ASSAD’S TROOPS, MORE CHEMICAL ARMS MOVE NW, IRANIAN
ARMS AIRLIFT TO PALMYRA
On
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote:
On
Tuesday, 08 March 2012 Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote:
GIVEN
FACT SYRIA DOES POSSESS CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MISSILE HEADS
Via DEBKAfile
US, TURKISH, BRITISH, JORDANIAN and FRENCH
forces are standing ready around SYRIAN borders for the order to go forward
still to come from US President Barack Obama. SYRIAN President Bashar Assad is
regrouping his army in defense array in strategic parts of Damascus, while
planting mines and bomb traps in abandoned bases. Convoys carrying missiles,
shells and canisters armed with chemical and biological weapons continue to ply
roads to the north, while the airlift of Iranian arms is rerouted to northern
air bases.
The situation in SYRIA as it stands Saturday, Dec. 8. is summed up by debkafile’s military sources:
1. Assad has so far
resisted rebel pressure to withdraw with his army from the capital,
Damascus, but as in SYRIA’S largest town, Aleppo, he has regrouped his forces
for the defense of centers of government against the rebel push from the east.
For now, his army fully controls the western districts of Damascus and areas up to Zabadani on the LEBANESE border. This keeps the SYRIAN ruler’s direct military corridor open to a key prop of his regime, Hizballah, on the other side of the border.
For now, his army fully controls the western districts of Damascus and areas up to Zabadani on the LEBANESE border. This keeps the SYRIAN ruler’s direct military corridor open to a key prop of his regime, Hizballah, on the other side of the border.
2. His second key prop is the air
passage plied by IRANIAN transports for keeping his army furnished with
arms and ammunition. Up until midweek, the Iranian planes, coming in at the
rate of three or four transports a day, were landing at Damascus military air
base, which is section of its international airport. Friday, Nov. 7, the rebels
declared both the civilian and military sections of Damascus airport a military
target. All planes were warned that by landing there they risked being
shot down by the shells or anti-air missiles recently delivered to them by QATAR or
booty taken from the SYRIAN army bases they captured.
Following the rebel warning, the IRANIAN transports were
being rerouted to the Shayrat and Tiyas airbase between the northern SYRIAN
towns of Homs and Palmyra. This necessitates intense SYRIAN army effort to keep the roads open for the incoming IRANIAN supplies to reach the hands of the units fighting in Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia.
3. SYRIAN engineering units are
systematically planting mines and booby-trapping the buildings at the
bases from which the army has retreated. Our military sources were told that
the quantity of explosives Assad’s troops are leaving in their wake would take years
to clear.
4. There has been no letup in the
military convoys heading north with missiles, shells and bombs containing
chemical arms.
Western intelligence sources say Assad is keeping the convoys moving on the roads for two purposes:
Western intelligence sources say Assad is keeping the convoys moving on the roads for two purposes:
One, as a red warning to the Western and Arab powers preparing to intervene in the SYRIAN conflict that any attack or attempt to impose a no-fly zone over the country would trigger a chemical offensive.
And two, to confuse his enemies: The
poison gas weapons apparently moving openly along SYRIAN highways may be decoys
to conceal the operational chemical warfare units which some Western
intelligence watchers suspect are kept hidden until Assad gives them the
order to strike.
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