WORLD News ‘Syria says will use chemical weapons if attacked’

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: Israel says it will launch a military operation against Syria if Damascus transfers missiles or chemical weapons to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. (TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: Israel berkata ia akan melancarkan operasi ketenteraan terhadap Syria jika Damsyik memindahkan peluru berpandu atau senjata kimia untuk rintangan pergerakan Hizbullah Lubnan).

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WORLD News ‘Syria berkata akan menggunakan senjata kimia jika diserang

By Mardiana hamden | earthWatch REVIEW2012: 24, July, 2012

BEIRUT (AP) - Rejim Syria mengancam Isnin hingga menggunakan bahan kimia dan senjata biologi dalam kes serangan asing, sebagai pengiktirafan pertama bahawa ia mempunyai senjata pemusnah besar-besaran.

Jurucakap Kementerian Luar Jihad Makdissi menegaskan, bagaimanapun, bahawa Damsyik tidak akan menggunakan senjata bukan konvensional terhadap rakyat sendiri. Pengumuman datang sebagai Syria menghadapi pengasingan antarabangsa, pemberontakan gigih yang telah meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya 19,000 orang mati dan ancaman oleh Israel untuk menyerang untuk mencegah senjata tersebut daripada jatuh ke tangan pemberontak.

Keputusan Syria untuk mendedahkan yang wujud lama yang disyaki senjata kimia yang mencadangkan 1 rejim terdesak mendalam digoncang oleh pemberontakan semakin berani yang telah menjaringkan rentetan kejayaan pada minggu lepas, termasuk serangan bom 1 menakjubkan yang membunuh 4 keselamatan pegawai peringkat tinggi, yang menawan beberapa lintasan sempadan dan offensives berterusan ke atas kubu kuat rejim Damsyik dan Aleppo.

"Tiada senjata kimia atau biologi yang akan digunakan, dan saya ulangi, tidak akan digunakan, semasa krisis di Syria tanpa mengira apa perkembangan di dalam Syria," Makdissi berkata dalam penyiaran sidang akhbar di TV negeri Syria. "Semua ini jenis senjata adalah dalam penyimpanan dan di bawah keselamatan dan pengawasan langsung angkatan bersenjata Syria dan tidak akan digunakan melainkan Syria terdedah kepada pencerobohan luar."

Manakala kenyataan Makdissi membaca dan berjanji untuk tidak menggunakan senjata terhadap rakyat Syria, beliau kemudian menyatakan bahawa Damsyik tidak menghadapi musuh dalaman dalam penderhakaan itu, yang rejim itu telah digambarkan sebagai dibiayai dari luar negara dan didorong oleh pelampau asing.

Beliau menambah bahawa terdapat kempen politik dan media asing "yang bertujuan untuk mewajarkan dan menyediakan pendapat umum antarabangsa untuk campur tangan ketenteraan di bawah dakwaan palsu senjata pemusnah besar-besaran."

Syria dipercayai mempunyai agen saraf serta gas mustard, peluru berpandu Scud mampu menyampai-kan bahan kimia ini boleh membawa maut dan pelbagai senjata canggih konvensional, termasuk roket anti-kereta kebal dan mudah alih model lewat peluru berpandu anti-pesawat.

Israel telah berkata ia takut bahawa kekacauan berikutan kejatuhan Assad, boleh membenarkan musuh-musuh negara Yahudi untuk mengakses senjata kimia Syria, dan tidak menolak kemungkinan campur tangan ketenteraan untuk mengelakkan ini daripada berlaku.

Pegawai kanan perisikan Amerika Syarikat berkata Jumaat Syria telah menggerakkan kimia bahan senjata dari utara negara, di mana pertempuran adalah paling sengit, nampaknya kedua-duanya selamat, dan untuk mengukuhkan, yang pegawai Amerika Syarikat dianggap sebagai langkah yang bertanggungjawab.

Tetapi terdapat juga peningkatan yang membimbangkan dalam aktiviti di pemasangan supaya masyarakat perisikan Amerika Syarikat telah meningkatkan usaha pemantauan untuk mengesan senjata dan cuba untuk memikirkan sama ada Syria cuba untuk menggunakan, kata pegawai itu kepada keadaan yang enggan utk dikenali kepada membincangkan siasatan masih berubah.

