War with Syria
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fanaskin
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Assad should demand Israel get rid of its chemical weapons as well.
Report: CIA believes Israel acquired chemical weapons decades ago
According to Foreign Policy, Work on the project was stepped up following the near disaster of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when attacking Arab armies caught the state by surprise on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
The report also claims that in January 1976, US intelligence was led to believe that Israel conducted a "possible test" of chemical weapons in the Negev desert. The report quotes a US air force intelligence officer, who says that the US National Security Agency intercepted communications which proved that Israel Air Force bombers conducted simulated chemical weapons delivery missions at a bombing range in the Negev.
The author of the report also claims to have identified a possible site for the storage of chemical weapons in the Negev. After intensive research on Google Maps, the writer surmised that "imagery search found what I believe is the location of the Israeli nerve agent production facility and its associated chemical weapons storage area in a desolate and virtually uninhabited area of the Negev Desert just east of the village of al-Kilab, which is only 10 miles west of the outskirts of the city of Dimona."
Report: CIA believes Israel acquired chemical weapons decades ago
According to Foreign Policy, Work on the project was stepped up following the near disaster of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when attacking Arab armies caught the state by surprise on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
The report also claims that in January 1976, US intelligence was led to believe that Israel conducted a "possible test" of chemical weapons in the Negev desert. The report quotes a US air force intelligence officer, who says that the US National Security Agency intercepted communications which proved that Israel Air Force bombers conducted simulated chemical weapons delivery missions at a bombing range in the Negev.
The author of the report also claims to have identified a possible site for the storage of chemical weapons in the Negev. After intensive research on Google Maps, the writer surmised that "imagery search found what I believe is the location of the Israeli nerve agent production facility and its associated chemical weapons storage area in a desolate and virtually uninhabited area of the Negev Desert just east of the village of al-Kilab, which is only 10 miles west of the outskirts of the city of Dimona."
Loser Araysar
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fanaskin
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Are you up to date on what happened in Benghazi? That it was running guns to jihadists? More people where killed than reported and thre where ~35 CIA agents involved in the fight?
The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a reported US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports.
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
Sources: Al Qaeda-linked group behind Benghazi attack trains jihadists for Syrian rebel groups
Chukzombi
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yes, great reasoning, forgetting such things a month after they happen wont in any way come back to bite anyone in the ass or reoccur.
fanaskin
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It seems obvious, The very same people they transferred from Libya to turkey and Jordan. The ones they are arming and training to "rebel" in syria that often say they hate America, al Qaeda are the people that were also involved.
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So according to you - the people responsible for storming CIA"s gunrunning operation in benghazi are the same people who are receiving the very same arms from the CIA.
Well I dont know about you, but that just doesnt sound right.
fanaskin
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No it doesn't does it. But who else are they going to use(d) to topple gadaffi and Assad? America is so war weary it won't even approve of missile strikes. The president has been bypassing even getting the weaker authorization of force from congress. The only way Obama was even able to bypass the congressional power of the purse for libya was to use military funding already appropriated and repurpose that funding, which barely covered the costs.
Besides Saudi Arabia controls the jihadis as bandar bush showed in the face to face with Putin. They probably think of them as useful assets just Like the Arabs where assets to the British in ww1 even though the Arabs basically kept to themselves and fought for their own goals.
I see it as the delicate sometimes paradoxical situations that occur when you follow the maxim that the " enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Who would have ever thought in 1939 that Churchill and Stalin would be allies? Russia attacked Poland as well which is what set off ww2. Churchill abhorred communism and wanted to declare war on Russia in 1940 to start bombing them. They were allies of convenience and necessity even though they were arch enemies geo politically.
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At least that's my current theory it seems to fit the evidence and the overall narrative of all the recent middle eastern conflicts.
I don't claim to know exactly what went down or why, Probably it was just a small group that attacked only loosely affiliated with the people we are arming, and who knows the motive, maybe it was just tensions that flared up for stupid reasons. but having arrests and investigations about an arms running deal would shed more light about what is going on over there than they are comfortable with.
Plus you gotta remember all of this went down in the middle of a presidential race, there was obvious motive to keep silent about arming rebels for a war when you are running as an anti war president which Obama was doing at the time.
Besides Saudi Arabia controls the jihadis as bandar bush showed in the face to face with Putin. They probably think of them as useful assets just Like the Arabs where assets to the British in ww1 even though the Arabs basically kept to themselves and fought for their own goals.
I see it as the delicate sometimes paradoxical situations that occur when you follow the maxim that the " enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Who would have ever thought in 1939 that Churchill and Stalin would be allies? Russia attacked Poland as well which is what set off ww2. Churchill abhorred communism and wanted to declare war on Russia in 1940 to start bombing them. They were allies of convenience and necessity even though they were arch enemies geo politically.
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At least that's my current theory it seems to fit the evidence and the overall narrative of all the recent middle eastern conflicts.
I don't claim to know exactly what went down or why, Probably it was just a small group that attacked only loosely affiliated with the people we are arming, and who knows the motive, maybe it was just tensions that flared up for stupid reasons. but having arrests and investigations about an arms running deal would shed more light about what is going on over there than they are comfortable with.
Plus you gotta remember all of this went down in the middle of a presidential race, there was obvious motive to keep silent about arming rebels for a war when you are running as an anti war president which Obama was doing at the time.
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fanaskin
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AL Qaeda is like a million different splinter groups maybe they where mad america was taking the arms away from local Libyan groups and shipping them to turkey, to arm some other group that they didn't like.
So I guess yes it's probably not the "same exact people"
I Have to think about it more.
And don't take from what I question about the situation that it automatically means republicans are innocent either, there is a "bipartisan consensus on foreign policy" so there's a high chance that there are at least some (probably centrist) republicans who know shit they won't talk about because it would implicate themselves or their party or violate some oath.
So I guess yes it's probably not the "same exact people"
I Have to think about it more.
And don't take from what I question about the situation that it automatically means republicans are innocent either, there is a "bipartisan consensus on foreign policy" so there's a high chance that there are at least some (probably centrist) republicans who know shit they won't talk about because it would implicate themselves or their party or violate some oath.
Gravel
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Fucking hell man. You're driving me crazy with this shit. It's like you stole a play out of the Merlin handbook. And it's been going on for pages now, I just finally brought it up cause this was 2 posts in a row.
I'm sorry jersey shore was cancelled, don't they have a real wives of jersey you can watch instead.
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