While Washington is planning for the fastest possible destruction of the Syria’s chemical weapons, probably in Albania, the Syrian government has looked into the conditions for transporting such weapons from their storage place to Latakia harbour.

Damascus has submitted a complete file to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in which it describes the safest transportation system in a war zone. It stresses the importance of deploying suitable equipment and thereby requests that the OPCW supply 40 15-ton armoured vehicles for the transportation and a sophisticated transmission system to coordinate the operations.

This request, which didn’t take long to spread through the diplomatic grapevine despite the secret that should surround OPCW activities, did not sit well with the National Syrian Coalition. Indeed, the armed groups, that terrorize Syria and have killed over 100 000 people, can’t continue the war if they are deprived of the two assets that permit them to predict and track the moves the Free Syrian Army: access to NATO satellite images and eavesdropping on government communications.

The existence of the controversy, whatever the outcome, would lead to believe that Washington might drop the ’’rebels’’.

Translation
Alizée Ville