Western air strikes have done little to degrade President Assad’s arsenal and his regime still has the capabilities of inflicting major damage, Syria’s former chemical weapons chief has told the Telegraph.
Brigadier-General Zaher al-Sakat, who served as head of chemical warfare in the powerful 5th Division of the military until he defected in 2013, said the most strategic sites were not hit in Saturday’s strikes.
The Pentagon had said that it believed the raids "attacked the heart of the Syrian chemical weapons program," significantly hampering the government’s ability to use such weapons again.
But the extent of the damage was questioned on Sunday by Gen Sakat, as well as other defectors from…
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