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		<title>Syria Claims Terrorists Behind WMD Attack Will Carry Out Similar Attack in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June, Iraqi authorities claimed that they broke up an Al Qaeda plot to use Sarin domestically and against the US and Europe.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-syria-crisis-europe-idUSBRE97R0N220130828">Obviously Assad&#8217;s propagandists </a>have no credibility, but the reason this claim is interesting is because of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-in-iraq-caught-plotting-nerve-gas-attack-in-the-united-states/">the way it dovetails with the Iraqi and Turkish seizure of Al Qaeda chemical warfare facilitie</a>s.</p>
<blockquote><p>Syria&#8217;s deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday that the United States, Britain and France helped &#8220;terrorists&#8221; use chemical weapons in Syria, and that the same groups would soon use them against Europe.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters outside the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, Faisal Maqdad said he had presented U.N. chemical weapons inspectors with evidence that &#8220;armed terrorist groups&#8221; had used sarin gas in all the sites of alleged attacks.</p>
<p>&#8220;We repeat that the terrorist groups are the ones that used (chemical weapons) with the help of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, and this has to stop,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This means these chemical weapons will soon be used by the same groups against the people of Europe,&#8221; he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>The last paragraph has been widely taken to mean that the attacks were carried out with direct Western aid, but he may simply mean that the West is helping the groups responsible.</p>
<p>Back in June, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-in-iraq-caught-plotting-nerve-gas-attack-in-the-united-states/">Iraqi authorities claimed that they broke up an Al Qaeda</a> plot to use Sarin domestically and against the US and Europe.</p>
<blockquote><p>Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons, as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America.</p>
<p>Three workshops for manufacturing the chemical agents, including sarin and mustard gas, were uncovered, he added.</p>
<p>Remote-controlled toy planes were also seized at the workshops. Mr Askari said they were to have been used to release the chemical agents over the target from a “safe” distance of 1.5km (1 mile)</p></blockquote>
<p>Al Qaeda in Iraq is basically the same group as the Al Nusra Front in Syria. Iraq is currently allied with Syria. But lending a certain amount of credibility to its claims, the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/iraq-may-be-prepping-for-chemical-weapons-civil-war/">Iraqi government put in a huge order for chemical weapons gear</a> suggesting that they are expecting to have to fight a civil war with chemical weapons. That would fit nicely with Al Qaeda in Iraq&#8217;s plans.</p>
<p>While I would normally dismiss 80% of Syrian government propaganda, in this case it is plausible that Al Qaeda has Sarin and has used it and is planning to deploy it eventually against Western targets as well.</p>
<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that Assad didn&#8217;t also use chemical weapons. It&#8217;s quite possible and even probable that he did. But he was using them within the context of a civil war in which both sides were using them.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the kind of war Iraq is preparing for. That&#8217;s the kind of war Syria is already in. We may want to pay attention because before too long, it may be the kind of civil war that Europe is in.</p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda in Iraq Still Threatens America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A foiled nerve gas plot shows the terrorist group is more dangerous than ever. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Iraq-AQ-chemical-agents.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191898" alt="Soldiers wearing gas masks hold bottles containing chemical materials during a news conference at the Defence Ministry in Baghdad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Iraq-AQ-chemical-agents-450x281.jpg" width="270" height="169" /></a>A week ago, Obama declared that Al Qaeda was on a path to defeat. Not only is that not true of Al Qaeda as a whole; it’s not even true of Al Qaeda in Iraq.</p>
<p>During his multiple withdrawals from Iraq, Obama claimed that the mission had been successfully concluded and that the war there never had anything to do with Al Qaeda. Unfortunately Al Qaeda in Iraq begged to differ.</p>
<p>This May<a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/06/01/More-than-1-000-people-killed-in-May-Iraq-violence-U-N-says.html">, over a thousand Iraqis</a> have been killed, nearly equaling the death toll from the worst days of the Iraq War. Car bombings in Baghdad no longer make the evening news, but they are commonplace and despite the withdrawal, Americans haven’t been immune from the violence.</p>
<p>Among the Benghazi attackers <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/world/benghazi-al-qaeda-in-iraq">were about a dozen members of Al Qaeda in Iraq</a>. The four Americans who died in the attack could be considered four additional Al Qaeda in Iraq kills.</p>
