Here's an article things are escalating over there and it doesn't look promising, but hopefully cooler heads will prevail. Sarin is a binary agent that has to be mixed together to be lethal. It can be delivered by artillery shells, missiles, bombs and more primitive means and it is very lethal. We have 2 carrier strike groups in the region the Eisenhower and the Stennis and some ground troops. The Eisenhower was on its way back.
Hopefully this show of force will cause them to stand down. This has been reported on all the major networks so it's not BS. It was reported on NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC.
****************************************************************Syria Chemical Weapons Readied For Use: Sarin Loaded Into Aerial Bombs Despite International Warnings
Posted: 12/05/2012 8:39 pm EST Updated: 12/05/2012 8:47 pm EST
Syria's military has loaded chemical weapons into aerial bombs and is waiting authorization for their use from President Bashar al-Assad, NBC News and Fox News report.
From NBC News:
The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said. As recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence that the process of mixing the "precursor" chemicals had begun. But Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs. [?]
U.S. officials stressed that as of now, the sarin bombs hadn't been loaded onto planes and that Assad hadn't issued a final order to use them. But if he does, one of the officials said, "there's little the outside world can do to stop it."
Sarin gas was most famously used by Saddam Hussein against the Kurdish town Halabja in 1988, which left thousands dead. The nerve agent was also used in a terrorist attack that kill 13 people in Tokyo's subway system in 1995.
Fears that the Assad regime might authorize the use of chemical agents against Syrian rebel forces have grown more acute recently, as the 20-month-old civil war inched closer to the capital city of Damascus. U.S. Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that such an attack was possible, warning that "those responsible would be held to account."