西充话:If cornered, Gaddafi could use chemical weapons?[]

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If cornered, Gaddafi could use chemical weapons?

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi defiantly claimed in TV comments aired on the fourth day of UN-backed military strikes on Libya that his country is "ready for battle," while Western leaders Wednesday planned their next steps.

"We will win this battle," footage showed Kadhafi telling supporters at his Bab Al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli that was the target of a coalition missile strike.

Early Wednesday, CNN reported that coalition airstrikes were launched overnight near the city of Misrata, east of Tripoli.

As follows, the gentle desert breeze would blow the deadly smoke from the exploded munitions towards them and suddenly — too late — those fighting for democracy in Libya would realise Gaddafi hadn’t missed at all.

Stuff of nightmares: Gaddafi may become desperate and deranged enough to use chemical weapons on innocent people from his own country

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A Libyan youngster counts high calibre bullets as the opposition organise ammunition at a military base in Benghazi

It could be a sudden choking in their lungs, a searing pain in their eyes, the rapid blistering of their skin.

As they slumped to the ground, blinded, vomiting or coughing up blood, they would die in the desert knowing two things. First, that despite his lies, despite his obfuscation, Gaddafi does still have biological and chemical weapons. Second, that he was now desperate and deranged enough to use them.

For now, a biological or chemical attack by Gaddafi on his own people is still only the stuff of nightmares.

But what is worrying a growing number of Western military and intelligence experts is that it could become a terrifying reality at any moment.

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Armed and very dangerous: Colonel Gaddafi has an arsenal of chemical and biological weapons at his disposal

Gaddafi may have promised to give up such weapons in 2003 as part of the deal that brought the rogue state back into the diplomatic fold, but the chilling fact is he still has enough to kill and maim an awful lot of people.

He still has almost ten tonnes of the chemicals needed to make mustard gas, the near-odourless gas that condemned so many to a lingering and excruciatingly painful death in World War I — and which was certainly one of the ingredients in the lethal, toxic cocktail that Saddam Hussein infamously used to kill up to 5,000 people in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.

He still has 650 tonnes of materials required to produce a range of deadly chemical weapons. Their effects on the human body are probably known only to those who made them and who now store them at the Rabta Chemical Weapons Production Facility — the largest chemical weapons production facility in the developing world.

Libya’s former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil says Gaddafi still has biological weapons — anthrax perhaps; nerve agents such as sarin; possibly even genetically modified smallpox — and that he isn’t afraid to use them.

Anthrax was first used as a weapon by the Japanese army against prisoners of war in the Thirties. If Gaddafi unleashes this deadly disease on his people, the effects could be catastrophic, killing thousands.

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The threat of sarin — a substance so toxic that a drop can kill an adult — is just as worrying.

Known as a ‘nerve-agent’ because it overstimulates the nervous system, exhausting glands and muscles and causing respiratory failure, sarin may be within Gaddafi’s arsenal. In 2004, Libya admitted that stockpiles of sarin have been produced in the country’s Rabta facility.

He also has 1,000 tonnes of ‘yellow cake’ uranium, the first step towards building an atomic bomb.

Libya is thought to be some way from being able to make an atomic bomb — details of its fairly rudimentary nuclear programme were revealed as part of the 2003 deal with Washington, and its relatively small stock of enriched uranium acquired from Pakistan and North Korea were handed to the U.S.

But there’s no shortage of the raw material in this highly unstable region of North Africa. Niger, Libya’s desperately poor neighbour to the south, and reportedly the country of origin for many of Gaddafi’s mercenaries, is one of the top producers of uranium in the world.

The nuclear threat from Libya may be small, but it would be a fool who says it had vanished entirely.

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Missile: Despite claiming that he had destroyed his long range weaponry, pictured here, Gaddafi still has a large number of Scud-B type weapons

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Poorly armed: The Libyan rebels may have access to artilery such as anti-aircraft guns, but they would be of little use against the weapons at Gaddafi's disposal

As part of the diplomatic deal in 2003, when Gaddafi handed over Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), he destroyed his long-range missiles and 3,300 aerial mortar shells designed for delivering mustard gas and chemical agents.

But, despite this being hailed at the time as ‘the real non-proliferation success story of the new millennium’ by President Bush’s assistant, American Secretary of State Paula DeSutter, the destruction and verification process has been slow, tortuous and incomplete.

Gaddafi still has an unknown number of lethal Scud-B missiles and a huge arsenal of conventional artillery that could be adapted relatively easily for use with chemical and biological agents.

This means that not only does he still have WMDs, he also has the means — albeit fairly unsophisticated
— to deploy them.

They certainly wouldn’t be capable of reaching the United Kingdom in 45 minutes, as Saddam Hussein’s WMDs were so controversially claimed to be able to, but they could do terrible damage to Gaddafi’s own people.

The man with his finger on the button, after all, is the same man who once famously claimed: ‘I have created Libya; I can destroy it, too.’

That may be over-stating it somewhat, but he has the capability, for example, of ordering the bombing of the beleaguered city of Benghazi with biological weapons in some desperate, final act of blind revenge. This could easily kill thousands.

The best part of a decade ago, before the 2003 deal with the West, I interviewed Gaddafi’s son Saif, then very much the pro-reform, pro-West, acceptable face of his father’s regime and widely considered the heir apparent.

Even then, though, he was very open about how keenly and quickly Libya wanted to acquire WMDs and how Libya was relying on ‘friendly countries’ (might be North Korea and Iran?) to help them.

But now, with Saif seemingly as deranged as his father — waving machine guns aloft and urging his regime’s supporters to fight to ‘the last bullet’ — the world should be deeply concerned about those ‘friendly countries’.

Who knows what covert deals Gaddafi might have done — despite all his promises otherwise — with these three original members of President Bush’s Axis of Evil.

We’ve gone to war before, of course, on unfounded rumours of WMDs, of hidden arsenals of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons that turn out not to exist, and it’s important that we don’t fall into the same trap again.

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Training: Hundreds of recruits watch and listen as they are shown how to operate an anti-aircraft gun during their first day of military training

But could Britain, the United States and their Western allies really stand by and let Gaddafi bomb his own people with mustard gas or anthrax as it once stood by and let Saddam Hussein launch his genocidal gas attack on the Kurds? I don’t believe so for a moment.

All the military intelligence I’ve picked up indicates that at the first sign of a biological or chemical attack against the Libyans, Western forces will move swiftly and decisively to bring Gaddafi’s regime to an end.

Gaddafi is a desperate and probably deranged man, who has publicly pledged that he will not leave the country or stand down, but would prefer to die ‘a martyr’s death’. The problem is he has the terrifying capability of being able to impose not a martyr’s death, but a cruel, lingering and excruciatingly painful death on thousands of others, too.

The deadly reality is now facing the West coalition forces when their air strikes on Libya under the pretext of protecting civilians ran into the fourth day----If cornered, the desperate Gaddafi could use the chemical weapons at his disposal, which is spine-chilling enough merely at the thought.

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