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Friday, August 23, 2013

The Syrian regime has the largest chemical arsenal in the Middle East

It aims to make conventional forces armed mostly countries, as "historic enemy" Israel. The reports detail the availability of between 500 and 1,000 metric tons of "chemical agents", whose production was carried out in a decentralized manner by companies from various countries. In case of "best efforts", the chemical weapons production effort can reach "few hundred tons per year." There are four production sites which Syria can count: one in the north of Damascus, another near Homs, one in Hama and another near Cerin. The scenario comes from a recent analysis of Rid, Italian Defence Journal, warning that define exactly the type and quality of Syrian chemical arsenal is not simple because the true and verifiable news scarce. The country is impervious to international control he says. The quality and quantity of Syrian chemical endowment follows, therefore, of the attitude of Damascus accessiona relation to international protocols. Although part since 1968 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use as a source of chemical weapons, Syria never signed the Chemichal Weapons Convention (CWC)Also implicitly admitted Damascus some chemical arsenal available to refusing for years to consider any proposed inspection or disarmament by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), ie, the international body that deals the implementation of the CWC. Made its considering that Israel admitted possession of its own nuclear weapons. Moreover, the threat by the regime of Assad to employ chemical munitions against any outside intervention forces, which he said would not happen on their own people, is considered a further admission that it has such weapons. The leap in quality in the Syrian chemical arsenal, said Rid, occurred between the 80s and early 90s , and then had another resizing. In this latest cooperation was crucial between Damascus and Iran in the mid-2000s, which "enabled the implementation of more efficient facilities" for the development of chemical agents. These four manufacturing units are spread over large areas small structures, to reduce vulnerability in the event of air strikes. Storage sites, however, are in Homs, Latakia, Palmyra, Hama and al-Safira, near Aleppo. In its analysis, the Italian Journal of Defense tends to conclude that they are between 50 and 100 heads of ballistic missiles with chemical load that has the Damascus regimeAccording to official statements of the Free Syrian Amy, chemical weapons were used by Syria in at least 18 opportunities in fighting on Damascus, Idlib, Homs and Hama, with no international organization could confirm these episodes.

Free Mubarak l Former Egyptian President Mubarak leaves prison and enters the hospital

Hosni Mubarak the 85 year old man who ruled Egypt for three decades , passed Thursday night his first arrest in the military hospital of Cairo's Maadi district. A medical helicopter transported him in the evening at the clinic from Tora Prison where he had been confined since last year. Earlier, the attorney general had ordered his release after the expiry of the maximum period of detention for all court cases are pending dictator. General enjoys among physicians from their first hours away from the slammer. Two and half years after the riots that precipitated its decline, the most populous country in the Arab world through a bloody and bizarre metamorphosis: the coup of July 3 has converted to the Muslim Brotherhood, which won all elections since Mubarak's resignation on "terrorists" decimated by the raids, police repression, political exclusion and intense government propaganda. In a turnabout, Mubarak is now out of a crowded prison-instead-of bigwigs Islamists. To mitigate the possible popular anger, the authorities reined parole ordered by a criminal court. As military deputy, Prime Minister Hazem the Beblaui issued a decree that makes Mubarak under house arrestThe measure required by the youth movement 'Tamarrud' that galvanized protests against Mohamed Mursi, take "under the state of emergency" that prevails in the country since the brutal eviction of camping Islamists which claimed over 600 lives. Face of general indifference Mubarak's minions have celebrated the end of his prison ordeal congregating around Tora Prison. The leader has chosen to return to Maadi military hospital which already happened long stays since his overthrow . The last time was in December. A fall in the bathtub returned to the clinic where he lived his last days the Shah of Persia. But in April returned to the prison infirmary. His new situation keeps some drawbacks:There is no prohibition to leave the country or the blocking of his bank accountsFurthermore, their release does not waive sit on the bench. The former president to appear at the hearings of the judicial process that is open for corruption and killing of protestersIndeed its first meeting will take place next Sunday in the resumption of the trial that is your responsibility to settle the premeditated murder of protesters during the 18 days of unrest that forced his resignation.The process is the most far-reaching indictment to which Mubarak faces. It earned him a life sentence, overturned in January by procedural errors. The pharaoh who subdued the land of the pharaohs target changes in the most tragic week recent Egyptian history . The violence has left at least a thousand deaths, mostly supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, and police have launched a campaign of arrests against Islamist leaders who has headed the core of the Brotherhood. Its leader, the organization's supreme guide Mohamed Badia, was 'caught' on Tuesday in an apartment in the capitalIn response to the crackdown, the alliance that brings together the hosts of Mursi has called new protests Friday , triggering fears of bloodshed. The Islamist coalition has called his people to join the march will depart from the mosques of Cairo and the adjacent Giza after the noon prayer dubbed "Friday of martyrs'. "We will remain steadfast in the way of the defeat of the coup," says Islamist bloc said in a statement. The cracking will be a test of the ability to mobilize supporters Mursi, weakened by repression, and the degree of hardness of the authorities, which have proved challenging to international pressures that have sparked the latest carnage.