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Old 05-06-2013, 03:54 PM   #33
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To be honest, I usually don't have a high level of trust in the UN, so I'm taking this UN report with a grain of salt.

Usually I would be pretty firm in saying that a Sarin Chemical attack us usually a state based weapon deployment.

But with Iran and North Korea and even Syria bases being over run it could be a rebel group. There would be no real benefit for the Rebels using this kind of weaponry unless they are freaking insane. Its the quickest way to cut off international assistance. Its also impossible for untrained troops to move into those areas, even though Sarin if it was Sarin is considered to be non-persistant, it can still take it a while to breakdown from the underside of objects and even in a broken down state causes serious health issues.

Its going to create a massive instability in the region, if Sarin is getting into the hands of radical Islamic rebels, what's to stop it from getting into the hands of Hezbollah or Hamas, for the most part you don't need a major delivery system, standard artillary and mortars can all quickly lob gas shells into civilian areas and Israel's vaunted missile defense or any defense wouldn't work. Even one or two shells in a heavily populated area will kill at the least dozens and more like hundreds.

If it is the Rebels the Israeli freakout will be massive, Syria's government wouldn't cross the boundry because it would be a state based attack on Israel with weapons of mass destruction and the response from Isreal would be instantly nuclear.
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