Obama is blind to this. An Israeli intelligence official warned this week that the Assad regime in Syria did not give up all its chemical weapons during the recent international effort to remove and destroy its arsenal, but rather handed over mostly pre-cursor chemicals and components while retaining a supply of ready-to-use weapons. “What we are saying is that there are a number of questions here that still have to be clarified, still have to be looked at very closely,” the official told Reuters.Meanwhile, the Islamic State (IS, formally ISIS) terror militia launched a major offensive against Kurdish positions in northern Syria on Thursday even as the US Congress authorized President Obama to move forward with plans to arm and train Syrian rebel factions opposed to both the Assad regime and IS. Read More
