Sirija vol. 2
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#10726 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Vijeće islamske uleme u Libanonu je izrazilo i čuđenje šutnjom Arapske lige, OIC-a (Organizacija islamske saradnje ) i drugih organizacija za ljudska prava na zločine koji se čine nad građanima Madaye.
http://www.shaam.org/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3 ... D8%A7.html
http://www.shaam.org/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3 ... D8%A7.html
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#10727 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Jos jedna ofanziva ISILa na Tishrin branu propala!
Iz Kamislija za Kobani idu dodatna pojacanja.
ISIL navodno gomila snage u Manbiju, pripremaju se za odbranu. Mogla bi ovo biti zestoka bitka, Manbij je veliki grad za sirijske standarde.
Ako padne Manbij moraju bjezati iz cijele provincije Alep. A tada bi YPG granicio sa SAA i pobunjenicima.
Iz Kamislija za Kobani idu dodatna pojacanja.
ISIL navodno gomila snage u Manbiju, pripremaju se za odbranu. Mogla bi ovo biti zestoka bitka, Manbij je veliki grad za sirijske standarde.
Ako padne Manbij moraju bjezati iz cijele provincije Alep. A tada bi YPG granicio sa SAA i pobunjenicima.
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#10728 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Loy. sources: #SAA forces are flanking #Sheikh_Miskin and cut the supply route running to #Nawa. #Daraa #Syria
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#10729 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Pretpostavljam da neka vrsta prećutnog sporazuma postoji i da su Rusi dopustili SDFu da krene u Prdoganovu sejf-zonu. Pitanje je, šta ako brkato pseto krene u rat i tenkovima uđe u Siriju? Turskoj armiji se ne bi mogli suprotstaviti niti kurdi niti izmrcvarena SAA. Bez ruske zaštite ne bi opstali.Kikibombona wrote:Jos jedna ofanziva ISILa na Tishrin branu propala!
Iz Kamislija za Kobani idu dodatna pojacanja.
ISIL navodno gomila snage u Manbiju, pripremaju se za odbranu. Mogla bi ovo biti zestoka bitka, Manbij je veliki grad za sirijske standarde.
Ako padne Manbij moraju bjezati iz cijele provincije Alep. A tada bi YPG granicio sa SAA i pobunjenicima.
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#10730 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Bashar al-Acid - "Džulaga je moj čojk."
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#10731 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Organizacija za zabranu širenja hemijskog oružja, OPCW, potvrdila nakon istrage da gas sarin koji je 2013. upotrijebljen u I.Guti nije pripadao sirijskoj vojsci, tj. da se ne podudara sa onim kojeg je SAA tada imala.
Najvjerovatnije je gas prošvercovan iz Libije.
Najvjerovatnije je gas prošvercovan iz Libije.
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#10732 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Turska vojska je precjenjena. Na istoku zemlje, protiv lako naoruzanih momaka i djevojaka, veoma tesko napreduju. Vjerovatno nisu posebno motivisani da ginu za gradove u kojima su Kurdi apsolutna vecina. E mozes tek misliti kako bi bili volji ratovati u sirijskom Kurdistanu koji brani desetine hiljada naoruzanih kurdskih boraca To je sto puta veci zalogaj od ovoga sto imaju na istoku Turske. To bi onda bila agresija na Siriju, napad na saveznike Amerike. SAA bi se vrlo lako mogla umjesati. Sta bi na to rekli Iranci i Rusi.Maystor wrote:
Pretpostavljam da neka vrsta prećutnog sporazuma postoji i da su Rusi dopustili SDFu da krene u Prdoganovu sejf-zonu. Pitanje je, šta ako brkato pseto krene u rat i tenkovima uđe u Siriju? Turskoj armiji se ne bi mogli suprotstaviti niti kurdi niti izmrcvarena SAA. Bez ruske zaštite ne bi opstali.
Cisto sumnjam da imaju muda za takav podvig.
