The Government was accused of "breathtaking laxity" in its arms controls last night after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will today be asked by MPs to explain why a British company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six months in 2012 while Syria's civil war was raging and concern was rife that the regime could use chemical weapons on its own people. The disclosure of the licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which can both be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in last month's atrocity in Damascus.
Comment: A misleading story aimed at firmly fixing in the reader's mind the notion the Syria is actively seeking to manufacture and use chemical weapons, while the largely ignoring the fact that no chemicals were actually exported. But, never mind that nothing happened and that such 'dual-use chemicals' are used the world over (for treating water, or in this case for finishing aluminium shower enclosures and window frames as we read below), this non-event can still be used to ramp up the war propaganda.
Comment: So the original story was that Israel denied having any knowledge about these alleged missiles being launched.
Israel then later claimed responsibility for firing the two 'test' rockets.
Since RT first published this article on 3 September, they updated it with new and completely contradictory information on 4 September: So now the Israelis have claimed they fired at least one of these missiles from a fighter jet, (which may or may not have been done with US knowledge or assistance) although that still leaves unexplained the Russian statement that both missiles were launched from the sea... Stay tuned for more madness from the Zionists...