Red Lines, Red Lines, Everywhere, A Future Danger in the Final War
And A Brief History of the Syrian Acquisition Of Its WMD Weaponry.
December 11, 2012
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This Blog is a supplement to “Post-Assad Biological and Chemical Use is a Great Future Danger” Blog Issued December 9, 2012.
The Islamic world is not united or strong enough to drive Israel into the Negev at this time.
If the Syrian WMD weaponry falls into Islamist hands, I fear the future war will follow the pattern I outlined in our Blog of December 9, 2012.
I have tracked the movement of Syria’s chemical and biological weaponry since Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad met at the Syrian-Iraq border.
If I have been able, with my limited intelligence information, to track WMD’s since their meeting, you had better believe the Israelis know exactly where they are at any given movement in time.
Do not be surprised if Israel makes a highly coordinated commando air drop across Syria to take over, remove, destroy, and/or guard the Syrian Inventory of WMD’s.
You will find a brief history of the WMD movement since Saddam and Bashar met at the border following the Excerpt from YNet News.
Begin Excerpt from YNet News
December 10, 2012
‘Passing WMDs to Hezbollah – a red line’
Israeli ambassador to US tell Fox News chemical weapons in hands of Shiite terror group would be a ‘game-changer’ for Israel
Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Fox News that should any chemical weapons reach Hezbollah, Israel would considered it a “red line” and a “game-changer” in the region.
Israel and the West are following the situation in Syria closely, as Syrian President Bashar Assad’s hold on the war-torn country frays.
Related stories:
* Report: Israel tracking Syria’s WMD arsenal
* German spy chief: End drawing close for Assad
* US puts Syria WMD contingencies in place
Syria has the largest arsenal of chemical and biological weapons in the world. The escalating civil war has sparked concerns that Assad’s WMDs may find their ways to terror groups such as Hezbollah; as well as concerns that the desperate ruler may use them on his own people.
“We’re watching the situation very carefully. We have been watching it many months now and it’s not new to us,” Oren told Fox’ Christopher Wallace, on Fox News Sunday.
“Syria has a varied, deep chemical weapons program. It’s geographically dispersed as well and were those weapons to pass into the wrong hands, into Hezbollah’s hands, for example, that would be a game changer for us.”
Asked whether he had any information about the reports suggesting Assad’s army had begun arming bombs with nonconventional weapons, Oren said that he could not confirm the reports.
Israel, he said, “Has a very clear red line, about those chemical weapons, passing into the wrong hands. Can you imagine, if Hezbollah, with its 70,000 rockets, got its hands on chemical weapons, that could kill thousands of people.”
US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both said that any deployment or use of Damascus chemical weapons would constitute a red line for Washington.
Obama delivered a stern warning to the Syrian regime, saying that “If you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable.” Clinton reiterated the warning.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also warned the Syrian president against committing an “outrageous crime” warning it would have “huge consequences.” NATO joined in on the forewarning, saying that “Any use of chemical weapons by Syria’s government would prompt an immediate international response.”
Israel, Oren said “Support (Obama’s) red line as well, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has come out publicly and supported President Obama’s red lines regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
“The Jihad presence is big and getting bigger. And the longer the conflict goes on there, the bigger it will get.
“We have long advocated for Bashar Assad’s departure, long before, actually the outbreak of hostilities. We came to the administration, years ago and said Bashar Assad is too reckless. His father was, remember Hafez? He was reckless, but somehow predictable – reckless but somehow responsible. His son is reckless and irresponsible and ruthless.”
Assad, Oren continued, “Has provided 70,000 rockets to Hezbollah in Lebanon, tens of thousands of rockets to terrorists everywhere. He had tried to create a nuclear facility, secretly. Hafez Assad probably would have never done something like that.
“So, he has to go. He is a loose cannon throughout the region and a danger to the entire region. If he goes now, we would view that as a positive development. He’s an ally of Iran. He’s an ally of Hezbollah. We understand that if Jihadists were to come in, it wouldn’t be good. But, it perhaps wouldn’t be as bad as the current situation.”
BEGIN HISTORY OF SYRIAN WMD ARSENAL
ARCHIVE SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 173A
May 24, 2004
Looks Like WMD Speculation of Update 137E May be Correct!
In an early Prophecy Update in our Archives, issued in January of 2001, titled, “Significant World and Mid-East Events,” I reported what was a rather strange event on the Syrian border involving two regimes that had never liked each other. I now believe it likely that it was much more significant that I thought at the time. An extract from it reads:
“The beginnings of a pattern of military unity between Syria, Iran, and Iraq are now emerging in the Mid-East. Iraq recently conducted large scale military maneuvers on the Syrian border, reportedly by prior agreement with Syria’s new President, Bashar Assad. Assad then made a trip to Iran to hold talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. The talks were described as a strategic dialogue.”
I now believe those military exercises could well have been maneuvers to prepare for the contingency of a possible future transfer of Iraqi WMD into Syria in the event of a U.S. attack against Iraq.
In Special Prophecy Update Number 81A, August 17, 2002, I quoted the January Update of 2001, and the following extract is from 81A.
