemcal weapons. Most of these have been 155 mm artillery shells. Most contained varieties of the vesicant HD,mustard gas. VX, sarin, tabun, cyclosarin, including advanced binary weapons ,chemical aircraft bombs, mortar projectiles, sprayers,,and bulk produced agen thave also been recovered and destroyed."

Chuck Pfarrar, former assault element leader of Seal Team 6, author of Seal Target Geromino, The Inside Story Of The Mission To Kill Osama Bin Laden( 2011) p139,141
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Hey so-called Taxpayer and lap dog Unrealirty Nutjob need to learn your history and stop the brainwashed idiocy!! What the hell do you think Saddam used against the Kurds and Iranians?? Smelling Salt?? LIAR! This is how you stupid idiots manipulate the truth to cover your own ignorance. Iraq produced tons of biological agents all by its lonesome dummy. Iraq managed to produce anthrax, aflatoxin, botulinum toxin, gas gangrene, ricin, and wheat smut, and was also known to be working on cholera, mycotoxins, shigellosis, and viruses (including camelpox, infectious hemorrhaghic conjunctivitis and rotavirus) as well as genetic engineering. There are suspicions that Iraq was also working on smallpox.
Iraq denied that it ever had an offensive BW program until the defection of Hussein Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and head of the WMD program in Iraq, in 1995. Even then, Iraq continued to hide as much information, equipment and material from UN inspectors as it could. Thus, many aspects of Iraq's biological weapon program remain unknown. These unknowns include the total amount of germ agent Iraq produced and the status of Iraq's unaccounted for stocks of biological growth media, agents, production equipment and handbooks, as well as munitions and warheads. Furthermore, inspectors say that Iraq became self-sufficient, meaning it no longer needed imports to fuel its BW program. The uncertainties that surround this program made it all the more threatening in the absence of inspections and monitoring.
Iraq's germ weapon program began at a single site "the Al-Hazen Institute" in the 1970s. By the end of the 1980s, Iraq had several more dedicated sites (Al Salman, Al Muthanna, the Technical Research Center at Al Salman, and Al Hakam among them) and had broadened the scope of its research to include just about every major weaponized germ and many viruses. In the late 1980s, Iraq began field tests, although new germs and new sites were still being added. Iraq had also weaponized germ agents before the first Gulf war, and some weapons had even been deployed. Little of this activity was discovered by the UN inspectors until 1995.
By 1989-1990, both Al Hakam and Daura (Al Manal) were producing botulinum toxin on an industrial scale. By September 1990, Iraq had also achieved industrial-scale production of anthrax at Al Hakam and possibly at Al Manal. The activities undertaken in 1989 and 1990, which included field testing of aerial bombs, rockets and other munitions, the expansion of research and agent production, and the acquisition of additional facilities (Al Manal), have never been fully understood, and the inspectors were unable to draw conclusions about the full extent and scope of Iraq's program.
http://www.iraqwatch.org/profiles/biological ....
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US intelligence knows that the rebels are linked with Islamic extremists and AlQaeda terrorists, supported by those azzzwipe zionists!!!
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Syrian wrote:
US intelligence knows that the rebels are linked with Islamic extremists and AlQaeda terrorists, supported by those azzzwipe zionists!!!
Yes but the american government is supporting the terrorist inside Syria right along with israel.
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<quoted text>Yes but the american government is supporting the terrorist inside Syria right along with israel.
PROVE IT liar! ONE OF THESE DAYS, YOU and lap dogs syrian aSSAD ASSWIPER and lil' filthy joey booby whiney quess who the idiot is NORTHERN DIMWIT are GOING TO HAVE A FLIPPIN' HEART ATTACK (IT COULD NOT BE TOO SOON) and for ehat?? THE DISGUSTING FILTHY HATE YOU HAVE BUILT UP IN THAT LITTLE PEA BRAINS YOU CLOWNS HAVE FOR JEWS, ISRAEL AND AMERICA (THE PLACE YOU LIVE AND LOVE TO BASH)! You are ALL flaming brainwashed nutjobs and need mental help in the worst way! Seek mental help ASAP! Most FILTHY brainwashed uneducated LYING SCUMBAGS have the right to be stupid!! You and your lap dogs Syrian Assad Asswiper and lil' filthy Joey booby whiney guess who the idiot is NORTHERN DIMWIT abuse the privilege!!
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US intelligence knows that the rebels are linked with Islamic extremists and AlQaeda terrorists, supported by those azzzwipe zionists!!!
As if we haven't heard this BS a thousand times over stinkin' Arab Muzzie hiding out in the West as in LA!! Get the hell out of this country you love to bash! Just out today! I THOUGHT YOU SAID AL-QAUDA WAS THE THREAT YOU FILTHY DISGUSTING LYING SCUMBAG!! The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi vowed, however, that Damascus would not use its unconventional arms against its own citizens. The announcement comes as Syria faces international isolation, a tenacious rebellion that has left at least 19,000 people dead!!

