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Thread #148447   Message #3826837
Posted By: Jim Carroll
16-Dec-16 - 08:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Syria: the new nightmare?
Subject: RE: BS: Syria: the new nightmare?
What an imposing list of distortions and dishonesty
1   You have deined the existence of the shipment - have said it was not licenced, have said the licence was rescinded, have said that it was never sent, have said that it was sent too early to have been used, have said it was the wrong size to be used by the army   
2   "No recorded or reported instances have ever been put forward that any riot control equipment supplied by any UK company has ever killed anybody in Syria."
No claim has ever been put forward that they have ever killed anybody
The fact that they were sent to suppress opposition makes them evils shipments
3 Cemichals were sold to Syria that were capable of being used in weapons manufacture
"The Government was accused of "breathtaking laxity" in its arms controls last night after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will today be asked by MPs to explain why a British company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six months in 2012 while Syria's civil war was raging and concern was rife that the regime could use chemical weapons on its own people. The disclosure of the licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which can both be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in last month's atrocity in Damascus."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-uk-government-let-british-company-export-nerve-gas-chemicals-to-syria-8793642.html
All this can be confirmed on the Homs Horror thread - lesson - never say in public what you are going to deny later
Jim Carroll