tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post3191707045429597189..comments2024-02-19T11:10:16.893-08:00Comments on Brown Moses Blog: The Weekend's Developments In The Mint Press SagaBrown Moseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17562126209980810351noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-45686932610565306302013-09-24T09:31:38.523-07:002013-09-24T09:31:38.523-07:00I think this is "Yahya Ababneh" youtube ...I think this is "Yahya Ababneh" youtube channel, he uploaded video of himself in Russia.http://www.youtube.com/user/yahya509?feature=watch<br /><br />And his VK page says "Hometown: ST Petersburg"<br /><br />Bole99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10964890992784036917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-73884912306377046672013-09-24T08:36:22.072-07:002013-09-24T08:36:22.072-07:00From a 1997 report by Wisconsin Project
"Syri...From a 1997 report by Wisconsin Project<br />"Syria's chemical weapon effort has relied heavily on foreign help. Former CIA Director William Webster testified in 1989 that "West European firms were instrumental in supplying the required precursor chemicals and equipment. Without the provision of these key elements, Damascus would not have been able to produce chemical weapons." In the mid 1980s, the German firm Schott Glasswerke sold corrosion-resistant glass laboratory equipment to a Damascus research institute/production plant. While Schott officials insisted they did not know the purpose of the equipment, U.S. officials believe that it was destined to be used in the production of sarin nerve gas." <br />And "In 1990, the DIA reported that Syria had developed the nerve agent Sarin for use in 500kg aerial bombs and Scud B missile warheads. And in 1993, the DIA reported that Syria had developed aerial bombs and missile warheads for chemical agents and that there were two known chemical weapon depots."Don85https://www.blogger.com/profile/15846575091691208882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-6730070416157547432013-09-24T03:45:11.941-07:002013-09-24T03:45:11.941-07:00Snake Oil Baron@ Saudi Arabia,Qatar and Turkey?
T...Snake Oil Baron@ Saudi Arabia,Qatar and Turkey? <br />They are fueling the war from the beginning, they benefit from the war.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425595339548107810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-21222454483835028542013-09-24T03:15:15.399-07:002013-09-24T03:15:15.399-07:00After reading your post I'm now inclined to ag...After reading your post I'm now inclined to agree Don85, or is it Bilbo Baggins?Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13679668319498842469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-83545899127217937972013-09-24T02:54:09.195-07:002013-09-24T02:54:09.195-07:00The same ones who have been benefiting from these ...The same ones who have been benefiting from these endless wars since 9/11; Wall Street and Israel.Greg Baconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08110469235589724960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-78688374782134615812013-09-24T00:05:47.550-07:002013-09-24T00:05:47.550-07:00Greig, correct, BM-14 multiple rocket launcher wea...Greig, correct, BM-14 multiple rocket launcher weapon platforms were manufactured in 1950s-1960s (possibly in early 1970s, but I would doubt that), along with M-14 rocket munitions. M-14-S, the chemical warhead variant on M-14s was never sold outside the Soviet Union.<br /><br />Soviet Union sold 200 BM-14s with M-14 munitions (but not the M-14-S chemical variants - Syria did not have a CW program at that time in any event) to Syria in 1967-1969. Syria decommissioned those and switched to BM-21 "Grad" by 1990.Gleb Bazovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02003842490417903530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-71368055585408520222013-09-23T23:17:59.482-07:002013-09-23T23:17:59.482-07:00I feel very happy after reading this blog .Well do...I feel very happy after reading this blog .Well done<a href="http://www.clearpathadvantage.com/" rel="nofollow">Best ACT Online Course</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399098547331970170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-84165534997449119222013-09-23T19:01:41.785-07:002013-09-23T19:01:41.785-07:00Snake Oil:
How soon we forget the historical time...Snake Oil:<br /><br />How soon we forget the historical timeline. The Ghouta attack came as your heart-gobblers were getting slaughtered! Shawn Reddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11101263931590162200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-80585749024172751472013-09-23T19:00:15.852-07:002013-09-23T19:00:15.852-07:00This is certainly the real question, isn't it?...This is certainly the real question, isn't it? Who has moved, armed, trained, and supplied with provisions to heart-eaters from Chechnya and Libya terrorizing the Syrian masses?Shawn Reddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11101263931590162200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-79978301972911103462013-09-23T17:12:03.577-07:002013-09-23T17:12:03.577-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.DDTeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12478074059973417909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-52353233568604745862013-09-23T17:11:35.311-07:002013-09-23T17:11:35.311-07:00Who benefits from creating a massive disaster in r...Who benefits from creating a massive disaster in rebel held territory at the time when rebels were cutting off more supply lines, risking encirclement of Damascus, *immediately* before Assad's forces mounted a massive rocket attack on the same area.