YOU DON'T READ MUCH DO YOU DISGUSTING PAID ASSAD SOCK PUPPET CLOWN? TIME TO PACK YOUR JUNK AND HEAD BACK TO SYRIA AND FACE YOUR HANGING! I'LL BE THE ONE PASSING OUT FREE PIZZA AND BEER!! As Syrian forces retaliate against rebels in Damascus a day after a deadly bombing attack that killed three regime leaders, reports Thursday as Assad has fled to the coastal city of Latakia.
Assad, who was noticeably absent after Wednesday's bombing, is directing the government response to his top lieutenants' deaths from the Mediterranean sea resort, Reuters reports , citing opposition sources and a Western diplomat.
"Our information is that he is at his palace in Latakia and that he may have been there for days," a senior opposition figure told Reuters.
The whereabouts of his wife and their three young children were not known.

McCain, THE WEST, JEWS, ZIONISTS, THE U.N., THE ARAB LEAGUE have not done a flippin' thing except to condemn your sick, demented, warmongering mental case Assad and you his Paid Sock Puppet!! Stop the filthy lying!! get your rear end back to Syria and stop hiding out in the west as in Los Angeles!!
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<quoted text>Yes but the american government is supporting the terrorist inside Syria right along with israel.
Exactly!! Those azzzwipe zionists are intentionally backing terrorist sumbags!!!
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<quoted text> Exactly!! Those azzzwipe zionists are intentionally backing terrorist sumbags!!!
SOMEONE NEEDS TO HELP YOU SHUT THAT LYING GUM FLAPPIN' PIE HOLE OF YOURS!! Stop talking Trash HamasARAT!! look it up in the Dictionary!! ONE OF THESE DAYS, YOU are GOING TO HAVE A FLIPPIN' HEART ATTACK (AND IT COULD NOT BE TOO SOON) and for what?? THE DISGUSTING FILTHY HATE YOU HAVE BUILT UP IN THAT LITTLE PEA BRAIN YOU CLOWNS HAVE FOR JEWS, ISRAEL AND AMERICA (THE PLACE YOU LIVE AND LOVE TO BASH)! You are ALL flaming brainwashed nutjobs and need mental help in the worst way! Seek mental help ASAP! Most FILTHY brainwashed uneducated LYING SCUMBAGS have the right to be stupid!! You and your lap dog COVINGTON UNREALITY NUTJOB abuse the privilege!!
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joinin the forum for the first time, hope my posts show up on your screen
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abuse again, with the postin of commentary, take some, block others, hey whats up?!
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Since Afghan war Pakistan has suffered 35000 life's civil and security persons total.

First time Suicide attacks started in Pakistan After US invasion of neighboured Afghanistan....

US interface means more killings...Get ride of covert cia operatives,,,They are still problem for Pakistan although they are giving so called aid to our puppet Government result more killing and killing and interfacing.
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Since Afghan war Pakistan has suffered 35000 life's civil and security persons total.
First time Suicide attacks started in Pakistan After US invasion of neighboured Afghanistan....
US interface means more killings...Get ride of covert cia operatives,,,They are still problem for Pakistan although they are giving so called aid to our puppet Government result more killing and killing and interfacing.
What happened after the Russian invasion??
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Since Afghan war Pakistan has suffered 35000 life's civil and security persons total.
First time Suicide attacks started in Pakistan After US invasion of neighboured Afghanistan....
US interface means more killings...Get ride of covert cia operatives,,,They are still problem for Pakistan although they are giving so called aid to our puppet Government result more killing and killing and interfacing.
Pakistan has suffered 35000 lives! Really! How the hell did that happen in pakistan? I don't remember an invasion of U.S. forces in Pakistan!! Hey clueless!! Afghanistan was training terrorists responsible for murdering almost 4,000 American LIVES on 9/11. What are you saying clown?? That we should have just stuck our heads in the sand and cried our little eyes out?? Not hardly!! You may sit back and take it in the rear but most Americans were for taking out terrorist training camps responsible for 4,000 American Deaths!! Stop the ignorant nonsense!!
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Ayreshire wrote:
<quoted text>Pakistan has suffered 35000 lives! Really! How the hell did that happen in pakistan? I don't remember an invasion of U.S. forces in Pakistan!! Hey clueless!! Afghanistan was training terrorists responsible for murdering almost 4,000 American LIVES on 9/11. What are you saying clown?? That we should have just stuck our heads in the sand and cried our little eyes out?? Not hardly!! You may sit back and take it in the rear but most Americans were for taking out terrorist training camps responsible for 4,000 American Deaths!! Stop the ignorant nonsense!!
Terrorist training camps HA HA HA HA,you clowns know all about traing terrorists.

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