Insight: Assad Chemical Weapons Plans Blocked By Moscow -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Increasingly under pressure by rebels intent on unseating him, Bashar al-Assad has considered using chemical weapons against his enemies but Washington and Moscow have formed an unlikely alliance to force him to abandon such plans.
Analysts and diplomats across the region and beyond do not doubt that the Assad government, recoiling from a devastating attack on its security establishment last week and struggling to contain rebel offensives across Syria, is capable of using agents such as Sarin gas if its survival is at stake.
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My Comment: Both Russia and the U.S. are not confirming that they are working together to insure that chemical/biological weapons are not used in Syria's civil war .... but it would not surprise me if they are cooperating on this one issue. For the U.S., if Assad uses chemical weapons it would impact the entire region .... specifically on their allies. For Russia .... the political embarrassment to Putin would be horrific, raising questions on him conducting a foreign policy that also includes genocide. Not surprisingly .... some in Assad's circle are now beginning to understand how dangerous going down this road is.
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