adminremarks directed at president Bashar al-Assad, the US president said “the world is watching” and would act if the authorities escalated the conflict through the use of chemical warfare. Intelligence reports suggest sensitive chemical weapons parts have been moved around the country in recent days. This has raised fears that the regime is considering unleashing chemical weapons on opposition forces. Obama told a gathering of nuclear proliferation experts in Washington, “The use of chemical weapons is, and would be, totally unacceptable and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable.”
Obama did not outline what consequences would be taken.
His words echoed a similar warning to Damascus from the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton: “I am not going to telegraph any specifics what we do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people, but suffice to say we are certainly planning to take action if that were to occur.”— guardian.co.uk
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