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#10733 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Nije to bas tako jednostavno iz dva razloga..Maystor wrote:Pretpostavljam da neka vrsta prećutnog sporazuma postoji i da su Rusi dopustili SDFu da krene u Prdoganovu sejf-zonu. Pitanje je, šta ako brkato pseto krene u rat i tenkovima uđe u Siriju? Turskoj armiji se ne bi mogli suprotstaviti niti kurdi niti izmrcvarena SAA. Bez ruske zaštite ne bi opstali.Kikibombona wrote:Jos jedna ofanziva ISILa na Tishrin branu propala!
Iz Kamislija za Kobani idu dodatna pojacanja.
ISIL navodno gomila snage u Manbiju, pripremaju se za odbranu. Mogla bi ovo biti zestoka bitka, Manbij je veliki grad za sirijske standarde.
Ako padne Manbij moraju bjezati iz cijele provincije Alep. A tada bi YPG granicio sa SAA i pobunjenicima.
Prvo. Danasnji angazman "koalicije" ne predvidja upotrebu kopnenih snaga.. stoga i bilo koji vid upotrebe istih je defakto cin agresije.. mozda mogu na svoju odgovornost ali bi u tom slucaju NATO bio izvan.
A.. imam osjecaj da bi rusi jedva docekali nesto takvo..
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#10734 Re: Sirija vol. 2
A koliko tih sarina ima? Prosto neverovatno kakve se sve bljuvotine ovde postavljaju. Kao prvo, utvrđeno je kako se napad zaista i desio (iz analiza krvi otrovanih ljudi) što je novina. Kao drugo, ne podudara se sa poznatim zalihama (a ovi su im baš pokazali sve i kao eto nije njihov, ne podudaraju se karakteristike, smehotresno, plus govore o sarinu ili nekakvoj srodnoj supstanci, znači nisu ni sigurni da li je ili nije baš sarin ali zasigurno znaju da nije Asadov, nema šanse). Kao treće, izvor ove besramne špekulacije je Al Masdar news, bolesni Libanski psihopat, to nisi stavio. Četvrto, čitam sada ova lažovska smrdljiva iranska govna (Presstv) i iza naslova se krije posve drugačija priča (niko ne pominje kako taj sarin nije Sirijski) http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/05 ... as-attack/ Očito je u pitanju lažljiva režimska propaganda sa ciljem da sakrije istinu kako se napad bojnim otrovima zaista i dogodio a ta priča kako je neko preko sedam gora i sedam mora švercovao sarin čak iz Libije do Damaska (mislim da je sarin jako kvarljiv i težak za prenos a da ne govorimo kako je jedini izvor za ovu tvrdnju Gadafijev sin) da bi se zatim u briljantnoj akciji bombardovale istovremeno višestuke lokacije u širokom radijusu Damaskusa je tek smešna...Maystor wrote:Organizacija za zabranu širenja hemijskog oružja, OPCW, potvrdila nakon istrage da gas sarin koji je 2013. upotrijebljen u I.Guti nije pripadao sirijskoj vojsci, tj. da se ne podudara sa onim kojeg je SAA tada imala.
Najvjerovatnije je gas prošvercovan iz Libije.
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#10735 Re: Sirija vol. 2
cbrt wrote:A koliko tih sarina ima? Prosto neverovatno kakve se sve bljuvotine ovde postavljaju. Kao prvo, utvrđeno je kako se napad zaista i desio (iz analiza krvi otrovanih ljudi) što je novina. Kao drugo, ne podudara se sa poznatim zalihama (a ovi su im baš pokazali sve i kao eto nije njihov, ne podudaraju se karakteristike, smehotresno, plus govore o sarinu ili nekakvoj srodnoj supstanci, znači nisu ni sigurni da li je ili nije baš sarin ali zasigurno znaju da nije Asadov, nema šanse). Kao treće, izvor ove besramne špekulacije je Al Masdar news, bolesni Libanski psihopat, to nisi stavio. Četvrto, čitam sada ova lažovska smrdljiva iranska govna (Presstv) i iza naslova se krije posve drugačija priča (niko ne pominje kako taj sarin nije Sirijski) http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/05 ... as-attack/ Očito je u pitanju lažljiva režimska propaganda sa ciljem da sakrije istinu kako se napad bojnim otrovima zaista i dogodio a ta priča kako je neko preko sedam gora i sedam mora švercovao sarin čak iz Libije do Damaska (mislim da je sarin jako kvarljiv i težak za prenos a da ne govorimo kako je jedini izvor za ovu tvrdnju Gadafijev sin) da bi se zatim u briljantnoj akciji bombardovale istovremeno višestuke lokacije u širokom radijusu Damaskusa je tek smešna...Maystor wrote:Organizacija za zabranu širenja hemijskog oružja, OPCW, potvrdila nakon istrage da gas sarin koji je 2013. upotrijebljen u I.Guti nije pripadao sirijskoj vojsci, tj. da se ne podudara sa onim kojeg je SAA tada imala.