<p>But Al Qaeda in Iraq’s real mission lay in Syria. The Al-Nusra Front has dominated the Sunni side of the Syrian Civil War. Robert Ford, the United States ambassador to Syria, <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/12/12/ford_al_nusra_front_is_just_another_name_for_al_qaeda_in_iraq">has said that the Al-Nusra Front</a> is just Al Qaeda in Iraq operating under another name.</p>
<p>While Obama has been taking an extended victory lap, his unfinished business in Baghdad is on the way to accomplishing in Syria what it failed to accomplish in Iraq; take over an entire country. The Al-Nusra Front started life as a Syrian arm of Al Qaeda in Iraq which fed foreign fighters into the Iraq War and made the fighting so bloody. It has now become Al Qaeda in Iraq’s biggest success story.</p>
<p>In April, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq announced the creation of an Islamic state encompassing Iraq and Syria. The Al-Nusra Front responded by pledging allegiance to Al Qaeda while avoiding acknowledging that they are not a Syrian independence movement, but a transnational Salafist front operating in Syria.</p>
<p>All this might seem academic. After years of trying to police Iraq, most Americans could be forgiven for not giving a damn who is blowing up who in Syria or Iraq. Unfortunately as we found out in Benghazi, what happens in Iraq, doesn’t stay in Iraq. It doesn’t stay in Benghazi either.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-in-iraq-caught-plotting-nerve-gas-attack-in-the-united-states/">Iraqi authorities have arrested five members</a> of Al Qaeda in Iraq and seized a production facility for manufacturing Sarin nerve gas along with remote controlled planes that they planned to use as drones to deploy their chemical weapons.  Their immediate targets were Shiite Muslims, but the Iraqi defense ministry <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1098214/iraq-smashes-al-qaeda-poison-gas-cell">stated that there were plans to smuggle the weapons</a> to the United States and Europe.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Turkey arrested members of an Al-Nusra Front cell with their own stockpiles of Sarin nerve gas. Syria claims to have done the same thing.</p>
<p>While there are good reasons to be skeptical of any claims from the Syrian government, Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi/">had stated earlier that evidence</a> pointed to the use of Sarin nerve gas by the Sunni rebels.</p>
<p>The seizure of multiple WMDs from Al Qaeda in Iraq’s operations across three countries shows just how big the problem has become.</p>
<p>In his recent national defense speech, Obama repeated the familiar theme that Bush had diverted focus from the fight against Al Qaeda by going into Iraq and that he had restored the proper focus by moving back to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>In fact, Al Qaeda was far stronger in Iraq than in Afghanistan when he took office and remained so during his failed attempts at defeating and then appeasing the Taliban. While Obama threw away lives fighting the Taliban, Al Qaeda in Iraq was laying plans for capturing an entire country and its WMD stockpiles.</p>
<p>There is a certain irony to Al Qaeda in Iraq threatening the United States with Sarin, classified officially as a weapon of mass destruction, long after the Democrats had discredited the Iraq War with taunts of “Where are the WMDs?”</p>
<p>Chemical weapons are notoriously tricky and it’s likely that Al Qaeda in Iraq still has some work to do before it can successfully deploy a WMD. In the nineties, a Japanese doomsday cult’s Sarin nerve gas attacks only killed twenty people and sickened thousands. But 0.5 milligrams of Sarin is a lethal dose for an adult and the Al-Nusra Front cells had kilograms of it.</p>
<p>Syria as a whole may have a thousand tons of Sarin. The Tokyo doomsday cult planned to kill millions with its 70 tons. And as Syrian bases and facilities fall into the hands of the Al-Nusra Front, it will no longer have to rely on crude attempts to manufacture weapons that it can just pick up wholesale.</p>
<p>In his speech at the National Defense University, Obama declared that the war must end. And no doubt it will. One way or another. Nothing lasts forever. But his implication that America can end the war by becoming more passive is wrong.</p>
<p>The war did not begin because the United States was too active, but because it was too passive and took refuge in the cult of root causes instead of dealing directly and immediately with threats. September 11 was shocking, but it was also inevitable. It is equally inevitable that a terrorist attack will one day occur that will be bigger and more devastating than it.</p>
<p>Washington, D.C. often lives in its own bubble. Having forgotten about Iraq once it stopped being a political football, Democratic politicians imagine that Iraq and its Al Qaeda legions have forgotten about them. The Sarin raids in Iraq, Turkey and Syria are a reminder that Al Qaeda in Iraq may now be a bigger threat than it ever was before.</p>
<p>The Clinton Administration chose not to take down Bin Laden when it had the chance, instead taking refuge in outreach and “smart” targeted strikes that were the predecessors of today’s drone warfare. It believed that showing Muslims that we would engage in humanitarian intervention to empower their national aims in Yugoslavia would count for more than hunting down Osama bin Laden. It was wrong.</p>
