Assad still has ‘hundreds of tonnes’ of chemical weapons in stockpile, former Syrian weapons chief claims

As Syrians and the 'international community' are very well aware...

'Assad still has ‘hundreds of tonnes’ of chemical weapons in stockpile'

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad deceived United Nations inspectors and still has “hundreds of tonnes” of lethal chemicals stockpiled, the country’s former weapons research chief has said.

In 2014, Syria said it had handed over all of its chemical weapons to the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). At the time, Barack Obama said the stockpile had been “100 per cent eliminated”.

But Brigadier-General Zaher al-Sakat has told The Telegraph that Assad’s regime did not declare large amounts of sarin and other toxic weapons.'