Makdissi tidak berbincang pengeboman minggu lepas yang dituntut oleh pemberontak yang mengorbankan 4 pegawai keselamatan Syria tertinggi, tetapi memberi jaminan kepada wartawan bahawa keadaan tersebut adalah di bawah kawalan, walaupun laporan pertempuran di seluruh negara dan terutamanya di bandar-bandar utama Aleppo dan Damsyik ibu negeri.

"Ya, terdapat pertempuran di jalan-jalan tertentu di kawasan kejiranan tertentu, tetapi keadaan keselamatan adalah lebih baik. Semua orang memberi jaminan," katanya. "Kami tidak berpuas hati tentang perkara ini, tetapi ini adalah situasi kecemasan dan ia tidak akan bertahan lebih daripada 1 atau 2 hari dan keadaan akan kembali normal."

Pasukan keselamatan muncul untuk menunjukkan kerajaan lebih kawalan dalam video yang dihantar online oleh aktivis Isnin. Beberapa klip menunjukkan militia Syria menyapu melalui kejiranan Damsyik yang pernah diadakan oleh pemberontak, menendang pintu dan mencari rumah di lap operasi menentang pejuang yang telah berjaya untuk memegang bahagian ibu negeri banyak minggu lepas.

Ia adalah cerita yang berbeza di Aleppo, bagaimanapun, di mana Britain berasaskan Syria Observatory melaporkan pertempuran sengit dalam rentetan kejiranan, termasuk Sakhour dan Hanano, di timur laut bandar yang terbesar di Syria.

Beberapa video yang diberikan oleh aktivis menunjukkan pemberontak berjuang kereta kebal rejim di jalan-jalan sempit Sakhour. Dalam 1 kes, tangki terbakar rumbles lalu selepas dipukul oleh pemberontak sebagai seorang lelaki yang terlepas dari turet yang menjulang-julang. Video lain menunjukkan bersorak pemberontak meraikan di sekeliling kereta kebal musnah, walaupun memandu sekitar mereka telah tawan.

Balai Cerap tersebut ramai orang lari kejiranan ini dalam lulls berikutnya dalam pertempuran tersebut. Akhbar bersekutu tidak boleh bebas mengesahkan video yang telah dimasukkan oleh aktivis. Aleppo, bandar terbesar dengan kira-kira 3 juta penduduk di Syria, telah menjadi fokus menyerang pemberontak oleh persekutuan yang baru dibentuk pasukan pembangkang dipanggil Briged Penyatuan. kata kumpulan Ahad, ia telah melancarkan 1 operasi untuk tawan bandar.

Walaupun kerajaan muncul untuk menegaskan kembali kawalan di ibu negara selepas serangan pemberontak itu selama 1 minggu itu, Liga Arab yang ditawarkan Presiden Syria Bashar Assad dan keluarganya "keluar selamat" jika dia langkah turun.

"Permintaan ini datang dari semua negeri . . . Arab: Langkah memperuntukkan," kata Qatar Perdana Menteri Hamid bin Jassim Al Thani pada menteri asing memenuhi Liga Arab di Doha, Qatar, yang berakhir pada waktu subuh Isnin. Beliau menggesa Syria untuk membentuk sebuah kerajaan peralihan sementara merancang untuk kemungkinan era pasca-Assad. Makdissi menolak tawaran itu sebagai "campur tangan secara terang-terangan."

Liga Arab telah digantung keahlian Syria dan ia ragu bahawa Assad akan banyak memberikan perhatian kepada panggilan mereka. Beliau tidak menghiraukan permintaan yang sama untuk meletakkan jawatan sebagai pertukaran untuk suaka oleh Presiden Tunisia Moncef Marzouki Februari lalu.

AP Penulis keselamatan. Kimberly Dozier di Washington dan Associated Press penulis Albert Aji di Damsyik, Syria, menyumbang kepada laporan ini.