<br /><br />Who could that be? Let's all put our thinking caps on. Who?Snake Oil Baronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02144008436549770560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-53706973203080618632013-09-23T14:15:29.017-07:002013-09-23T14:15:29.017-07:00Old stock Libya > CIA Benghazi > with the sh...Old stock Libya > CIA Benghazi > with the ship Al Entisar to Turkey > Syria.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425595339548107810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-83193962344013879162013-09-23T13:42:05.638-07:002013-09-23T13:42:05.638-07:00I do not know who is responsible, there are no sho...I do not know who is responsible, there are no shortage of possibles. There may be another force in Syria, people who are desperate.<br /><br />One of the problems of the NATO narrative is to reduce other important actors to spectators, they are not sitting idly by on the sidelines. <br /><br />The stakes are high enough for many people not to care too much about how they go about not losing.<br /><br /><br />There are a number of actors in Syria who want the regime to survive and who are in the final analysis looking out for themselves.<br /><br />I know more about church paintings than the ballistics of one thing or another, I have just read this.<br /><br /><br />'They were apparently manufactured in the Soviet Union in 1967 and sold by Moscow to three Arab countries, Yemen, Egypt and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.' Robert Fisk, The Independent, Sunday 22 September 2013<br />Greighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024997380441749707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-46085081525181425332013-09-23T08:22:52.061-07:002013-09-23T08:22:52.061-07:00Greig, you say: "The weapon systems alleged t...Greig, you say: "The weapon systems alleged to have been used are themselves relatively straightforward to make, even the 140mm system is not that much of a challenge." Except that is just silly.<br /><br />- The 140mm unguided munitions is an M-14 shell, specifically designed for BM-14 multiple rocket launcher weapons platform. There is very little doubt about that.<br /><br />- The markings on the M-14 shell discovered by the UN are "4-67-179" - Russian experts have explained what this means, and, specifically, "4th batch", "production year: 1967", "factory 179". Shell produced in Russia. Warhead never found. Russia never sold CW warheads abroad.<br /><br />- Syria did not have a chemical weapons program until the earliest mid-1980s, but more likely 1990. In 1989, Israelis are on the record stating Syria had zero CW capability.<br /><br />- by 1990, Syria completes a conversion to BM-21 "Grad" weapons platforms. BM-14s and M-14s are decommissioned, dismantled, etc.<br /><br />- judging by the timing of the CW program, Syria probably does not start weaponizing CW until into the 1990s - i.e. some time after all M-14s are gone from active use and are either decommissioned and utilized or stored. All logic suggests that Syria never had a reason nor made any CW warhead for M-14 munitions. Any CW warheads for unguided mass-attack munitions were probably made for the BM-21 "Grad" 122mm rockets - very different from M-14s.<br /><br />- the rocket body found by the UN was produced in 1967. In 2013 it is 46 years old. Expected life expectancy of an M-14 rocket (and its 122mm successor) is about 40 years, possibly more in a dry Syrian climate. Chances are, however, that the rocket UN found could have been entirely inoperable.<br /><br />- in any event, this chronology clearly suggests that Syria never was in possession of CW warheads for M-14 munitions.<br /><br />= what did they do? Make an improvised CW warhead? Why M-14 munitions? Where did they even get them? In the darkest part of al Assad's deepest dungeon. In a museum?<br /><br />- Syria has no means, on active duty, of delivering the M-14 munitions. All BM-14s are either in storage or long scrapped. The only times Russia sold BM-14s to Syria (along with M-14 rockets) was 200 of them in 1967-69. All these vehicles and rockets are 44-46 years old by now! They DON'T WORK!<br /><br />- you can try and do whatever you want to such old equipment, but how do you make it fly? And what do you shoot it from? Can't shoot it from a BM-21 "Grad", can you? Different caliber altogether.<br /><br />- this M-14 red herring is an unmitigated embarrassment and disaster for this who circus. It just simply makes no sense.