As the media has misdirected focused our attention on the “fiscal cliff”, the events transpiring in the Middle East may be coming to an end. Putin has taken control of Iraq’s Iran’s chemical weapons and Israel is backing their statement. And where is the United States? Hillary Clinton will be excluded from any further investigation of Benghazi since she is being replaced by John Kerry. Why? Obama is in Hawaii enjoying a multi-million dollar Christmas vacation at taxpayers’ expense. And the GOP is stalemated once again after being outmaneuvered by Obama and Reid.
The surprising twist is that the rest of the world is realizing that the United States is rapidly fading as a superpower and its influence in world affairs is falling faster than anticipated. Let us hope that the new year will allow patriots to understand the implications inherent in a Socialist takeover of our country as the rest of the world now knows.
David DeGerolamo
Israel backs Russia’s avowal that Syrian chemical arms are secure “for now”
Chemical weapons store
“At the moment, [Syria’s] chemical weapons are under control,” said senior Israeli defense official Amos Gilad Sunday, Dec. 23, echoing the statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Saturday that “the Syrian government has “consolidated its chemical weapons in one or two locations amid a rebel onslaught and they are under control for the time being.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu then said enigmatically: “We are facing a near possibility of far-reaching changes in the Syrian regime with ramifications for the sensitive weaponry [chemical, biological] present there.”
Like Lavrov’s comments, neither Israeli statement accounted for the sudden reversal of events in the last 48 hours in the turbulent history of its northern neighbor. As recently as Friday, Bashar Assad’s Scuds and warplanes were battling the rebels to keep his big chemical and biological warfare arsenals at the Al Safira complex near Aleppo out of the hands of al Qaeda adherents who were moving in fast on this target.
Twenty four hours later, the Russian foreign minister asserted the weapons were secure.
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that the battle of al Safira was abruptly interrupted by a foreign military force which stepped in and stopped the fighting in order to commandeer the chemical and biological stocks.