<p>September 11 was the outcome of its neglect. Now the Obama Administration is allowing history to repeat itself with more humanitarian interventions and smart strikes that overlook the real threat growing on the horizon.</p>
<p>The Sarin raids should be a wake up call. But this is not an administration that takes 3 AM calls.</p>
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		<title>Barbarians Versus Barbarians in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One order from Assad and chemical weapons will rain down on the country. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/barbarians-versus-barbarians-in-syria/tom-stoddart-collection/" rel="attachment wp-att-168354"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-168354" title="Tom Stoddart Collection" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/72341993.jpg" alt="" width="254" height="192" /></a>At least forty thousand people have lost their lives to date during the 21-month war in Syria. The war has turned into a life-and-death struggle between the barbarian Syrian President Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime and its barbarian Islamist adversaries. Every day brings fresh evidence of atrocities committed by both sides. Innocent civilians living within Syria and the surrounding region are caught in the middle.</p>
<p>The latest outrage is the Assad regime&#8217;s reported preparation of chemical weapons for use in wiping out its enemies, irrespective of civilian casualties, as a last resort to stave off the regime&#8217;s collapse.</p>
<p>Syria has loaded deadly sarin gas materials into chemical warheads. All that remains is an order by Assad to load the warheads onto dozens of fighter bombers and launch an attack on the rebel forces.</p>
<p>Sarin is the same lethal chemical agent that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein used to kill 5,000 Kurds with one attack in 1988.  Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer was quoted as telling CNN that a Syrian city such as Homs, with a population of about a million people, could lose a third of the people in a few hours from a chemical attack.</p>
<p>President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have warned the Syrian regime that the use of chemical weapons would constitute a &#8220;red line&#8221; for which there would be severe consequences. But whatever consequences the Obama administration has in mind may well be too late to save thousands of civilians from the lethal consequences of a chemical attack.</p>
<p>Russia is reportedly softening its support for Assad because of the chemical weapons threat and has been conducting talks with the United States on possible diplomatic moves to help ease Assad from power. Secretary of State Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavro met with UN Special Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on December 6th in Dublin to discuss whether there was a viable path forward for a political transition in Syria as proposed by Brahimi.</p>
<p>In his statement to the press following the Dublin meeting, Brahmi said:</p>
<p>&#8220;I have taken the opportunity of this conference to ask the Foreign Ministers of the United States and Russia to get together with me to discuss the very, very, very bad situation in Syria.</p>
<p>I am discussing this situation with all the countries that I call that have influence and interest or both – and definitely this is the case for Russia and the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have discussed therefore the situation in Syria and we have also talked a little bit about how we can work out, hopefully, a process that will get Syria back from the brink, to put together a peace process&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The bottom line, however, was that there were no &#8220;sensational decisions&#8221; reached at the meeting.</p>
<p>Given the chemical warfare threat, the U.S. may not wait for a diplomatic solution. The <em>London Times</em> reports that the Obama administration is &#8220;ready to launch military action in Syria &#8216;within days&#8217; if President Assad resorts to mobilising chemical weapons in an attempt to repel rebel forces trying to seize Damascus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Assad is only one side of the barbarian equation. The Obama administration has backed the arming of rebel groups in Syria through channels set up by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, even though we did not know whether the recipients were friends or foes. According to a front page article in the <em>New York Times</em> on December 6th, the administration is finally waking up to the fact that some of these weapons are ending up in the hands of Islamic jihadists:</p>
<p>&#8220;The Obama administration did not initially raise objections when Qatar began shipping arms to opposition groups in Syria, even if it did not offer encouragement, according to current and former administration officials. But they said the United States has growing concerns that, just as in Libya, the Qataris are equipping some of the wrong militants.&#8221;</p>
