“They are used for all kinds of ordinary purposes,” Coyle said. “Everything from shampoos and bubble bath, to antifreeze or making fabric, lubricants or laxatives.”
Fact Sheet: Sarin in Syria
A question-and-answer format for many of the questions about sarin, chemical weapons usage in Syria and Syria’s chemical arsenal
Chemical and Engineering News Story on Syrian Chemical Weapons Quotes Laicie Heeley
Syria’s cache of chemical weapons is believed to be the largest in the Middle East. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s stockpile of the nerve agent sarin stockpile “is estimated in the high hundreds of tons, possibly over 1,000 tons,” says Laicie Heeley, director of Middle East and defense policy at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation.
Foreign Policy Story on Syria’s Sarin Stockpile Quotes Laicie Heeley & James Lewis
Mideast weapons proliferation expert Laicie Heeley tells Foreign Policy that most estimates for the actual sarin stockpile hover around “the high hundreds of tons, possibly over 1,000.”
“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be
Read the whole thing at the Center website here. Jules Zacher, a member of the Council for a Livable World’s Board of Director, and I wrote a haunting special to OpEdNews that ran yesterday on the threat posed to humanity by biological weapons. Here…
