Oops, in 2020 US still has 500+ tons of deadly sarin gas, trying to remove them by Dec. 31, 2023. ..."In 1997, the United States ratified the United Nations International Chemical Weapons Convention treaty. By participating in the treaty, the United States agreed to destroy its stockpile of aging chemical weapons--principally mustard agent and nerve agents--by April 29, 2007. However, the final destruction deadline was extended to April 29, 2012."
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9/27/2017, Trump administration official said US won’t be able to destroy all of “its declared chemical weapons stockpile” until “the end of 2023.” -NY Times:
“In Washington, a [Trump] State Department official said that the United States “fully complies” with the treaty and had continued to destroy the remnants of its stockpile, which are stored in Pueblo, Colo., and Richmond, Ky. “The United States remains committed to the complete destruction of its declared chemical weapons stockpile by the end of 2023,” the official said.”…"Russia Destroys Chemical Weapons, and Faults U.S. for Not Doing So,” NY Times, Andrew Higgins
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Added: 4/23/2018, Mr. Trump knows the US still possesses hundreds of tons of chemical weapons, blister and nerve agents that it will have until at least 12/31/2023 in breach of the OPCW chemical treaty. He also knows US has no business in Syria, has violated both domestic and international law by invading and dismembering Syria, continues to criminally occupy one third of Syria, land that is indisputably Syria's, has financed headslicer terrorists with billions of US tax dollars to help US overthrow the Syrian government, that US-made TOW anti-tank missiles were key in creating an Al Qaeda safe haven in Idlib, knows that “al-Qaeda is in effective control of Idlib and retains the capacity to conduct external attacks”--yet warns against a Syrian attack on this enclave," threatened a “massive attack” on Syria’s government if its elected president merely tried to rescue innocent Syrians from the US backed Sunni terrorist Idlib enclave, has “warned” countries that anyone who tries to help Syria rebuild from years of US bombings will be subject to punishment by US sanctions, and US led the largest illegal gun racket in history smuggling billions in weapons to jihadist fighters that flooded into Syria. Further, US refuses to provide humanitarian aid for starving Syrian children unless they reside in terrorist held areas, such as areas governed by Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra. Ignoring US crimes against humanity, Mr. Trump hid behind his bosses' microphone and lied about a supposed chemical weapon attack for which no evidence could possibly have existed since he began bombing before inspectors had even arrived at the site. As cowards do, Trump played the “women and children” card, placing his lie behind images women and children “thrashing in pain and gasping for air” due to (unproven) “crimes of a monster:"
Trump: “The evil and the despicable [supposed] attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air.”
4/13/2018, “U.S. Military Attacks Targets In Syria,“ patch.com, Todd Richissin
““The evil and the despicable [alleged] attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air," the president said in his address from the White House. “These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead….We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents,” he said when announcing the attacks.”…
The first international inspectors sent to Syria to investigate last week’s attack arrived Friday but the U.S.-led attacks began before the team could begin its work. It was unclear whether the investigation would go forward….
“Nothing is certain in these kinds of matters,” Mattis told reporters. “However, we used a little over double the number of weapons [bombs] this year than we used last year [2018].”…
During his [Trump’s] announcement of the [US bombing] attack, the president addressed [slandered] the leaders of Iran and Russia directly.
“To Iran, and to Russia, I ask: What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children?" he asked. “The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.”
While [slanderously] blaming Russia for allowing last week’s [4/7/2018] [alleged] attack, Trump invited him to join the U.S. and its [terrorist] allies in opposition to Assad.
“In 2013, President Putin and his government promised the world that they would guarantee the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons. Assad’s recent attack — and today’s response — are the direct result of Russia’s [alleged] failure to keep that promise,” the president said.”…
[Since Trump began bombing before inspectors had even arrived at the site, there’s obviously no basis for his slander about Russia. Conversely, per NY Times, the Trump administration says it will have “its declared chemical weapons stockpile” until “the end of 2023.”…By continually missing its deadlines, the US has “breached a founding principle of the same treaty cited as a reason to justify an attack on Syria."]
(continuing): “Russia must decide if it will continue down this dark path, or if it will join with civilized nations as a force for stability and peace. Hopefully, someday we’ll get along with Russia, and maybe even Iran–but maybe not.”…
Trump had threatened immediately [without evidence] after the suspected chemical attack that the U.S. would respond, warning Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers that they would have a “big price to pay.”…
Last April [2017], [without evidence] Trump ordered an attack on Syria to punish the government after it was accused of using chemical weapons. The United States fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base in that attack….
Explosions lit up the sky Friday over the Syrian capital of Damascus as President Trump announced on television that the United States and European allies had launched missile strikes against government targets to punish [alleged] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack against civilians”…
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Added: In 2012 US said 523 tons of illegal blister and nerve agents won’t be removed until 2023:
April 17, 2012, “Pentagon Pushes Back Chemical Weapons Disposal Schedule,” nti.org [Nuclear Threat Initiative]
“The agency is assigned to destroy roughly 2,600 tons of mustard agent held at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado and 523 tons of blister and nerve agents at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.…
Construction continues on chemical neutralization plants at the Colorado and Kentucky depots. Anticipated completion of demilitarization operations at Pueblo has now been delayed from 2017 to 2019, while the schedule for finishing off the Blue Grass stockpile has moved from 2021 to 2023.”…
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Added: “By missing its deadlines, the US and other countries have arguably breached a founding principle of the same treaty cited as a reason to justify an attack on Syria.“
9/11/2013, “US struggles show hazards of chemical weapons destruction," UK Guardian, Paul Lewis, Washington
“The US vowed to destroy its cache of chemical weapons by 2012. But tons of nerve agents remain in Colorado and Kentucky – reflecting how complicated the process could prove in Syria”
“Technological and political challenges have resulted in lengthy delays. By missing its deadlines, the US and other countries have arguably breached a founding principle of the same treaty cited as a reason to justify an attack on Syria.