Najvjerovatnije je gas prošvercovan iz Libije.
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#10736 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Inače govorimo o strani koja je mrtva ladna falsifikovala jednog od svojih vodećih komandanata i zamenila ga drugim čovekom, dosta mlađim, koji čak i ne liči previše (osim što fura istu frizuru i stajling oblačenja tj. nakrivljavanja kape)...govorim o Tigru, naravno...
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#10737 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Za napad u Guti su odgovorne saudijska i turska služba koje su organizovale zločin i to probale da pripišu Damasku kao predtekst za američku intervenciju. To tvrde američki obavještajni izvori na koje se poziva čuveni američki novinar Seymour Hersh, to tvrde turski (ne kurdski) opozicioni izvori.
To je istina, sve drugo su bajke propale tekfirjsko-haridžjske "revolucije".
To je istina, sve drugo su bajke propale tekfirjsko-haridžjske "revolucije".
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#10738 Re: Sirija vol. 2
A tu je i "najebaće" i "ne znaju oni sa kim imaju posla" te "taktički nuklearni udari" sveznalica i prorok...gde bez njega da prođe neka glupost i laž...inače je smešno kako oni isti koji su do juče tvrdili kako se napad nije ni dogodio, sad u deliću sekunde menjaju priču pa će nas sa istim žarom i entuzijazmom ubeđivati u ono isto za šta su, kolko juče, tvrdili kako se nije ni dogodilo nego sve rebeli izmislili...
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#10739 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Ta primitivna personalizacija neće promjeniti turski i saudijski karakter zločina u Guti; njihovu neopozivu odgovornost.
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#10740 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Nece smjet i skupo je ali trebao bi ako misli da neko tursku politiku shvata ozbiljnom, laju na sve strane a nista ne cine.Maystor wrote:Pretpostavljam da neka vrsta prećutnog sporazuma postoji i da su Rusi dopustili SDFu da krene u Prdoganovu sejf-zonu. Pitanje je, šta ako brkato pseto krene u rat i tenkovima uđe u Siriju? Turskoj armiji se ne bi mogli suprotstaviti niti kurdi niti izmrcvarena SAA. Bez ruske zaštite ne bi opstali.Kikibombona wrote:Jos jedna ofanziva ISILa na Tishrin branu propala!
Iz Kamislija za Kobani idu dodatna pojacanja.
ISIL navodno gomila snage u Manbiju, pripremaju se za odbranu. Mogla bi ovo biti zestoka bitka, Manbij je veliki grad za sirijske standarde.
Ako padne Manbij moraju bjezati iz cijele provincije Alep. A tada bi YPG granicio sa SAA i pobunjenicima.
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#10741 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Zločin u Guti...o Bože...a do juče ga nije ni bilo
Inače Guardian je još aprila 2014 razlupao Hershove laži, iseckao ih na rezance http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... tack-syria
Ovde više (deo o sedam činjenica koje opovrgavaju ovu laž, znači, čista logika, bez najebaće i proročanstava)
Inače Guardian je još aprila 2014 razlupao Hershove laži, iseckao ih na rezance http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... tack-syria
Ovde više (deo o sedam činjenica koje opovrgavaju ovu laž, znači, čista logika, bez najebaće i proročanstava)
Seven issues to address
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But what about his claim of Turkey helping Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, to produce sarin in Aleppo? Seven issues need to be addressed: difficulty of manufacture, quantity, choice of weapon, economics, logistics, concealment, and the specificity of the product.
