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• blackstone22

  Posted on February 17, 2012 at 12:30pm

  amy holmes’s job is that of moderator, not interrupter, i wish she would stop interrupting and redirecting the conversation, she does it all the time, ruins the discussion. Let Buck Sexton speak, the guy has the most sophisticated and knowledgeable analysis on Syria and the middle east of the panel.

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• Ezekiel39

  Posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:26am

  Where is the news coverage about this? A Syrian dissident military officer, Capt. Abdul Salam Ahmed Abdul Razek, said the Syrian regime is using internationally prohibited poisonous gas against protestors under the supervision of both Iran and Russia. “The Syrian army used nerve gas to facilitate the invasion of Homs and was planning to do the same in Jebel al-Zawia and al-Zabadani,” Abdul Razek told Al Arabiya. According to Abdul Razek, who worked in the Syrian army’s Chemical Warfare Division, the army has in its possession large quantities of a poisonous asphyxiating substance that is banned internationally. “A little amount of this is enough to carry out a mass extermination,” he said. The gases, Abdul Razek added, are used under the supervision of both Russia and Iran. “Russia is the source of those gases and Iran provides advice on how, when, and where they are to be used,” he said. Abdul Razek explained that prohibited gases were made available only for the Fourth Battalion of the Syrian army and the Presidential Guard. The use of those gases and other brutal measures taken against civilians, Abdul Razek said, demonstrate that the Syrian army has one purpose in mind: killing the Syrian people. “For example, what happened in Rif Dimashq was genocide.” This, he added, is what drives many officers to defect. “Now security forces are very alert and they watch closely anyone suspected of not being loyal to the regime,” Abdul Razek said. “Some office

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