Amerika Syarikat memberi amaran kepada pegawai Syria lebih senjata kimia

WASHINGTON: Amerika Syarikat mengisytiharkan Ahad bahawa ia akan "memegang bertanggung-jawab" mana-mana pegawai Syria yang terlibat dalam siaran atau penggunaan senjata kimia di negara ini. Kebimbangan telah meningkat di Barat selepas laporan bahawa Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad mungkin bersedia untuk menggunakan senjata senjata kimia untuk menyelamatkan rejim.

Amerika Syarikat adalah "giat berunding dengan jiran Syria dan rakan-rakan kami dalam masyarakat antarabangsa untuk menekankan kepentingan bersama kami tentang keselamatan senjata ini dan kewajipan kerajaan Syria untuk menjamin mereka," kata jurucakap White House James Carney.

"Terdapat pelbagai cara bahawa kerajaan atau individu yang boleh bertanggungjawab untuk seperti ini tingkah laku yang akan mengakibatkan dalam siaran sengaja senjata kimia atau penggunaan senjata kimia," kata Carney. "Saya tidak mahu membuat spekulasi mengenai apakah langkah-langkah tertentu akan diambil."

Duta Syria berpaling tadah ke Iraq, Tambang Nawaf, berkata dalam satu wawancara Julai 16 dengan BBC bahawa beliau "yakin" Assad akan menggunakan stok senjata kimia jika tersepit.

Komen tambang telah disokong oleh ahli-ahli Tentera pemberontak Percuma Syria. Risikan dari rantau ini mencadangkan bahawa senjata kimia tidak bergerak, walaupun sebab-sebab yang kurang jelas, mengikut laporan awal bulan ini oleh The Wall Street Journal.

Jiran Jordan Raja Abdullah II juga berkata bahawa sekiranya keturunan ke dalam kancah perang, senjata kimia boleh jatuh ke tangan pelampau, termasuk kumpulan-kumpulan pemberontak. "Maklumat kami adalah bahawa terdapat kehadiran Al-Qaeda di kawasan-kawasan tertentu di dalam Syria, dan telah berada di sana untuk sementara waktu," katanya kepada CNN Rabu.

"Dan, sekali lagi, salah satu daripada senario terburuk seperti yang kita jelas cuba untuk mencari penyelesaian politik akan menjadi jika beberapa mereka timbunan kimia itu jatuh ke tangan yang tidak mesra," katanya memberi amaran.

TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: JewishNewsOne

Salah satu jeneral utama Israel memberi amaran bahawa pemberontakan ganas di Syria mungkin akan meletakkan senjata kimia di tangan pertubuhan-pertubuhan pengganas yang bermusuh dengan Negara Yahudi. Kedua tentera Israel dalam perintah, Mejar-Jeneral Yair Naveh, berkata pemberontak Syria akhirnya mewarisi simpanan yang luas Presiden Bashar al-Assad, senjata kimia, apa yang Naveh dipanggil "terbesar" di rantau ini. Para pemberontak, dia takut, dapat memberi peluru berpandu yang dilengkapi dengan kepala peledak kimia kepada Hizbullah atau sel-sel Al-Qaeda dan peluru berpandu mereka, beliau menekankan, boleh melanda setiap sebahagian daripada wilayah Israel.

Ucapan utama Ketua Naveh amaran keselamatan yang konkrit dari seorang pegawai tentera Israel atas yang pertama sejak pertarungan berdarah di antara pemberontak dan rejim Syria bermula 15 bulan yang lalu . . . Pada mulanya enggan mengulas mengenai keganasan jiran, pegawai Israel kini terbuka mengutuk kezaliman rejim Presiden Assad, memanggil pemerintahan Assad, "tidak sah taraf" dan membincangkan ancaman keselamatan baru yang mungkin dijangka mengikuti kejatuhan Assad,

Kebimbangan Mejar-Jeneral Naveh membuat jelas bahawa pemindahan senjata kimia kepada kumpulan pengganas anti-Israel mendahului senarai. Tidak takut dibuat-buat - Syria hari ini membantu bekalan dan pemindahan Iran buatan senjata konvensional kepada Hezbollah dan Hamas. Soalan-satunya ialah sama ada kerajaan pemberontak yang diterajui oleh Syria akan meneruskan dan mengembangkan penyeludupan. Syria menafikan mempunyai senjata kimia, tetapi ia secara meluas dipercayai mempunyai senjata besar - menghasilkan, dengan sesetengah anggaran bebas, beberapa ratus tan bahan kimia setahun.