When the convention came into force in 1997, participating countries agreed to destroy their stockpiles within 10 years, with an option to apply for a five-year extension. Five countries – the US, Russia, South Korea, India and Albania – all missed the main 2007 deadline.”…
[Only one of the five has violated both domestic and international law by invading and dismembering Syria, continues to criminally occupy one third of Syria, land that is indisputably Syria's, has financed headslicer terrorists with billions of US tax dollars to help US overthrow the Syrian government, that US-made TOW anti-tank missiles were key in creating an Al Qaeda safe haven in Idlib, knows that “al-Qaeda is in effective control of Idlib and retains the capacity to conduct external attacks”--yet warns against a Syrian attack on this enclave," threatened a “massive attack” on Syria’s government if its elected president merely tried to rescue innocent Syrians from the US backed Sunni terrorist Idlib enclave, has “warned” countries that anyone who tries to help Syria rebuild from years of US bombings will be subject to punishment by US sanctions, and US led the largest illegal gun racket in history smuggling billions in weapons to jihadist fighters that flooded into Syria. Further, US refuses to provide humanitarian aid for starving Syrian children unless they reside in terrorist held areas, such as areas governed by Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra].
(continuing): “Two years ago [2011], the United States, Russia and Libya were granted further extensions to a previously agreed final deadline for destroying their weapons.”…
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Added: Terrorist trivia: “The real issue between the Nusra Front and [ISIS] the Islamic State was that their commanders, former friends from Iraq, were unable to agree on how to share the revenue from the oil fields in eastern Syria that the Nusra Front had conquered….Many of the Nusra Front soldiers told me that over the previous months, their siblings and cousins had been fighting for the Islamic State. The pay was better."
An American man's belief in the US myth that Free Syrian Army, FSA, was “moderate,” caused him to be imprisoned and tortured for two years. Visiting Syria in 2012, Padnos was captured by al Qaeda, managed to escape, begged to be taken to FSA. But FSA delivered him back to Al Qaeda [Nusra] people who first captured him.…10/29/2014, “My Captivity,” NY Times]
Headslicers seek to create Islamic emirates in the US: "The Nusra Front higher-ups were inviting Westerners to the jihad in Syria not so much because they needed more foot soldiers-they didn’t-but because they want to teach the Westerners to take the struggle into every neighborhood and subway station back home….Over time, they said, the jihadists would carve mini-Islamic emirates out of the Western countries.“…NY Times, by American Padnos held captive in Syria for two years by Nusra]
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Added: Oops, in 2020 US still has hundreds of tons of deadly sarin gas:
1/22/2020, “Destruction of Deadly Chemical Agent Sarin Begins at Army Depot in Kentucky," Lexington Herald Leader via Military.com, Lexington, Kentucky
“Full-scale destruction of the deadly chemical agent sarin began last week [Jan. 2020] at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County, officials said Tuesday.
“This is another major milestone toward eliminating the total chemical weapons stockpile in Kentucky,“ said Candace Coyle, Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant site project manager. “With each munition destroyed, we are making Madison and surrounding counties a safer place to live.”
The chemical weapons stockpile at Blue Grass Army Depot originally consisted of approximately 523 tons of chemical agent configured in 155mm projectiles containing H mustard and VX nerve agent, 8-inch projectiles containing sarin, and M55 rockets containing sarin and VX nerve agent. In June 2019, an explosive destruction technology began destroying the mustard stockpile. As of Jan. 10, more than 15 tons of chemical agent [of 523 tons total] have been destroyed in Kentucky, a news release said.
The plant will destroy munitions containing sarin through a two-step process called neutralization followed by a method called supercritical water oxidation. Automated equipment takes the munitions apart and drains the chemical agent. The agent is mixed with water and caustic to produce hydrolysate.
The hydrolysate is then pumped from tanks to reactors where it is subjected to high temperature and pressure. The resulting products are water, carbon dioxide and a salt solution. Remaining metal parts from the munitions are thermally heated to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and can be safely recycled, according to a news release.
“Our highly skilled team is dedicated to the task of safely destroying the chemical munitions,” said Ron Hink, a Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass project manager. “We’ve trained extensively for this stage of the project and we’re confident we can safely complete the mission.”
It is the first time a nerve agent has been destroyed in the United States in about a decade [since 2010], officials said.
Stockpile sites in Colorado and Kentucky account for the last 10% of what was originally a national stockpile of more than 30,000 tons of chemical weapons. Both sites are scheduled to complete destruction of chemical weapons by Dec. 31, 2023, officials said.”
“This article is written by Valarie Honeycutt Spears from The Lexington Herald-Leader and was legally licensed via the Tribune Content Agency through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com.”
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