Future destination, Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. This report demonstrates what a joke, yet how extremely dangerous this whole mess has become.
According to a report Friday in Saudi Arabia’s al-Watan newspaper, Syrian National Coalition member Kamal al-Labwani said the rebels obtained documents and testimony from a defector from one of the Syrian government’s chemical weapons research centers that indicate Syrian President Bashar Assad transferred roughly one metric ton of VX nerve gas to its ally, Hezbollah.
Al-Labwani told al-Watan that he forwarded documentary proof of his claim to the US Embassy in Jordan and British intelligence in Doha. The al-Watan report could not be independently confirmed.
Israel has repeatedly vowed to prevent Hezbollah’s acquisition of sophisticated weaponry, including chemical weapons. In January, Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike near a chemical weapons facility outside Damascus. US officials said the Israelis struck the military research center and a convoy next to it, which was carrying anti-aircraft weapons destined for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
There was no indication in the report as to when the Assad regime transferred the chemical agent to the Lebanese terrorist group, but a CNN report published on Thursday quoted Free Syrian Army leader Salim Idriss claiming that the Syrian government had begun moving its chemical weapons stockpiles to Lebanon and Iraq.
Baghdad rejected Idris’s claim, and Israeli officials who spoke to the news outlet said they had no indication that Assad had moved the WMDs to Lebanon or Iraq.
The al-Watan report also emerged at the same time as the Syrian military unit running Assad’s chemical weapons program reportedly began scattering the regime’s stockpiles to as many as 50 sites across the country to confound American efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal cited “American and Middle Eastern officials” as saying.
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