Expert: Syrian rebels have "strong incentives" to use chemical weapons to incriminate Assad [View all]

[David Krout]

Determining culpability is essential in the Syrian conflict because opposition forces likely possess strong incentives to use chemical weapons as a ruse to incriminate Assad and generate the U.S. military support they need to topple his regime. Such ambiguities will empower key supporters of the Assad regime – most notably Russia and China – to maintain their strong opposition to U.S. military activities in Syria.Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/319473-syrias-age-old-question

By Charles C. Pierce.

"Mr. Blair is a columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and, since 2010, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University where he instructs graduate students about the technologies underlying WMD; at George Mason University Mr. Blair lectures on the nexus of terrorism and WMD.  Before joining FAS, he was a research associate with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) where, among other projects, he helped initiate the first of several projects under the rubric ofAnatomizing Nuclear and Radiological Non-State Adversaries (under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security)."

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