Firstly, sarin is difficult to make. Anyone who claims otherwise is oblivious to both history and chemical engineering. Germany, the US and the former Soviet Union took years to perfect the process. Its production requires a number of complex steps and the ability to handle highly dangerous chemicals at very closely controlled high temperatures and pressures. There is no evidence anyone has come up with any sort of streamlined method to manipulate the molecules to make sarin.
Second, quantity. Perfecting the process isn't enough – there is a difference between making a spoonful and enough for the August attacks, which would have needed about half a ton. This assumes a scale only reached by big state production programmes. To put it in perspective, the one verified example of non-state production of sarin was the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan. Their many millions of dollars, very large purpose-built manufacturing facility and highly qualified staff got them the ability to make single batches of perhaps 8 litres of short shelf life Sarin. The alleged Aleppo plant wouldn't need to be the size of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in the US, but it would have needed to be closer to that than the size of a house.
Third is the choice of weapon. Of the panoply of chemical warfare agents available to modern science and engineering, sarin is one of the hardest to make. So why was this one chosen? Even its nerve agent kin, Tabun and VX, are arguably easier to produce; mustard or lewisite are easier and use less technology. Numerous toxic industrial chemicals which might "fly under the radar" of non-proliferation regimes could be used as weapons. So why pick the hardest?
Fourth, economics. To make this operation work it is going to take a lot of highly trained people, raw materials, and specialised equipment, as well as a facility. It would cost many tens of millions of dollars. When the rebel factions are so stretched for resources, does it make any sense to spend, say, $50m on a weapon of limited utility? Lavish expenditure must raise a paper trail somewhere; there would be order books and receipts. Let's see them.
Fifth is logistics. You don't turn precursor material magically into sarin: you need about 9kg to end up with 1kg of sarin. This stuff has to come from somewhere, but where? Hersh omits these details, as do most of the alternative narratives. It is simply assumed that things like phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride just get summoned up in vast quantities without someone noticing. Most commentators on this issue have also forgotten about something called conservation of mass. If you use 9kg of material to synthesize 1kg of sarin you end up with 8kg of waste, rather a lot of which is very dangerous, smelly and corrosive. This waste stream has to go somewhere, and someone will notice. There are also the logistics of getting a lot of sarin into rockets and getting those rockets from Aleppo to Damascus.
Sixth, concealment. How do you hide all of this? The building, the supply chain, the people, the money, and the very smelly waste stream. Where are they? They need to be concealed not just from the Syrian regime but from other rebel factions, western intelligence agencies, the Russians, and perhaps even your own people who might desert, get captured or say silly things on YouTube videos. There is deathly silence from Aleppo and we only find out about it from Hersh?
Lastly is the specificity of the product. There are important physical clues found in the traces of sarin at the impact sites of the 21 August rocket attack. One of these is the presence of hexamine, a chemical with no history of use in nerve agent production. But hexamine can be used as an acid scavenger, and thus its presence could be explained due to its use as an additive to the sarin. This idea has been reinforced by both the admission of the Syrian regime that they used hexamine as part of their formula, and by Syria's declaration to the OPCW of an inventory of 80 tonnes of hexamine, specifically as part of their chemical weapons program. Surely, as an uncontrolled substance, they could have omitted it from their declarations. But they didn't. Hexamine in field samples plus hexamine in Syrian inventories, plus an admission that hexamine was in their recipe, seems a compelling case for tying the Sarin in the field to the Syrian regime. How would an Aleppo-based rebel factory somehow come up with the same exact idea?
Taken cumulatively, all these points add up to a very high degree of improbability. Isn't it more probable that the Sarin came from the people who confessed to having a Sarin factory, fired from areas controlled by the government 2km away from the impact sites, in munitions the government had been using since 2012?
