26 February 2012
Source: Kavkaz Center
The US military has created a plan for military intervention in Syria under the pretext of protecting the objects of chemical weapons, if there is a risk that it will be left without protection after the fall of the Assad regime, reports broadcasting company CNN, which cites UmmaNews.
For intervention in Syria, the US military will use at least 75,000 soldiers. US Department of Defense has developed such plan to ensure that in the case of a request by President Barack Obama to give him the following solution for Syrian crisis.
At the same time, Americans recognize that the occupation of Syria would be "extremely difficult" task, given the scale of the problems that have arisen in this country. This is related by senior US officials on condition of anonymity.
The priority of the US today is security of "Israel" and to prevent emergence of Jihad in Syria.
Currently the US is not yet ready to intervene in the Syrian conflict. Support for al-Assad is not reasonable solution, in the opinion of Americans, because of his overthrow was inevitable.
As a consequence, all the attention of the US switched to the rebels, the Americans are trying to give them full "friendly assistance" in order to place the opposition to them.
But now the ground for establishing in Syria a new puppet regime has not been prepared yet, which means that if a fall of Assad will occur in the near future, the possibility of large lesions in the Syrian jihad becomes a reality.
Syria, according to the US, has about 50 stores, manufacturing sites and laboratories to develop chemical weapons. They are located in particular in the cities of Hama, Homs, Al-Safir, and the port city of Latakia.
US Central Command examines possible options of invasion to Syria and holding of the "operation for the protection of chemical weapons."
As suggested by CNN, in spite of the stated number of 75 000 (almost the same as the current war in Afghanistan), the number of soldiers who may arrive in Syria, will be considerably less.
US officials continue to insist until a diplomatic solution of the Syrian track.
"In terms of a military action to secure a part of the country, that is not currently a policy we are pursuing", said White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday.
The US intelligence community currently believes Syria's weapons sites are secured by the regime.
This was stated by the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, speaking before Congress. However, as an anonymous senior US official said the "nightmare scenario" is what would happen if that situation changes and the regime suddenly fall apart, or the fighting gets to the point that the international community believes military intervention is necessary.
"Syria probably has one of largest programs in the world," said Leonard Specter with the Monterey Institute of International Studies. "It has multiple types of chemical agents."
Specter said the stocks include World War I-era gases like chlorine and phosgene as well as more modern nerve gases.
Speaking before Congress, the Director of National Intelligence Clapper said that in the case of the fall of the Assad regime, chemical weapons could be in the hands of the Mujahideen, "al-Qaeda."
"There would be kind of a vacuum that would lend itself to extremists operating in Syria which is particularly troublesome in light of the large network of chemical warfare, (chemical biological weapons), weapon-storage facilities and other related facilities that there are in Syria. We believe that "Al Qaeda" in Iraq is expanding its presence in Syria", Clapper said.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
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