WALL STREET JOURNAL: …Few American or European diplomats are confident Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will fully declare the extent of his government’s weapons stockpile, given Damascus’s track record of deceiving the international community.
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog is still seeking Syria’s cooperation in verifying evidence it was covertly developing nuclear weapons before Israeli jets destroyed a plutonium-producing reactor on the Euphrates River in 2007. Mr. Assad has repeatedly denied having such a secret program.
Syria’s chemical-weapons arsenal has been developed and stored in at least eight sites across the Arab country. Many of the missiles and artillery pieces are believed to have been moved since civil war broke out in 2011, according to current and former U.S. officials… (more)
