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Obamas "impeachable" threats against syria produce (Original Post) arely staircase Oct 2013 OP
It's an important step...but is it truly a done deal? TroglodyteScholar Oct 2013 #1
Nth-dimensional chess baby Cali_Democrat Oct 2013 #2
funny how that insult arely staircase Oct 2013 #3
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TroglodyteScholar

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1. It's an important step...but is it truly a done deal?
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 01:00 AM
Oct 2013
It was not immediately clear, however, whether the declaration’s listing of chemical weapons sites was exhaustive, an important test of President Bashar al-Assad’s willingness to cooperate with the program to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons infrastructure and arsenal.

Saying that such declarations are confidential, the chemical weapons agency declined to disclose or discuss the contents of the Syrian document.

American officials said in September that Syria’s chemical weapons program included at least 45 sites. But when Syria submitted a preliminary declaration of its chemical weapons program that month, it declared only 23 sites.


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