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UN General Assembly resolution to tell Syria to lock down chemical weapons

(StarTribune) With the U.N. Security Council deadlocked over the Syrian crisis, the General Assembly prepared Friday to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks, artillery, helicopters and warplanes on the people of Aleppo and Damascus, and demand that the Assad regime keep its chemical and biological weapons warehoused and under strict control. The Assembly was overshadowed by Read More »

August 3, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, and International
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U.N. Draft Measure Warns Syria Over WMD

(Global Security Newswire) A U.N. General Assembly proposal due for consideration on Friday would urge Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave office while pressing his beleaguered government not to employ its unconventional armaments or hand them off to nongovernmental entities, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, July 31). Observers fear that escalating violence in the Read More »

August 2, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and International
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Syria threatens to use bio weapons

(Times of Malta) Syria yesterday admitted it has chemical weapons and warned of using them if attacked, though not against its own civilians, as regime troops reclaimed most of Damascus after a week of heavy clashes. Any stocks of chemical weapons that may exist, will never, ever be used against the Syrian people. Fighting was Read More »

July 27, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, Agents & Toxins, and Biological Weapons
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‘Israel Will Go to War if Hizbullah Gets Chemical Weapons’

(Arutz Sheva) Israel is prepared to intervene militarily if Hizbullah gets a hold of Assad’s chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned in Brussels on Tuesday. “In the moment we see that the Syrians transfer chemical and biological weapons to Hizbullah, this is a red line for us and from our point of view it‘s Read More »

July 25, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and International
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Message To Syria: You Can’t Use Chemical Weapons On Foreigners, Either

(NPR) Headlines today about one of the latest statements from the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad have tended to focus on the news that a spokesman says the government would never use chemical or biological weapons against its own people. The stories take two angles: One, that this confirms Syria has such weapons; two, Read More »