Sand Wind (1,356 posts)
Syrian army defector tells of dozens of chemical attacks
Last edited Wed Sep 18, 2013, 10:29 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Amman // A senior army officer and chemical-weapons specialist who defected from Bashar Al Assad’s forces says he was ordered by top regime officials to use poison gas in attacks on rebel-held areas. “I am a witness and received orders three times to use chemical gas last year,†said Brigadier General Zaher Saket, a former commander of chemical warfare in the Syrian army’s 5th division in Sheikh Maskeen, Herak and Busr Al Harir. “But I did not implement the orders.â€
He described a chain of command that reached right to the highest level, with Bashar Al Assad issuing orders to the crisis cell — the close-knit group controlling the government’s response to the uprising. Orders were then passed down to air force security, perhaps the most powerful and the most feared of Syria’s numerous secretive intelligence agencies. From there, the orders were conveyed to the army units tasked with firing chemical munitions.
“The decision requires five hours to be made,†Gen Saket said.
“If the regular army does not have the capacity to storm and destroy the Free Syrian Army, and is not capable of attacking a city or a village, the regime will use chemical weapons,†he said.
http://www.thenational.ae/world/syrian-army-defector-tells-of-dozens-of-chemical-attacks
Now, usually, when a soldier claims his army did something horrendous, the DUmp takes it as gospel, OUBLE gospel stamped in gold if it's a US Army deserter. But... Taitertots (5,707 posts)
1. You know what would be awesome.... Evidence to support his claims n/t
Because claims of war crimes are only credible from Western military deserters.
Marr (14,780 posts)
4. Iraq had a guy like this, too. Claimed to have seen their WMDs. /nt
More doubting DUmbasses. Just stick a US Army uniform on him and anything bad he has to say will become truth by fiat.
DUmbasses.