<br /><br />- and all this information is just public data. Perhaps Mr. Higgins has a comment?Gleb Bazovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02003842490417903530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-50601522612517975962013-09-23T07:13:15.290-07:002013-09-23T07:13:15.290-07:00Very little effort has been invested into looking ...Very little effort has been invested into looking at what the pro-regime groups are doing. <br /><br />An analogy for Syria could be Nagorno-Karabakh, in that conflict one side was told to do their vindictive best, the other side was told that to lose is to invite extermination of the entire nation. The latter ethnic group are fighting in Syria .<br /><br />Some of the other groups think the Assad dynasty is too soft. One of which, despite being predominantly or patriotically Arab, also has a range of Slavic, Levantine, French and Caucasian supporters and has generally viewed itself as being at war with Turkey since its creation.<br /><br />Charging a chemical weapon is difficult. However there are people outside of the ranks of the Syrian army with the experience. The weapon systems alleged to have been used are themselves relatively straightforward to make, even the 140mm system is not that much of a challenge. <br /><br />There are probably chemical weapon specialists in Syria, who may not actually be working directly for the regime. The number of Russians and kindred nations with close relatives in Syria would be maybe a quarter of a million. They have always had genocide style wars as a primary study.Greighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024997380441749707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-53939943713155097542013-09-23T05:34:50.253-07:002013-09-23T05:34:50.253-07:00Brown Moses,
I wrote a review of your evidence lin...Brown Moses,<br />I wrote a review of your evidence linking the regime to the 21-Aug attack.<br />http://whoghouta.blogspot.com/2013/09/brown-moses-analysis.html<br />Would love to get your response.<br />Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560859391032391947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-91939520397404777352013-09-23T05:32:37.128-07:002013-09-23T05:32:37.128-07:00(1) "Rodina" not "Rodinia"
(2...(1) "Rodina" not "Rodinia"<br /><br />(2) Why are Russia and China trying desperately to avoid any possibility that UNSC Resolutions would open a backdoor to the use of force then? Would it not have been simpler to sit back and watch the show?<br /><br />(3) Are you suggesting Russian, Chinese or Belarussians are using Syria and the use of CW to goad US into a military conflict in Syria and the wider Middle East? Is there any logic to what you are saying?<br /><br />(4) UMLACA are such poorly-designed munitions specimens, that it is highly unlikely there ever was a blueprint for their production. No aerodynamic quality, no center of gravity balancing, shoddy design and structure. Garbage. Here is a link to FL2-A, used in the Falagh-2 Iranian weapons system, which is often cited on these pages as being a somehow related or linked to the UMLACA:<br />https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B43h4G0cv2VieXBMSFZrQUd4NEk/edit<br />Quite a difference, don't you think? This is a well-made missile in comparison to the UMLACA.<br /><br />(5) Why in the world would North Korea need to help Syria make sarin, or why would Syria pay NK for making sarin? Syria is well equipped on its own to make its own sarin.<br /><br />Let us stop this silliness.Gleb Bazovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02003842490417903530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-69371267077880128022013-09-23T04:24:00.763-07:002013-09-23T04:24:00.763-07:00Can't trust anything written somebody using ps...Can't trust anything written somebody using pseudonyms, can you. What do you think Brown Moses or is it Elliot Higgins? HmmmDon85https://www.blogger.com/profile/15846575091691208882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-159208828587279712013-09-23T03:17:02.728-07:002013-09-23T03:17:02.728-07:00Nobody much, except perhaps Russia, China and Nort...Nobody much, except perhaps Russia, China and North Korea -and possibly Belarus, which has a grudge against both America and Mr Putin's government, if not Russia as motherland (Rodinia). <br /><br />Remember the "East European" experts in the the rocket launch video, some posts below. If not Russian, they almost have to be from Belarus.<br /><br />Interestingly, at least one commentator on this blog says the UCMLA rockets were reverse-engineered from the American M130 by the North Koreans, and are being made by the Syrians to their blue prints. (The tooling is probably quite simple.)<br /><br />It is also possible that North Korea could help Syria make pure Sarin, which seems to have been used. North Korea needs money, but also needs feedback on how its weapons work in practical conditions. There does not seem to be any moral dimension with the third generation leader there at all. ("Clogs to clogs in three generations" as they say in Northern England.)Medawarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05119173935699236303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-85478811726153089902013-09-23T02:17:14.585-07:002013-09-23T02:17:14.585-07:00Cui bono?
Who Benefits From A War Between The West...Cui bono?<br />Who Benefits From A War Between The West, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey And Syria?<br />Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425595339548107810noreply@blogger.com