<p>The jihadists will inevitably turn those weapons against the &#8220;infidels&#8221; in Syria and against us, as happened after the Obama administration looked the other way when Islamic jihadists in Libya were armed during the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The difference in Syria is that the danger does not end with standard conventional weapons in the hands of al Qaeda fighters seeking to topple the Assad regime. They may get their hands on the Assad regime&#8217;s chemical weapons if the regime crumbles.</p>
<p>The Obama administration is finally waking up to this danger as well. &#8220;Our concerns are that an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons,  or might lose control of them to one of the many groups that are now operating within Syria,” Secretary of State Clinton said at the conclusion of NATO ministerial meetings in Brussels this week.</p>
<p>However, the unintended consequence of ousting Assad by whatever means, without simultaneously securing <em>all</em> of his vast chemical weapons stockpile, may be the turn-over of these weapons of mass destruction to al Qaeda. Also, on his way out, Assad may order his forces who stay behind to transfer chemical weapons to Hezbollah and Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards who are still in Syria.</p>
<p>Outside of Syria itself, Israel is the country in the region most likely to be at the greatest risk from chemical weapons used by either the Assad or jihadist barbarians.</p>
<p>Just as mortar shells spilled over into Israeli territory during the fighting between Syrian government and opposition forces, chemical weapons do not observe national boundaries. Moreover, Syria still considers itself to be &#8220;in a state of war with Israel&#8221; whom it regards as its &#8220;main enemy,&#8221; quoting the  Syrian UN Ambassador H.E. Dr. Bashar Ja&#8217;afari in side remarks he made to another UN correspondent and myself on the day that the UN General Assembly passed the resolution upgrading the Palestinians&#8217; status to an observer state.</p>
<p>The Syrian ambassador sounded his war drum against Israel off camera to just the two of us, after sounding a more moderate note while briefing many more UN correspondents on camera. In his on camera briefing, he generally supported Brahimi&#8217;s plan for a cease fire and a transition but said that the violence perpetrated by <em>Arab</em> countries against Syria must first stop. Only off camera did he brand Israel, not the terrorists or the Arab countries arming them, as Syria&#8217;s &#8220;main enemy&#8221; with whom Syria remains in &#8220;a state of war.&#8221;</p>
<p>Facing such pathological thinking, Israel has every reason to be concerned that, if Assad decides to drop chemical weapons on his own people, he won&#8217;t hesitate to include some Israeli civilians in his carnage.  Nevertheless, Israel will be prepared to mitigate casualties from an air attack with chemical weapons launched by Assad, according to an Israeli intelligence expert with twenty-five years of experience in the field.  Lt. Col. (res.) Mordechai Kedar told <a href="https://warsclerotic.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/israel-can-deal-with-syrian-chemical-threat/"><em>Arutz Sheva</em></a> in an exclusive interview on December 6th that if the gas is in an aerial bomb, it is “very easy to deal with. The Air Force knows very well how to deal with such things. An aerial bomb is a traditional weapon,” he said, even when it is carrying a payload of sarin. “Missiles are much faster,” he added, “but still they too can be dealt with.”</p>
<p>Terrorists present a different sort of challenge because of the variety of ways they can introduce chemical weapons surreptitiously.</p>
<p>Chemical weapons left behind if Assad does leave Syria may fall into the hands of Hezbollah and Iran, which won&#8217;t hesitate to use them against Israel.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda and other Sunni Islamist jihadists, whose sophisticated arms will put them in the best position to fill the power vacuum left behind by Assad&#8217;s departure, may also threaten Israel with any chemical weapons they get their hands on. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri specifically linked al Qaeda&#8217;s jihad in Syria with the ongoing fight against Israel.</p>
<p>“Supporting jihad in Syria to establish a Muslim state is a basic step towards Jerusalem,” Zawahiri said last September. Earlier in the year, he called upon jihadists to &#8220;Establish a state that defends the Muslim countries, seeks to free the Golan, and continues Jihad until the flag of victory is raised above the usurped hills of al-Quds [mosque in Jerusalem].&#8221;</p>
<p>Israel is working closely with the United States as the Syrian crisis deepens. Israeli intelligence and other agencies have been “working this problem round the clock,” CNN reported.  In addition, Israel&#8217;s home grown sophisticated air defense technology, demonstrated successfully in the Iron Dome&#8217;s interception of missiles launched from Gaza, may prove useful to the U.S. and its other allies in intercepting planes and missiles armed with chemical weapons in mid-air before they can do extensive damage.</p>
<p>In a region seething with barbarian dictators and barbarian Islamist jihadists who value death over life, the one island of sanity and true democracy is Israel. The United States needs a viable Israel as our closest steadfast ally in this cauldron, as much as Israel needs the United States to remain that way.</p>
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