chemical-weapons
Hersh: Obama "Cherry-Picked" Intelligence to Justify Assad Strike
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 12/08/13 01:53PMSeymour Hersh, one of the best-sourced journalists in America, reports that the Obama administration "cherry-picked" intelligence to justify an attack on the Assad regime, ignoring reports that the sarin gas attack on civilians last August could have been carried out by a fundamentalist rebel group instead.
After Other Nations Refuse, U.S. To Destroy Syrian Chemical Weapons
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 11/30/13 04:40PMAfter a U.S. strike on Syria was narrowly avoided this past September, Syria agreed to give up its entire chemical weapons stockpile. While a diplomatic success, the agreement still posed several logistical issues, the most pressing of which was who would destroy the chemical weapons. Left with little option, the United States has agreed to destroy the weapons itself at sea.
Lacey Donohue · 10/06/13 05:39PM
The destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal officially began on Sunday. A team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons oversaw Syrian personnel use cutting torches and disc saws to “destroy and disable a range of items, including missile warheads, aerial bombs, and mixing and filling equipment.”
Cord Jefferson · 09/27/13 07:01PM
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons just approved a plan to take Syria's chemicals: "The agreement ... allows the start of a mission to rid Syria's regime of its estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal by mid-2014, significantly accelerating a destruction timetable that often takes years to complete."
U.S. and Russia Agree on Deal to Secure Syria's Chemical Weapons
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 09/14/13 10:51AMSyria to Declare Chemical Weapons, Plans to "Give Them Up Altogether"
Cord Jefferson · 09/10/13 01:45PMRodale CEO Likens Syria's Use of Chemical Weapons to Pesticides
Camille Dodero · 09/04/13 02:35PMMaria Rodale, the CEO and chairman of publishing house Rodale, Inc., used to love and to support Barack Obama. She supported Barack Obama so deeply that she not only voted for him twice and attended his first inauguration, she also "paid a lot of money to have my picture taken" with him. And because of this fealty, she would like to have a word with him—or you, actually, Mr. President Barack Obama, since that's who she's addressing in this open letter published today the Huffington Post.
U.S. Intercepted Calls From Syrian Army Discussing Chemical Attack
Taylor Berman · 08/27/13 11:09PMAccording to a report in Foreign Policy, U.S. intelligence agents intercepted "panicked" phone calls last Wednesday between officials at the Syrian Ministry of Defense and the leaders of a Syrian chemical weapons unit. The calls, along with visual evidence, are the principal reasons the Obama administration believes the Syrian government is responsible for last week's alleged chemical weapon assault against Syrian civilians. Earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry called the alleged attacks a "moral obscenity" and President Obama ordered the release of a document justifying a military strike against Syria.
Snipers Attack U.N. Team Investigating Syria Chemical Strike
Max Read · 08/26/13 08:02AM"Reaction of Force" Demanded for Syrian Chemical Attack
Maggie Lange · 08/22/13 09:57AMGruesome Videos Show Horrors of Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack
Max Read · 08/21/13 09:46AMHundreds Killed in "Chemical Weapon" Attack in Syria
Maggie Lange · 08/21/13 07:53AMU.N. Panel on Syria: Chemical Weapons, Other War Crimes on Both Sides
Max Read · 06/04/13 07:38AMChemical Weapon Attack? Syrian Government, Rebels Trade Accusations
Max Read · 03/19/13 11:03AMThe Syrian government and the rebels have each accused the other of using chemical weapons in a missile attack that killed 25 people on Tuesday, though U.S. and British officials have expressed skepticism that such weapons were used at all. President Obama has described chemical weapons being used or moved in large numbers as a "red line" for the U.S. government's decision to intervene in the ongoing civil war.