Syria hanya salah satu daripada 7 negara yang bukan penandatangan Konvensyen Senjata Kimia tahun 1993. Bos naveh - Ketua Tentera Israel Staf Benny Gantz - juga dengan amaran akan keselamatan awam ke atas Syria. Katanya kepada Hal Ehwal Luar dan Jawatankuasa Pertahanan Knesset bahawa ketidakstabilan pada Golan Heights semakin teruk dan lebih buruk kerana konflik yang berlaku di Syria. Israel, Gantz berkata, akan membayar harga dengan lebih banyak aktiviti di sepanjang sempadan dan lebih banyak penyeludupan senjata dari Syria untuk Hezbollah. Beliau mengakhiri ucapannya dengan meminta untuk kenaikan bajet untuk berurusan dengan apa yang dia menamakan "trend negatif."

Mengapa Israel tiba-tiba bercakap atas Syria? Ia seolah-olah terdapat anjakan di sini kira-kira 2 minggu lalu berikutan pembunuhan beramai-ramai yang pertama dan kemudian 2 di bandar-bandar di luar pusat bandar Homs. Imej-imej dan laporan berpuluh-puluh wanita dan kanak-kanak yang dibunuh dengan kejam oleh militia yang disokong oleh kerajaan Syria memecah kesepian Israel. Perdana Menteri Netanyahu mulai muak atas apa yang dipanggil penyembelihan orang awam. Dan beliau menggesa DUNIA untuk ambil perhatian bahawa Iran dan Hizbullah adalah rakan sejenayah sanggup dalam keganasan yang menakutkan.

Jordana Miller, JN1, Baitulmuqaddis.

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: JewishNewsOne

One of Israel's top generals is warning that the violent uprising in Syria may put chemical weapons in the hands of terrorist organizations hostile to the Jewish State. The Israeli army's second-in-command, Major-General Yair Naveh, said Syrian rebels may end up inheriting President Bashar Al-Assad's vast stockpile of chemical weapons, what Naveh called the "largest" in the region. The rebels, he fears, could give missiles equipped with chemical warheads to Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda cells and those missiles, he emphasized, can hit every part of Israel's territory.

Major General Naveh's remarks are the first concrete security warning from a top Israeli army official since the bloody showdown between insurgents and the Syrian regime began 15 months ago... At first reluctant to comment on the neighboring violence, Israeli officials are now publicly condemning the brutality of President Assad's regime, calling Assad's rule "illegitimate" and discussing new security threats that may follow Assad's expected downfall.

Major-General Naveh's concerns make it clear that the transfer of chemical weapons to anti-Israel terror groups tops the list. Its not a far-fetched fear -- Syria today helps supply and transfer Iranian-made conventional weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas. The only question is whether a rebel-led Syrian government would continue and expand the smuggling. Syria denies having chemical weapons, but it's widely believed to have a large arsenal -- producing, by some independent estimates, a few hundred tons of chemical agent per year.

Syria is only one of seven countries that are non-signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. Naveh's boss -- Israeli Army Chief of Staff Benny Gantz -- is also going public with security warnings on Syria. He told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that instability on the Golan Heights is getting worse and worse because of the conflict in Syria. Israel, Gantz said, will pay the price with more activity along the border and more weapons smuggling from Syria to Hezbollah. He concluded by asking for a budget increase to deal with what he called the "negative trends."

Why is Israel suddenly speaking out on Syria? It seems there was shift here about two weeks ago following a first and then second massacre in towns outside the central city of Homs. The images and reports of dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Syrian government backed militias broke Israel's silence. Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed disgust over what he called the slaughter of civilians. And he urged the world to take note that Iran and Hezbollah are willing accomplices in the horrifying violence.

