I would guess his overseas trip snaffu and not releasing his taxs are hurting him bad.

Syria has begun moving its chemical weapons stockpile out of storage, U.S. warns
Syria has undeclared arsenals of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas, cyanide
U.S. officials fear Assad may want to use weapons against rebels or civilians
Others believe he is trying to safeguard stockpile from his opponents

By Graham Smith
PUBLISHED: 09:58 EST, 13 July 2012 | UPDATED: 11:37 EST, 13 July 2012
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Syria has started to move part of its chemical weapons arsenal out of storage facilities, according to U.S. officials.

The country's undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide have long worried the U.S. officials and its allies in the region, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Western nations have looked for signs amid the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad's government of any change in the location of those weapons, believed to be the world's largest stockpile


American officials are divided on the reason for moving the arsenal.
Some fear Assad may want to use the weapons against rebels or civilians, while others said perhaps he is trying to safeguard them from his opponents.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, travelling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Phnom Penh, said: 'We repeatedly made it clear that the Syrian government has a responsibility to safeguard its stockpiles of chemical weapons.'
She added that 'the international community will hold accountable any Syrian officials who fail to meet that obligation'.

President Bashar al-Assad's undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide have long worried the U.S. and its allies in the region
The Syrian government denied chemical stockpiles have been moved, the Journal said.
Syria is one of eight states - along with Israel and nearby Egypt - that have not joined the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, which means the world's chemical weapons watchdog has no jurisdiction to intervene there.

The Assad government has in the past denied having weapons of mass destruction.
The development comes a day after more than 250 Syrians were reportedly killed after a village was shelled and stormed by pro-government forces.
The massacre in the Sunni Muslim village Taramseh, Hama province, would be the worst yet since a rebellion against the rule of Assad began 17 months ago.

Civilians were allegedly killed 'execution-style' with shots to the head while others were shelled by tanks and helicopter gunships as their homes were burned down.

The Revolution Leadership Council of Hama said Taramseh was subjected to a barrage before pro-government Alawite militiamen swept in and killed victims one-by-one.
There were reports of bodies scattered in the surrounding fields, rivers and houses, with around 60 corpses were taken to a mosque.
Fadi Sameh, an opposition activist from Taramseh, left the village before the killings but was in touch with residents.
He said: ‘It appears that Alawite militiamen from surrounding villages descended on Taramseh after its rebel defenders pulled out, and started killing the people.
‘Every family in the town seems to have members killed. We have names of men, women and children from countless families


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-U-S-warns.html

Haven't we seen this same movie before say about 10 years ago!

We have. Thousands of Kurds and Iranians were wiped out by your non existant WMDs.

POOR MR. Hand he not only can't think he gets his time mixed up. That gas attack happened before the first Gulf war and Saddam had to give up stock piles to U.N. Insp. But you probably can't follow such complex thoughts and time lines. LOL

Hahaha sure he gave it up and found Jesus?

History's Largest WMD Trial Begins

Ten of the captured Al-Qaida terrorists on trial in Jordan for attempting to explode roughly 20 tons of chemical weapons with explosives. Authorities captured the weapons coming into Jordan through Syria.
The most dangerous terrorist plot ever foiled and brought to trial is being prosecuted right now in Jorddan. Al-Jayouzi, a follower of Al-Zarqawi, is on trial for planning and attempting to execute a Chemical Weapons attack in Jordan that could have killed as many as 80,000 civilians:

The chemicals are believed to be VX nerve gas. There was 20 tons of the weapons and explosives captured coming into Jordan from Syria. Syria doesn’t make VX. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq did.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2005/06/historys-largest-wmd-trial-begins/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2005/06/historys-largest-wmd-trial-begins/




Pictures of the captured chemical weapons aired on Jordanian television last year.

Al- Jayouzi received $170,000 for the suicide attack, the first large-scale chemical weapons attack by Al-Qaida:

Al-Jayousi said he received about $170,000 from al-Zarqawi to finance the plot and used part of it to buy 20 tons of chemicals. He did not identify the chemicals, but said they “were enough for all the operations in the Jordanian arena.”

Images of what the commentator said were vans filled with blue jugs of chemical explosives were included in the broadcast.

Hussein, the car mechanic, said he met al-Jayousi in 1999 but did not clearly say when the terror plans were laid out.

The bearded Hussein, looking anxious, said al-Jayousi told him the aim was “carrying out the first suicide attack to be launched by Al Qaeda using chemicals” and “striking at Jordan, its Hashemite (royal family) and launching war on the Crusaders and nonbelievers.


So what else is astounding about this case?

The chemicals are believed to be VX nerve gas. There was 20 tons of the weapons and explosives captured coming into Jordan from Syria. Syria doesn’t make VX. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq did.

The defendants also had oxygen, sulfuric acid and nitroglycerin. These are highly combustible substances which the defendants had planned to use to cause explosions that would have dispersed the toxic chemicals.


Al-Qaida Terrorist Az
mi Al-Jayouzi is currently on trial in Jordan. During testimony last month Al-Jayouzi threw his shoes at prosecutors when the death of his comrades during a fire fight was discussed. He was captured during the fighting along with a truck load of chemical weapons.

Al-Jayouzi made demands of the court in the first hearing last year:

“I and the other defendants don’t want to speak to you until you heed our demands to permit our families to visit us and allow us to join the cellblocks of political prisoners,” al-Jayousi told Colonel Fawaz Buqour, president of the State Security Court.

Buqour responded: “We’ll see.” Military prosecutors said the defendants were confined to solitary confinement in an undisclosed Jordanian prison.

“Go to hell!,” al-Jayousi shouted, sporting a beard and standing in the dock with the eight other defendants, most of them in dark blue prison uniforms and chained at the ankle.


The Powerline men helped break the story last year.

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs may have been the first to pick up on the story last year with his “Car Bombs Found in Jordan Post” post followed by his “Jordan was Chemical Bomb Target” posting.

Pamela, aka “Atlas” broke the trial story yesterday at Jackson’s Junction and Instapundit noticed.

And, here is a previous post on the “Jordan Al-Qaida WMD Story” here.

what would happen if GW and Cheney showed up for their trials?

I suppose they would have said I told ya so?