Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Libya: Qaddafi's poison gas reserves concerns U.S.

Unclear fronts, an irrational dictator - and tons of poison gas: Libya's revolutionary struggle for political freedom, but the more chaotic the situation develops, the greater the concerns about the considerable arsenal of staggering dictator Gaddafi. Large parts of Libya are no longer under control of the dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, including two of the three largest cities in the country and probably some military bases, the crew has either fled or joined the opposition is.


But still the power struggle in the desert country is not decided Gaddafi defends himself against his dismissal - by all means. Combat aircraft is said to have been used against their own people. If he also in a position that protesters and revolutionaries to attack with poison gas? What is certain is that Libya still around 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas are stored.

These are the remnants of a chemical-biological weapons program, Gadhafi pledged to abandon it in 2003. Shortly before, he had changed from the sponsor of terror to the U.S. comrades. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the news agency that it had monitored the destruction of more than 3,300 Libyan weapons systems for the application of chemical warfare agents since 2004.

According to the organization all the evidence that Libya has actually destroyed all application systems. The poison gas is under the control of the military - but what does that mean? The mustard gas stocks are supposed to be destroyed long ago. However, due to years of diplomatic wrangling - it discussed included the cost of disposal - Libya received an extension until May 2011, to make the rest of about 9.5 tons of poison gas harmless.

According to the OPCW, the gas is under control of the military in a separate storage location away from the capital Tripoli. Without the technology to its application, the threat posed by the gas, is much lower. The U.S. government still seems to be worried. The Wall Street Journal on Thursday quoted government officials in the White House by saying they would not rule out that Gaddafi could try to use the weapon.
 The U.S. probably know where the poison deposited But it is questionable whether it is indeed poison gas containers.
On one of the container such as a signature is seen, which probably signifies "Ejection Seat". It could therefore may act to smaller explosive charges, which are used in ejector seats of fighter jets used.

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