Assad Still Has 'limited' Chemical Capability: Pentagon
Fakhir Rizvi Published April 19, 2018 | 11:06 PM
The Syrian regime remains able to conduct chemical attacks, though only at a limited level, the Pentagon said Thursday following last week's international cruise missile strikes on chemical targets.
Washington, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Apr, 2018 ) :The Syrian regime remains able to conduct chemical attacks, though only at a limited level, the Pentagon said Thursday following last week's international cruise missile strikes on chemical targets.
General Kenneth McKenzie, director of the US military's Joint Staff, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime retains a "residual" chemical capability at a variety of sites across the country.
"They will have the ability to conduct limited attacks in the future," McKenzie told Pentagon reporters, though he said he had no indications a new attack was being planned. "However as they contemplate the dynamics of conducting those attacks, they have to look over their shoulder and be worried that we are looking at them, and we will have the ability to strike them again should it be necessary.
" On April 13, the US, Britain and France fired more than 100 cruise missiles at three Syrian sites, including a large research center in Damascus, in response to an alleged chemical attack in Douma that killed more than 40 people.
According to satellite imagery displayed by the Pentagon, the three sites were completely destroyed. "We achieved the level of success that we wanted against those three targets," McKenzie said.
"We believe that there was probably some chlorine and possibly sarin at possibly all of the sites." The three-star general added the Syrian regime had now returned to a "state of normalcy." "I don't think we sought to change the strategic balance of the Syria conflict with those strikes. We sought to send a lesson that it's bad practice to gas women and children," McKenzie said.
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