Elite Syrian Unit Scatters Chemical Arms Stockpile

“A secretive Syrian military unit at the center of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons program has been moving stocks of poison gases and munitions to as many as 50 sites to make them harder for the U.S. to track,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The movements of chemical weapons by Syria’s elite Unit 450 could complicate any U.S. bombing campaign in Syria over its alleged chemical attacks… It also raises questions about implementation of a Russian proposal that calls for the regime to surrender control of its stockpile.”