Jordana Miller, JN1, Jerusalem.

Pimpinan ISRAEL bersedia untuk bertindak Bagi Melindungi ARSENAL Syria

Israel akan "untuk bertindak" jika runtuh rejim Syria dan ada risiko senjata kimia dan peluru berpandu Syria boleh jatuh ke tangan kumpulan-kumpulan militan, perdana menteri Israel memberi amaran Ahad.

Keadaan yang semakin merosot rejim Presiden Bashar Assad, menimbulkan kebimbangan Israel bahawa militan yang bergabung dengan kumpulan Hizbullah Lubnan atau rangkaian pengganas al-Qaeda boleh menyerbu gudang senjata tentera Syria untuk bahan kimia dan senjata atau peluru berpandu yang dapat menyerang Israel.

Perdana Menteri Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu berkata Israel telah tidak pertimbangkan khusus cuba untuk menyeberangi sempadan untuk merebut senjata. "Terdapat kemungkinan lain," katanya dalam 1 temu bual mengenainya "Fox News Sunday."

Pada hujung minggu, Menteri Pertahanan Israel, Ehud Barak berkata, Israel akan bersedia untuk menyerang Syria senjata senjata mengikut keperluan semasa.

Netanyahu berkata mencegah senjata Syria daripada jatuh ke tangan yang salah adalah kunci kepada keselamatan Israel.

"Bolehkah anda bayangkan Hizbullah, orang-orang yang conducting dengan Iran semua ini serangan pengganas di seluruh DUNIA - anda dapat membayangkan mereka mempunyai senjata kimia Ia akan menjadi seperti al-Qaeda yang mempunyai senjata kimia," katanya. "Ia adalah sesuatu yang tidak boleh diterima kepada kami, tidak boleh diterima ke Amerika Syarikat dan mana-mana negara damai di DUNIA."

"Jadi saya fikir bahawa ini adalah sesuatu yang kami akan perlu bertindak untuk menghentikan jika keperluan timbul dan keperluan yang mungkin timbul jika ada keruntuhan rejim, tetapi bukan perubahan rejim," katanya.

Apabila ditanya sama ada Israel telah bersedia untuk bertindak bersendirian, Netanyahu berkata stok penimbal Syria adalah "kepentingan bersama" dan bahawa "kita akan mempunyai untuk melihat bahawa sama ada tindakan bersama untuk menangani kebimbangan."

Netanyahu berkata beliau percaya kejatuhan rejim tersebut tidak dapat dielakkan, tetapi ia mungkin mengambil masa hari, minggu atau bulan.

Juga Ahad, Amos Gilad, rasmi Kementerian Pertahanan kanan Israel, memberitahu Radio Tentera Israel bahawa "sekarang, mereka (rejim Syria) mengekalkan kawalan ini senjata yang menjadi sebaik mungkin."

Barak dibuat menjelaskan bahawa Israel sedang bersiap untuk yang terburuk. "Saya telah mengarahkan tentera Israel bersedia untuk situasi di mana kita akan perlu menimbangkan kemungkinan menjalankan serangan" terhadap senjata senjata Syria, beliau memberitahu Channel 2 TV pada hari Jumaat.

WORLD News ‘Syria says will use chemical weapons if attacked’

BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi stressed, however, that Damascus would not use its unconventional arms against its own citizens. The announcement comes as Syria faces international isolation, a tenacious rebellion that has left at least 19,000 people dead and threats by Israel to attack to prevent such weapons from falling into rebel hands.

Syria's decision to reveal the long suspected existence of its chemical weapons suggests a desperate regime deeply shaken by an increasingly bold revolt that has scored a string of successes in the past week, including a stunning bomb attack that killed four high-level security officials, the capture of several border crossings and sustained offensives on the regime strongholds of Damascus and Aleppo.

"No chemical or biological weapons will ever be used, and I repeat, will never be used, during the crisis in Syria no matter what the developments inside Syria," Makdissi said in news conference broadcast on Syrian state TV. "All of these types of weapons are in storage and under security and the direct supervision of the Syrian armed forces and will never be used unless Syria is exposed to external aggression."

