Syrian conflict: Key sarin ingredients sold by UK firms (Leaked Foreign Office Docs)

[kpete]

Source: BBC

Syrian conflict: Key sarin ingredients sold by UK firms
By Nick Hopkins
Investigations correspondent, BBC Newsnight

Britain sold chemicals and components to Syria that ended up being used in the manufacture of the deadly nerve agent sarin, BBC Newsnight can reveal.

A leaked Foreign Office document says they were supplied in the mid-1980s.

Ministers will confirm within days that UK firms provided the materials and that Syria has admitted they played a role in its chemical weapons programme.

They will say there were no proper regulations at the time, but that tighter rules and controls exist now.

Sarin has been linked to a number of attacks in Syria's bloody three-year conflict.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28212724

[Tetris_Iguana]

1. I thought that's how western foreign policy works...

We set up the conflict, sell them weapons, and feign disgust when they actually use the weapons...

[herding cats]

2. Maybe they're our understudy? nt

[Demeter]

3. Or willing co-conspirator

It's a dirty business, selling Death, but someone has to do it!

[herding cats]

4. Hey, profits are profits.

Globalization isn't just for cheap electronics. Militarism is an easier sell if you can created fear and havoc beforehand.

On edit: /snark Just to be clear.

[DeSwiss]

5. Round and round and round she goes.....

- In the religion of Capitalism it's a Mortal Sin to waste a good war.......