“In previous Updates we have told how recent prisoner exchanges from previous wars have softened the bitterness between them. The relations between Iraq and Syria, which are ruled by two rival wings of the Baath party, were severed in the eighties, but have been on the mend since 1997, fueled mainly by trade links. We have covered these trade links in detail in previous Updates, as well as the sneaky way that Syria is militarily assisting Iraq and receiving oil benefits in return. So, as much as Syria and Iran do not like, or trust, Saddam Hussein, any attack against Israel must include Iraq in order to succeed. This is one of the reasons that Bashar, last month, sent a message to Saddam on the thirty-fourth anniversary of his rival Baath party rising to power in Iraq. In the message he underlined his desire to boost the brotherly ties between Iraq and Syria. A Jordanian newspaper, Al-Hilal, reported that last week Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on the border between the two countries. The article said Assad took his brother, Maher, and the head of Syria’s Intelligence Service with him to the meeting. During the meeting the report stated that Saddam presented Assad with an ancient rifle taken from the Iraqi Museum.”
Since the conquest of Iraq, we have only found small amounts of Mustard and Sarin gases in-country. I have always believed Saddam destroyed most, but not ALL of his WMD. But where was it? So, in Update 137E I speculated that, based on the extracts from Update 1 in January of 2001 and Update 81A in August of 2002, what was left of Saddam’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), may well have been transferred by convoy into Syria. And, a recent report obtained from the WorldNetDaily gives me reason to believe my analysis was more than speculation. It will be very interesting to see just how much was dumped into Syria. (BEGIN QUOTE OF SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE 137E)
“In the Spring of 2002, Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, the President of Syria, had a meeting at the border between Iraq and Syria. As far as I know, this was their only meeting. I must confess that, at the time the meeting occurred, its immediate purpose puzzled me. The Baath parties of Syria and Iraq had not been on friendly terms up to that point in time. As I recall, Saddam presented Bashar with a large, ancient rifle as a present. A year later, after their meeting, Operation Iraqi Freedom put Saddam on the run, and no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have yet been found in appreciable amounts in Iraq. This has caused me to suspect that the major purpose for the border meeting was to discuss the transfer of the Iraqi WMD into Syria for safekeeping if the United States were to attack Iraq. I admit this is speculation, but time will tell!
Syria is still continuing its support for the terrorist groups, whose suicide bombers have taken a great toll of Israeli lives, and it is continuing its program for the development of WMDs. Bashar Assad is now the main troublemaker in the Middle East. Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Hizbollah, a large terrorist army in southern Lebanon, have met on many occasions. Countless stockpiles of weaponry have flowed freely from Iran to Hizbollah military camps across Syria for years. Syria, which in reality has control of Lebanon, and refers to it as “greater” Syria, could cut off this horrendous buildup of firearms, explosives, and missiles to Hizbollah, but it’s leader encourages, rather than hinders, all activity that will lead to the destruction of Israel.
Without question, the majority of foreign fighters captured in Iraq are Syrian and Lebanese. The New York Times quoted an intelligence agent as saying more than 60 percent of all those captured were of Syrian origin, and the London Times has indicated that many of them are being trained in Syria to kill Americans in Iraq. According to the article, three of the trainees, calling themselves Martyrs of Islam, say that 140 men have entered Syria to increase their skills in terrorist killing methods.
As you know, from my many articles on the subject, I believe that the antichrist is likely to come from Syria. I keep my prophetic eye keyed on Syria. If a coup should occur in Syria, and a new leader immerge who possesses bonding skills between the other Islamic nations, I recommend watching him like a hawk.
My reason for believing antichrist will come out of Syria, or the area immediately surrounding it, can be found in Prophecy Updates 62 to 70, (Those without alphabetic suffixes) in our Archives. (END OF QUOTE FROM SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 137E)
The following information was sent to me by my family physician, who had received it from WorldNetDaily.com. Over the last few months, it seems that the U. S. Intelligence community has received new evidence that reports a sizeable amount of Iraqi WMD systems, components and platforms, were transferred to Syria during the weeks leading up to the launching of operation Iraqi Freedom. However, I assure you, until an absolutely provable package is in hand, one that liberal congressmen and news media cannot degrade in another congressional investigation, it is debatable if the information will be released to the public.
The convoys were first spotted by U.S. satellites in early 2003, but the contents of the WMD were not confirmed. Confirmation came later from Iraqi scientists and technicians questioned by a U.S. team that was searching for Saddam’s conventional weapons, but all they knew for sure was that the convoys were headed west to Syria. However, over the last few months, U.S. Intelligence managed to track the Iraqi WMD convoy to Lebanon’s Bekka Valley, the home of the Palestinian terror group Hizbullah. Through the use of satellites, electronic monitoring devices, and human intelligence, the intelligence community believes that much, if not all, of Iraq’s biological and chemical weapons assets are being protected by Syria with Iranian help, in the Bekka Valley. I doubt if the Syrians or Iranians would be crazy enough to release any of them to Hizbullah at the present time.
Saddam and Assad met at the border in August of 2002. According to this latest intelligence report, the Syrians received word form Saddam in late 2002 that the Iraqi WMD would be arriving, and Syrian units began digging huge trenches in the Bekka Valley. According to the report, Saddam paid more than 30 million in cash for Syria to build the pits, acquire the Iraqi WMD, and then conceal them. At first, U.S. Intelligence thought Iraqi WMD were stored in northern Syria, but in February of 2003 a Syrian defector told U.S. Intelligence the WMD was buried in or around three Syrian Air Force Installations. Intelligence sources said the Syrians kept all the dual-use nuclear components for themselves, but transferred any incriminating evidence to Lebanon.
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