While the statement Makdissi read out promised not to use the weapons against the Syrian people, he later noted that Damascus is not facing an internal enemy in the rebellion, which the regime has described as being funded from abroad and driven by foreign extremists.

He added that there was a foreign political and media campaign "that seeks to justify and prepare international public opinion for military intervention under the false pretense of weapons of mass destruction."

Syria is believed to have nerve agents as well as mustard gas, Scud missiles capable of delivering these lethal chemicals and a variety of advanced conventional arms, including anti-tank rockets and late-model portable anti-aircraft missiles.

Israel has said it fears that chaos following Assad's fall could allow the Jewish state's enemies to access Syria's chemical weapons, and has not ruled out military intervention to prevent this from happening.

A senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday the Syrians have moved chemical weapons material from the country's north, where the fighting was fiercest, apparently to both secure it, and to consolidate it, which U.S. officials considered a responsible step.

But there has also been a disturbing rise in activity at the installations, so the U.S. intelligence community is intensifying its monitoring efforts to track the weapons and try to figure out whether the Syrians are trying to use them, the official said on condition of anonymity to discuss the still-evolving investigation.

Makdissi did not discuss last week's bombing claimed by the rebels that killed four top Syrian security officials, but assured journalists that the situation was under control, despite reports of clashes throughout the country and especially in the major cities of Aleppo and the capital Damascus.

"Yes, there were clashes on certain streets in certain neighborhoods, but the security situation is now much better. Everyone is feeling reassured," he said. "We are not happy about this, but this is an emergency situation and it will not last more than a day or two and the situation will return to normal."

Security forces appeared to show more government control in videos posted online by activists Monday. Some of the clips show Syrian militia sweeping through Damascus neighborhoods once held by rebels, kicking down doors and searching houses in mop up operations against the fighters that had managed to hold parts of the capital for much of last week.

It was a different story in Aleppo, however, where the Britain-based Syria Observatory reported fierce fighting in a string of neighborhoods, including Sakhour and Hanano, in the northeast of Syria's largest city.

Several videos posted by activists showed rebels battling regime tanks in the narrow streets of Sakhour. In one case, a tank on fire rumbles past after being hit by rebels as a man escapes from the flaming turret. Other videos showed cheering rebels celebrating around destroyed tanks, even driving around one they had captured.

The Observatory said many people fled these neighborhoods in the subsequent lulls in the fighting. The Associated Press could not independently verify the videos posted by the activists. Aleppo, Syria's biggest city with about 3 million residents, has been the focus of rebel assaults by a newly formed alliance of opposition forces called the Brigade of Unification. The group said Sunday it was launching an operation to take the city.

Even as the government appeared to be reasserting control in the capital after the weeklong rebel assault, the Arab League offered Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family a "safe exit" if he steps down.

"This request comes from all the ... Arab states: Step aside," said Qatari Prime Minister Hamid bin Jassim Al Thani at an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Doha, Qatar, that concluded at dawn Monday. He urged Syria to form a temporary transitional government to plan for a possible post-Assad era. Makdissi dismissed the offer as "flagrant interventionism."

The Arab League has already suspended Syria's membership and it is doubtful that Assad will pay much attention to their calls. He ignored a similar request to step down in exchange for asylum by Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki last February.

AP security writer Kimberly Dozier in Washington and Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.

US warns Syrian officials over chemical weapons

WASHINGTON: The United States declared Sunday that it would "hold accountable" any Syrian official involved in the release or use of the country's chemical weapons. Fears have been rising in the West after reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might be prepared to use his arsenal of chemical weapons to save his embattled regime.

The US is "actively consulting with Syria's neighbors and our friends in the international community to underscore our common concern about the security of these weapons and the Syrian government's obligation to secure them," said White House spokesman James Carney.

"There are a variety of ways that a government or individuals can be held accountable for this kind of behavior that would result in the deliberate release of chemical weapons or use of chemical weapons," Carney said. "I wouldn't want to speculate about what particular measures would be taken."

Syria's defected ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, said in a July 16 interview with the BBC that he was "convinced" Assad would draw on his stocks of chemical weapons if cornered.

