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Syria’s chemical weapons are still secure despite the fact that President Bashar al-Assad has lost control of parts of the country, a senior Israeli defence official said on Sunday.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has moved some of his chemical weapons arsenal in the direction of Lebanon.

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Syrian rebels are closely monitoring the Assad regime’s chemical weapons sites, but don’t have the means to seize and secure them he told The Associated Press.

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Scuds in Syria

The regime’s moves could be seen as an escalation – the US has termed them a “significant escalation” – or as a prelude to the use of chemical weapons, but they could also be seen as acts of desperation.

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A former top general in Syria’s chemical weapons program says he doesn’t doubt for a moment that President Bashar al-Assad will deploy his chemical weapons arsenal as he tries to hold onto power and crush the uprising that started almost two years ago.

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said there are no confirmed reports that Damascus is preparing to use chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian conflict.

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With the strength of Bashar al-Assad’s forces diminishing in Syria’s civil war, global fears are mounting that Syria might unleash chemical weapons to quash the country’s uprising.

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The first is that President Bashar Assad, in a last-ditch effort to save his regime, would order chemical attacks – either as a limited demonstration to the rebels of his willingness to use the internationally banned weapons, or in a large-scale offensive designed to turn the tide of a conflict that already has killed tens of thousands.

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TROOPS have waged fierce assaults on rebels around Syria, focusing on the capital’s outskirts, amid growing concerns that an increasingly desperate regime might resort to chemical weapons.

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Czech Republic’s Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, left, and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, arrive for their press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, Dec.

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