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#10742 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Ne ide im prijatelju, pa ne mogu ništa drugo nego da prosipaju svoje brđanske navike. Meni ovo smrdi na Durmitor, mada nisam siguran koja je vrlet u pitanjuChallenger__ wrote:Ta primitivna personalizacija neće promjeniti turski i saudijski karakter zločina u Guti; njihovu neopozivu odgovornost.
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#10743 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Ama, *ebat ih, odakle god da su.
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#10744 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Ne bih da grijesim duse, nisam upoznat sa cinjenicama oko tog hemijskog napada, al cim ih ovaj cica draza ovoliko brani tu nesto smrdi.
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#10745 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Nemoj ba' chelli tako.. ubi' te co'ek argumentima..Challenger__ wrote:Ama, *ebat ih, odakle god da su.
Hvala Bogu.. pa smo na ovom dunjaluku svi razliciti..
Vjeruj nebi valjalo ni da smo slicni.. a kamoli isti..
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#10746 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Nekako mi dođe smešno ovoliko međusobno lupanje po leđima...
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#10747 Re: Sirija vol. 2
molim te da više ne lažeš ovaj napaćeni narodChallenger__ wrote:Za napad u Guti su odgovorne saudijska i turska služba koje su organizovale zločin i to probale da pripišu Damasku kao predtekst za američku intervenciju. To tvrde američki obavještajni izvori na koje se poziva čuveni američki novinar Seymour Hersh, to tvrde turski (ne kurdski) opozicioni izvori.
To je istina, sve drugo su bajke propale tekfirjsko-haridžjske "revolucije".
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#10748 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Challenger__ wrote:Za napad u Guti su odgovorne saudijska i turska služba koje su organizovale zločin i to probale da pripišu Damasku kao predtekst za američku intervenciju. To tvrde američki obavještajni izvori na koje se poziva čuveni američki novinar Seymour Hersh, to tvrde turski (ne kurdski) opozicioni izvori.
To je istina, sve drugo su bajke propale tekfirjsko-haridžjske "revolucije".
Zašto i kako se gluposti lako šire internetom?
Ipak, razlika je u dugoročnoj "sudbini" posta. Naime, naučne vijesti šire se vrlo brzo prije nego rasprava o datoj temi ne odumre, dok popularnost teorije zavjere raste postepeno prije nego što rasprava o temi počne još dramatičnije rasti, što kreira trajanje tokom dužeg vremenskog perioda. To znači da teorije zavjere opstaju na internetu i "žive" bez obzira na manjak validnosti.
http://www.klix.ba/scitech/nauka/zasto- ... /160107038
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#10749 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Ovom lažljivom simpatizeru terorista iznad mene:
Seymour M. Hersh
The Red Line and the Rat Line
Turski zastupnik Eren Erdem
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Tu su dokazi u vezi moje tvrdnje za Hersha, njegove američke izvore i turskog parlamentarca. Od simpatizera terorista ne očekujem izvinjenje, niti ga tražim.
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Seymour M. Hersh
Turski zastupnik Eren Erdem
Tu su dokazi u vezi moje tvrdnje za Hersha, njegove američke izvore i turskog parlamentarca. Od simpatizera terorista ne očekujem izvinjenje, niti ga tražim.
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#10750 Re: Sirija vol. 2
Challenger__ wrote:Ovom lažljivom simpatizeru terorista iznad mene:
Seymour M. Hersh
The Red Line and the Rat Line
Turski zastupnik Eren Erdem
LINK
Tu su dokazi u vezi moje tvrdnje za Hersha, njegove američke izvore i turskog parlamentarca. Od simpatizera terorista ne očekujem izvinjenje, niti ga tražim.
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P.S.Dodaj kao argument i kojeg kanadskog blogera ili ISIL-ovog prebjega,cisto radi vjerodostojnosti.cbrt wrote:Zločin u Guti...o Bože...a do juče ga nije ni bilo
Inače Guardian je još aprila 2014 razlupao Hershove laži, iseckao ih na rezance http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... tack-syria
Ovde više (deo o sedam činjenica koje opovrgavaju ovu laž, znači, čista logika, bez najebaće i proročanstava)
Seven issues to address
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But what about his claim of Turkey helping Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, to produce sarin in Aleppo? Seven issues need to be addressed: difficulty of manufacture, quantity, choice of weapon, economics, logistics, concealment, and the specificity of the product.