Fares' comments were supported by members of the rebel Syrian Free Army.

Intelligence from the region suggested that chemical weapons were on the move, although the reasons were unclear, according to a report earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal.

Neighboring Jordan's King Abdullah II also said that in the event of a descent into all-out war, chemical arms could fall into extremist hands, including those of rebel groups. "Our information is that there is a presence of Al-Qaeda in certain regions inside Syria, and has been there for a while," he told CNN Wednesday.

"And, again, one of the worst case scenarios as we are obviously trying to look for a political solution would be if some of those chemical stockpiles were to fall into unfriendly hands," he warned.

ISRAEL LEADER READY TO ACT TO SECURE 

SYRIA ARSENAL

Israel would "have to act" if the Syrian regime collapses and there's a risk Syria's chemical weapons and missiles could fall into the hands of militant groups, Israel's prime minister warned Sunday.

The deteriorating situation of President Bashar Assad's regime is stoking Israeli fears that militants affiliated with Lebanon's Hezbollah group or the al-Qaida terror network could raid Syrian military arsenals for chemicals weapons or missiles that could strike Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel hasn't considered specifically trying to cross the border to seize the weapons. "There are other possibilities," he said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

Over the weekend, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would be prepared to attack Syrian weapons arsenals should the need arise.

Netanyahu said preventing Syria's weapons from falling into the wrong hands is key to Israeli security.

"Could you imagine Hezbollah, the people who are conducting with Iran all these terror attacks around the world - could you imagine them having chemical weapons? It would be like al-Qaida having chemical weapons," he said. "It's something that is not acceptable to us, not acceptable to the United States and to any peaceable country in the world."

"So I think that this is something we'll have to act to stop if the need arises. And the need might arise if there's a regime collapse, but not a regime change," he said.

When asked whether Israel was prepared to act alone, Netanyahu said Syria's stockpile was a "common concern" and that "we'd have to see if there was a common action to address that concern."

Netanyahu said he believes the fall of the regime is inevitable, but that it could take days, weeks or months.

Also Sunday, Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli Defense Ministry official, told Israel's Army Radio that "right now, they (the Syrian regime) are maintaining control of these arsenals as best they can."

Barak made it clear that Israel is preparing for the worst. "I've ordered the Israeli military to prepare for a situation where we would have to weigh the possibility of carrying out an attack" against Syrian weapons arsenals, he told Channel 2 TV on Friday.

(REMEMBER) Mischief has appeared and disaster on land and sea because of what has been done by human hands: 'Middle East war between Israel, U.S, Syria, Hezbollah, and Iran'. (INGATLAH) Telah timbul berbagai kerosakan dan bala bencana di darat dan di laut dengan sebab apa yang telah dilakukan oleh tangan-tangan manusia: 'Timur Tengah perang antara Israel, Amerika Syarikat, Syria, Hezbollah, dan Iran')

Timur Tengah perang antara Israel, Amerika Syarikat, Syria, Hezbollah, dan Iran. Senjata konvensional pertama, maka perang ketara lalu meningkatkan intensiti untuk senjata kimia & biologi. Digunakan oleh Hezbollah & Syria pada behst Iran, siapa yang terlibat dengan serangan udara AS & Israel pada tapak pengayaan nuklear dan nuklear mereka. Israel di bawah ugutan yang besar menggunakan pilihan nuklear ke atas Syria dan Hizbullah! Ini adalah hanya satu Senario, ia boleh berlaku cara lain. Memandangkan hal ehwal semasa di Syria Bashar al-Assad mungkin menyerang Israel sebelum dia kehilangan cengkaman ke atas kuasa tentera Syria

Conventional weapons first, then the war escalates in intensity to chemical & biological weapons. Used by Hezbollah & Syria at the behst of Iran, who's is engaged by U.S & Israeli air strikes on their nuclear and nuclear enrichment sites.  Israel under great duress uses the nuclear option on Syria and Hezbollah!  This is only one senario, it could happen other ways. Given the current affairs in Syria Bashar al-Assad might attack Israel before he loses his grip on Syria's military power.

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