Say it isn't so: Syria's Dictator Continues to Hide Chemical Weapons from the World

By Rob Janicki

Even though Syria has been pressured by foreign powers to give up materials to produce chemical weapons, Israel intelligence believes Syria has retained weapons that are combat-ready.  Continue Reading FreeBeacon

Anyone who believes that Bashar al Asaad has given up all or even most of his chemical weapons, is just fooling themselves.  Obviously the Israeli intelligence community hasn't been lulled into believing that fairytale.

One question that no one seems to have ever asked is simple.  Where did al Asaad get all those chemical weapons and/or the means to create them?  What is only known by several national intelligence agencies is that photo reconnaissance of Iraq prior to the Allied invasion of Iraq, showed large army truck convoys leaving Iraq for Syria.  I seriously doubt these convoys were heading to Syria to sell prayer beads.

If any national intelligence agency has a handle on Syria's current cache of chemical weapons, I'm betting it's Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad.  Right now Mossad is better at intelligent gathering in the Middle East than the CIA and the DIA in the Pentagon.

Israeli intelligence does not believe that ISIS has been able to acquire any of al Asaad's chemical weapons.  The reasoning is simple.  ISIS would just as soon turn these chemical weapons on the Syrian government forces as they would like to use these weapons against the Kurds and the Iraqi Shias.  Al Asaad realizes that ISIS is his enemy as much or more than any other enemy he is facing in Syria.  

Al Asaad is actually using the issues of ISIS to hide his store of chemical weapons and delivery systems.  The world is focused on ISIS, which provides al Asaad the perfect cover to conceal the remaining chemical weapons he has hidden from international inspectors.