Firstly, sarin is difficult to make. Anyone who claims otherwise is oblivious to both history and chemical engineering. Germany, the US and the former Soviet Union took years to perfect the process. Its production requires a number of complex steps and the ability to handle highly dangerous chemicals at very closely controlled high temperatures and pressures. There is no evidence anyone has come up with any sort of streamlined method to manipulate the molecules to make sarin.
Second, quantity. Perfecting the process isn't enough – there is a difference between making a spoonful and enough for the August attacks, which would have needed about half a ton. This assumes a scale only reached by big state production programmes. To put it in perspective, the one verified example of non-state production of sarin was the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan. Their many millions of dollars, very large purpose-built manufacturing facility and highly qualified staff got them the ability to make single batches of perhaps 8 litres of short shelf life Sarin. The alleged Aleppo plant wouldn't need to be the size of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in the US, but it would have needed to be closer to that than the size of a house.
Third is the choice of weapon. Of the panoply of chemical warfare agents available to modern science and engineering, sarin is one of the hardest to make. So why was this one chosen? Even its nerve agent kin, Tabun and VX, are arguably easier to produce; mustard or lewisite are easier and use less technology. Numerous toxic industrial chemicals which might "fly under the radar" of non-proliferation regimes could be used as weapons. So why pick the hardest?
Fourth, economics. To make this operation work it is going to take a lot of highly trained people, raw materials, and specialised equipment, as well as a facility. It would cost many tens of millions of dollars. When the rebel factions are so stretched for resources, does it make any sense to spend, say, $50m on a weapon of limited utility? Lavish expenditure must raise a paper trail somewhere; there would be order books and receipts. Let's see them.
Fifth is logistics. You don't turn precursor material magically into sarin: you need about 9kg to end up with 1kg of sarin. This stuff has to come from somewhere, but where? Hersh omits these details, as do most of the alternative narratives. It is simply assumed that things like phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride just get summoned up in vast quantities without someone noticing. Most commentators on this issue have also forgotten about something called conservation of mass. If you use 9kg of material to synthesize 1kg of sarin you end up with 8kg of waste, rather a lot of which is very dangerous, smelly and corrosive. This waste stream has to go somewhere, and someone will notice. There are also the logistics of getting a lot of sarin into rockets and getting those rockets from Aleppo to Damascus.
Sixth, concealment. How do you hide all of this? The building, the supply chain, the people, the money, and the very smelly waste stream. Where are they? They need to be concealed not just from the Syrian regime but from other rebel factions, western intelligence agencies, the Russians, and perhaps even your own people who might desert, get captured or say silly things on YouTube videos. There is deathly silence from Aleppo and we only find out about it from Hersh?
Lastly is the specificity of the product. There are important physical clues found in the traces of sarin at the impact sites of the 21 August rocket attack. One of these is the presence of hexamine, a chemical with no history of use in nerve agent production. But hexamine can be used as an acid scavenger, and thus its presence could be explained due to its use as an additive to the sarin. This idea has been reinforced by both the admission of the Syrian regime that they used hexamine as part of their formula, and by Syria's declaration to the OPCW of an inventory of 80 tonnes of hexamine, specifically as part of their chemical weapons program. Surely, as an uncontrolled substance, they could have omitted it from their declarations. But they didn't. Hexamine in field samples plus hexamine in Syrian inventories, plus an admission that hexamine was in their recipe, seems a compelling case for tying the Sarin in the field to the Syrian regime. How would an Aleppo-based rebel factory somehow come up with the same exact idea?
Taken cumulatively, all these points add up to a very high degree of improbability. Isn't it more probable that the Sarin came from the people who confessed to having a Sarin factory, fired from areas controlled by the government 2km away from the impact sites, in munitions the government had been using since 2012?
