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The Boston bombings were terribly exciting and filling to the news cycle but the rest of the world continues to exist. What sorts of things have been happening in the meantime?

Assad is talking big about clearing his country of terrorists and well he might as the Syrian Army has made recent gains. The clashes have brought fighting close to the border with Lebanon and the US is giving rebels a further $130 million bucks which it turns out are un-needed for paying pensioners and covering medicare costs and sending troops to Jordan.

Israel is saying they'll go in (again) against Syrian weapons, alone if they must. Meanwhile Hagel is making sure all his buddies in the region are armed to the hilt and France and the UK have proof that Assad used chemical weapons.

While we were all watching the Boston bombers, the NATO bombers seem to be getting their ducks in a row. Of course, the bombing swallowed the news cycle so the propaganda effort must have been impacted. Wonder if the Chechens will be linked to Syria or Iran?
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
The Boston bombings were terribly exciting and filling to the news cycle but the rest of the world continues to exist. What sorts of things have been happening in the meantime?

Assad is talking big about clearing his country of terrorists and well he might as the Syrian Army has made recent gains. The clashes have brought fighting close to the border with Lebanon and the US is giving rebels a further $130 million bucks which it turns out are un-needed for paying pensioners and covering medicare costs and sending troops to Jordan.

Israel is saying they'll go in (again) against Syrian weapons, alone if they must. Meanwhile Hagel is making sure all his buddies in the region are armed to the hilt and France and the UK have proof that Assad used chemical weapons.

While we were all watching the Boston bombers, the NATO bombers seem to be getting their ducks in a row. Of course, the bombing swallowed the news cycle so the propaganda effort must have been impacted. Wonder if the Chechens will be linked to Syria or Iran?
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when you say israel will "go in" you mean missile strikes and air force bombing sorties right? cause i don't think israels "presence" there is gonna add stability to that slow motion train wreck...
 
McCain declares war on Syria. He says that he's been saying for ages that the US should go in - and he says that if chemical weapons were used it would be a game changer and he says (that the president says that intelligence says) Assad has used Sarin. Which intelligence? Maybe some of the same bad sources that helped start the Iraq war.

Using sarin is one of the least likely things Assad would do when he has conventional superiority and the US has already stated that the use of poison gas would be a game changer for them. However, the "rebels" have been boasting for months that they have chemical weapons capabilities. Who would gain the most from using them?

No matter the truth, the game has changed. The pieces move.
 
US officials declared in January that the incident involved CS gas, a tear gas used as a riot-control agent. The international convention banning chemical weapons prohibits the use of CS in war, but allows it for riot control; the dividing line is not clear.
Jean-Pascal Zanders of the European Institute of Security Studies in Paris maintains that images circulated on the internet of the alleged attacks do not suggest a nerve gas like sarin. "There are no convulsions or dead bodies," he says, "only single patients being treated in crowded emergency rooms. I'd expect clusters of casualties, and deaths." Moreover, no one seems to have been exposed to nerve agents due to handling victims.
Only one in a series of four such videos "shows any real poisoning symptoms", says Richard Guthrie, an independent CW expert, formally at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
These symptoms appear to be fluid in the lungs and foaming at the mouth. While sarin causes drooling, among other symptoms, it does not cause fluid in the lungs or foaming at the mouth. Many industrial chemicals do and are commonly released when industrial areas are bombed.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23453-threatwatch-did-syria-use-chemical-weapons-or-not.html
 
It's not very likely that any oil will be sold during the conflict. It's just way to dangerous and way too easy a target for the Syrian airforce. This was most likely done to pave the way to re-establish the oil supply once hostilities are over (read: once Assad is dead).
 
Glaucus said:
It's not very likely that any oil will be sold during the conflict. It's just way to dangerous and way too easy a target for the Syrian airforce. This was most likely done to pave the way to re-establish the oil supply once hostilities are over (read: once Assad is dead).
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Further down on the page it talks about how several rebel groups are already in control of some oil fields and producing oil. They are already selling - this just lets the EU buy some of it. On the other hand, it's also causing infighting among the rebel groups as they fight over who is going to get the money.
 
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