Syria’s chemical arms match Israel’s nuclear arsenal: defected general

Syria’s chemical arms match Israel’s nuclear arsenal: defected general
"The Syrian regime has a large arsenal of chemical weapons, which matches up to Israel’s nuclear arsenal, the defected former head of Syria's chemical warfare program told Al Arabiya on Monday.

Major-General Adnan Sillu, who defected from the regime earlier this year, was party to top-levels talks about the use of chemical weapons on both rebel fighters and civilians.

Sillu, who once led the army’s chemical weapons training program, said in June that the main storage sites for mustard gas and nerve agents are supposed to be guarded by thousands of Syrian troops but that they would be easily overrun.

“Probably anyone from the Free Syrian Army or any Islamic extremist group could take them over,” he said."