Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's administration presented what envoys from two Western governments called a "long shopping list" to fit out and protect road convoys from Damascus to the coast through the conflict zone. But, they said, the agency overseeing Syria's chemical disarmament would reject this on the grounds most items could aid Assad's army in the civil war. "There is no way that the regime will be supplied with equipment that could be used by the army to kill more innocent Syrians," said one diplomat, whose government could block any consensus in the executive of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague. "It's not going to happen." Diplomats said Syria asked the OPCW on Oct. 21 for dozens of armoured vehicles, generators and field kitchens among gear it said it needed to move 1,300 tonnes of chemicals to the Mediterranean port of Latakia to fulfil a UN-backed deal to eliminate its capacity to engage in chemical warfare.