"Una delle preoccupazioni inquietanti sulle menti dei leader nazionali di sicurezza è la possibilità di contrabbando di terroristi negli Stati Uniti. una sorta di guerra batteriologica mortale per creare un cittadino di rischio biologico, la diffusione di un virus contro il quale i nostri corpi non poteva difendere. "

-Jim Bakker in "Prosperità e l'Apocalisse Venuta"

Gli Stati Uniti ritengono che la Siria si sta muovendo parte della più grande riserva al mondo di armi chimiche. I funzionari sono molto preoccupati per il movimento di agente nervino sarin, senape gas e cianuro. Dicono che mostra l'intenzione di usare le armi; altri dicono Assad li tutela. Ministro della Difesa israeliano Ehud Barak ha espresso la sua preoccupazione per il possibile trasferimento di armi non convenzionali ed avanzati dal regime siriano merlata al gruppo terrorista Hezbollah.

Alcuni anche la paura Assad potrebbe voler usare le armi contro i ribelli o civili.

The Assad government has in the past denied having weapons of mass destruction, but now the Syrian government denies their chemical stockpiles are being moved.

Former Israeli Mossad head Danny Yatom, referring to the threat of Hezbollah obtaining chemical weapons, says that Israel could go to war over Syria’s chemical weapons. If President Bashar al-Assad falls, Israel may be forced to go to war in order to prevent this “doomsday” scenario. “We would have to pre-empt it in order to prevent it.”

There are four sites in Syria that produce chemical weapons, Hama, Latakia, Al Safira near Aleppo, and laboratories in Damascus. Storage sites have also been identified. Intelligence sources believe biological weapons are being stored in the Syrian town of Cerin, and that there are several civilian pharmaceutical laboratories capable of producing bio-weapons such as botulism and anthrax.

Al-Qaida organizations known to be operating inside Syria have urged the rebels to seize Syria’s chemical weapons. The conflicts have been occurring all around the areas where the chemical weapons are produced and stored and are subject to break-ins by rebels.

The deadly chemicals have been successfully “weaponized,” meaning that warheads have been mounted with delivery systems for conventional missiles. These missiles are capable of hitting any target inside Israel and Intelligence sources estimate that Syrian backed Hezbollah has an arsenal of more than 40,000 missili.