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Syria Starts Razing Chemical Weapons Sites
2015-01-20
[AnNahar] Syria has begun destroying its remaining chemical weapons production sites, despite being hampered by bad weather and logistical problems, the world's chemical watchdog said Monday.

"Destruction operations commenced in December," Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) front man Peter Sawczak told Agence La Belle France-Presse in The Hague, without elaborating.

Syria had said previously demolition of the 12 hangars and tunnels would begin in November, but work stalled when the contractor pulled out.

Two other Syrian companies were given the project but the firm tasked with destroying five tunnels had to wait for deliveries of explosives and equipment, Syria told the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
in November, after running months behind schedule.

The OPCW, which is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program, in July gave Damascus 60 days to finish demolishing the sites.

"The destruction has began. They are starting on the tunnels," confirmed a Hague-based source on Monday, asking not to be named.

"There was a bit of a delay on the pouring of cement because of the snow," the source added, saying "they aim to tackle one tunnel each month."

Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari has said the destruction process will be completed by June.

Syria finished disabling the production sites by October 2013, however the structures that house them still needed to be destroyed.

A total of 1,300 metric tonnes of chemical weapons have been removed from Syria, with the majority being destroyed aboard the U.S. Navy ship MV Cape Ray.

After an August 2013 sarin attack outside Damascus that much of the international community blamed on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
's government, the regime agreed to turn over its chemical arsenal.

The United States threatened military action against Damascus over the attack, but held off following the chemical disarmament agreement.

Damascus and the rebels have accused each other of using chemical weapons, including chlorine, in the nearly four-year war that has killed more than 200,000 people.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  IIRC MSM-NET > despite all that has happened to to his Regime + Syria since 2012, Baby Assad is allegedly still very tent on developing andor acquiring a NucBomb Arsenal for Syria.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-01-20 22:16  

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